Sunday, March 17, 2013

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

In the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost the protagonist represents a man stuck between two decisions. It seems like he has come to a cross road in life and  is confused on which road to take and doesn't know what is to come next when he chooses one road.The author wants to tell us that life is hard and sometimes we have are stuck between two decisions.
In the first stanza " Two roads diverged in yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both" shows that the speaker has came across the two decisions and doesn't know what road to take because he can only take one road. In the third stanza " Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted I should ever come back" shows that the speaker has already chose a road because he doubts if he should ever come back and he doesn't know what is going to happen in the future if he keeps on traveling in this path. In the last stanza " Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by" shows that the speaker chose the right path and he doesn't want to go back to the two diverged roads.
My claim connects to me because growing up you sometimes get stuck in between two decisions and it may be hard to choose one. My claim also connects to teenagers and humanity because everyone has to make a tough decisions in life like who may be the right person for you and who is actually your friend.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Insurgent by Veronica Roth part 2

    
     A lot has happened from where I left off on the first response. I learned that the Erudite want to know what is behind the gates outside of Chicago. Beatrice sacrificed herself to Jeannie, an Erudite scientist who created all of the simulations because she didn't want anyone dying anymore. The Dauntless have allied with the fractionless and have planned an attack on the Erudite headquarters. From what I have read so far is that Beatrice is learning how to trust people now but she is still kind of paranoid about trusting the fractionlesss.
    When she told Christina that she was going to go to the Erudite headquarters she had to trust her not to tell Tobias because Christina just forgave Beatrice for killing her boyfriend Will during the simulation attack in the Abnegation. It also showed that she starting to trust people when she said I love you to Tobias because he is the only family she has left because her brother became a traitor. Trusting Marcus, Tobias' father in a mission to find out what is outside of the gates and to send the simulation data to all of the fractions so the Erudite wouldn't be able to find it even if they don't succeed on killing Jeannie.
   Insurgent is a great book but I think that it isn't as good as the first book Divergent because it isn't as detailed and it doesn't have as much action as the first one. The second book is more about how Beatrice matures and her love life with Tobias.

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

    The book Insurgent is the sequel to the book Divergent. In the end of the first book Divergent the Erudite had injected a stimulation in to the Dauntless to kill the Abnegation, who are holding secret information that the Erudite wanted to know. Because Beatrice is Divergent, she was able to manipulate the stimulation and try to stop the stimulation at the Dauntless headquarters. Once she stopped the stimulation Beatrice, Tobias, Caleb, and Tobias' father travel to the Amity in search for help. The book Insurgent is about the aftermath of the war and the adventures Beatrice trying to take over the Erudite.
    Through out the the books Beatrice has matured a lot. In the first book she was this shy, little, and now she is involved in a war. Before she was scared of weapons and she didn't know who she was, but now she not afraid of firing a gun into people's heads and seeking revenge on the Erudite who killed her parents and her old fraction. This shows that she matured internally because now she knows who she really is and why she chose Dauntless.
    So far in the book that I have read is  that Beatrice feels guilty for killing one of her best friends and her friends boyfriend and her relation with Tobias. I predict that the fraction less are going to play a big part in the war because they want to make a society with no fractions and they have the biggest group of divergent people.