Characters and universe too overflown

Characters and universe too overflown

Divergent (Paperback)

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I ended up cracking, once again, to the new phenomenon of children's literature. And once again I am not convinced, even if it is not bad, but it's not nearly as much as I dared to hope. I did not come away really conquered by this reading and I start to tell me that I must not simply love dystopias ... But what disturbed me most in this novel is above all very flat style and very hollow characters.

Before starting, I announce that I read the novel in English, so I apologize in advance if I do not use the right names factions or characters. I will not return to the horrible French blankets, I think everyone has suffered enough, but I did not hesitate long before heading to the VO. Besides, it was an easy read, with an affordable vocabulary, the kind you see in college. Do not hesitate to turn to the original version too. But let's go to the story.

In a more or less near future, the world is divided into five factions: the Altruistic, the Intrepid, the Franks, the Gentiles and scholars. I state again that this is not necessarily the names you find in the French translation (edict: Right, well by copying the French summary above my criticism, I could see the names given to French factions, finally !) Each faction has a specific role, and you can have access to certain professions according to his faction. Those who govern are disinterested and honest dealing with justice, for example.

Beatice or Tris, heroin, lives in an altruistic family is struggling to always put others before herself. It must be said that the simple act of looking in a mirror is considered an act of selfishness, I will not say good laugh like that at home. Until the year of sixteen, all young people living with their parents in the faction of the latter. Then he passed a test in the form of simulation reveal their supposed which faction they really belong. And finally, everyone chooses his new faction during a ceremony. But in Tris, not everything goes as planned and the test does not tell to which faction it is made: it is Divergent, it may belong to three of the five factions. She then discovers that being Divergent is rare and especially dangerous, but it does not know more at first, and we. He has yet to make a choice and to try by all means to adapt to his new life while hiding who she really is.

The idea was not bad, as often in the dystopias that I read. But Tris I was unfriendly from the start. I can not tell you without giving you the faction they choose at the ceremony, but I found his character hollow, without any depth. The novel is written in first person, we share what she thinks of the people around him and is an intransigence that disturbed me a lot. Without saying too much, it considers, for example, very severe way the people show a temporary weakness, while they have physically strong air. I could not help but tell me a lot of readers would have been considered weak in the eyes of the heroine. So zero identification with the main character ...

Also, and there it is strictly personal, I maaaaarre of these girls of sixteen are "not ready" in Aaaaaall novels for young people that I read recently. Can we zap the inane conversation with the understanding boyfriend, please? We are obliged to go through it with each new book in which a romance begin? It would be nice that American writers of the genre stop to share their beliefs as çaaaaaaaallez I stop. But now, the young Tris which never saw public displays of affections and is super uncomfortable before that becomes semi naughty before calm things down, it's heavy.

So I did not appreciate Tris, and it was a handicap because it is in his mind throughout the book. Fortunately, toward the end of the novel it becomes less clear and the events that occur in the few last fifty pages will surely change too, to grow and mature. This promises a more interesting result. I say this to reassure me a little, because I took a box containing three volumes ...

The secondary characters are all more interested than me Tris. His mother, especially. But not Four. Oh no, I just realized that he should be called Four French, ahahahaha! Sorry. So Four did not like either. Because it is the eternal stereotype of perfect guy too strong and too good which the heroine falls in love and that I support them more. I can not stand these romances phoned in children's literature, these romances anything but credible that have no depth. Can it not be interested in the ugly but funny guy for once, or even anyone? But at least we have not got a love triangle, that's something.

Also, one does not really know what it is the world itself, the time is not specified, it is not clear what led to the creation of factions, how or who .. . For now anyway, but I do not think that point will be cleared. I would have liked a more background excavated, a History with a capital H.

I am very critical but I have not hated too. The chapters are short novels and reads very quickly, because despite everything I wanted to see where we were going. Divergent of these novels that have the potential, and I do not know, those that I want to read more, even if I have not had such a good time than that. I just hope the result will be less silly and that the character of Tris will evolve positively, it will be something.

So I have not been conquered by Divergent, but I'll still read the following volumes shortly. Feel free to make your own opinion on the novel, I repeat that I have trouble with the dystopian genre that does not please me more than that.

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