Trevor HumeSignature AssignmentDystopian Hero

Who is the dystopian hero? Tris is the hero of this book. She is a young female with a

special ability to think out side the norm and overcome any obstacle put in her way. She is unsure of what is going to happen but relies on her instinct, faith and passion to do right for the people. As many dystopian heroes she faces love distractions, leaving her family and feeling alone, desperately looking for a place to belong. She is fearful of her status as divergent because of the risk to her life it brings but learns to use it to better her life and expose government corruption.

What goes through her head She is a quiet and

humble girl who is wanting to do right but doesn’t know how.

She feels she doesn’t fit in in her society that she has grown up in and wants to get out but is scared of leaving her family.

She doesn’t know what will happen if she goes and tries something new. If she fails at it because she doesn’t want to become factionless.

What makes her special

When the day came when she would choose her faction, she went through the aptitude test.

The test consisted of scenarios testing her instincts and ability to solve them.

She had a little of the dauntless, erudite, and abnegation factions in her based on the outcome of her score which is uncommon and called divergent.

Tris rising to the top She chose to protect

people and stop the corruption that most people were unaware of. Because of her divergent thought process she was able to question authority and see societal issues where others could not or would not.

She chose the faction Dauntless. She went through intense training and pushed herself to become the hero she became through trials of the body.

Her love trial Tris faces the

indecisiveness of her heart as she chooses to love Four, her superior, and stay focused on being found out as a divergent. She must also focus on her love for her family and the questions she has about why they cannot stay together even thought she has chosen a different faction. Why must she give up her biological family for a new family she barely knows?

The reward

Tris and Four work together with help from Tris family in Abnegation and other Dauntless who see through the corruption to overthrow the Erudite leader trying to overthrow the current government to become a dictator. Tris and Four escape together and are finally a free couple yet still on the run and stop a violent revolution. She loses her family in the battle but gains the satisfaction of knowing her worth and the fact that she never gave up on them. She chose humanity, and family over faction and demand.

What caused it to happen? Free will was traded for the security

of belonging to a faction. As long as you could do one job and cater to one part of your personality without question you were allowed to live and carry on in the society.

How to control the community One group had food, one group

has government control, one group has knowledge, one group has the honesty, and one group all the guns they all rely on one another but are also at each others mercy. As we see in the story, the Erudite’s try to force their way into power by controlling the Dauntless and attacking those unable to defend themselves. Relinquishing our right to choice and self reliance will lead to government dependence and allow them to control us.

Compared to our society In our society, its becoming bigger and bigger so more and

more problems are occurring. One way that the government has changed is that it has gotten bigger too. If we can’t make our society work then we would be putting ourselves in that situation where the government will step in and tell us what we can and cannot do and they will decide how we live our live just like in the book. Trading free will for “security”.

Why It happened People will not stand by while they are

suppressed and put down and sooner or later the power will come back to the people and they will be free again through a leader like Tris or through rebellion, uprising, or through hopeful democratic election and order.