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=Wiki Project Phase 2=

=Wiki Post #1: Introduction and Current Events Article:=




 * Synopsis of Allegiant, Veronica Roth**

Allegiant is the final book to the trilogy which started with Divergent and surrounds a young adult Tris Prior who lives in a society closed off from the rest of the world. Insurgent ended with a big twist that revealed that the society Tris lives in is a part of `a societal experiment where everything has been staged to see if this system will work to save the rest of humanity. Now Tris' world is upside down as the woman talking on the tape reveals to have the same last name as Tris. This was foreshadowed in Divergent when Tris notices that the doors lock the other way, for the outside in. However this information gives Tris some new hope to maybe be able to leave this place full of death, corruption, and bad memories, and start a new life beyond the fences. Tris must now battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature—and of herself—while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love. Allegiant is told from both Tris and Tobias' perspective to broaden the story line and help the reader get a better sense of the whole novel. Topics discussed in this story relate to Divergent and Insurgent, but being titled Allegiant, do focus in more on the idea of being loyal to a particular cause or person. Another main theme in this novel is sacrifice, as i know from prior knowledge that Tris ends up dying. That makes me wonder where this story will go for Tris have ended up dead, and how Tobias will react and whether or not peace will ever be restored to this society.

[|A Father's Sacrifice]

This tragic article is about a father who moved his disabled son out of the way of a moving vehicle and got hit and died instead. Although sad and tragic, the gesture is beautiful as his family praised him for his heroic move that would have saved them a lot more heartache if the son had died instead. The daughter states in the article that " My dad died doing the thing he loved the most – he was walking with my brother Garry down the coast road towards Ulverston. My dad was a loyal Ulverstonian who cared for a great deal of people over his life in the wonderful town he loved." This article emphasizes that even though death is very much a tragedy, when someone willingly sacrifices themselves to protect the people they love, it's a beautiful gesture. I chose to connect this article to Allegiant in the aspect of Tris' sacrifice at the end. It is widely seen as a controversial ending because the main character dies, but i think the audience should view it the way that the daughter did in the article. Even though it's sad that she sacrificed herself for Caleb, her brother that had betrayed her, and left Tobias heartbroken, she still died as, the divergent, the insurgent, the allegiant, and most importantly as Tris.

Wiki Post #2: Passage 1:

 * Passage Context:** In the following passage, Tris is now imprisoned under Evelyn's rule as a traitor, waiting to be given a trial. Since Jeanine was killed by Tori in Insurgent, Evelyn took it upon herself to take over the society and destroy all the factions and have everyone be factionless. She is uninterested by the big reveal and doesn't care to go find the people that "put" her there. Currently, Tris is under the "truth" serum since Evelyn doesn't know that it doesn't work on her, and is being questioned to see if she is a true traitor.




 * 1) I chose this passage because i thought it was heavy with commentary on our society today. Roth reveals her real sentiments on the wars and power hungry tyrants that rule, and i love that. It reminded me a lot of the events happening in the middle east currently. It seems like the way it works is that one tyrant goes and another tyrant really does rise again and not change anything and we fall into a poor cycle. I think that recent events that are occurring all over the world are what inspired this text, and i think it's good that this novel is geared toward the younger generation because many young people are ignorant to a lot of the things that occur in the world.
 * 2) The purpose of this passage is to convey a commentary on the war ridden war we live in now. This is done by juxtaposition as the author connects their society with what ours has become through the line "From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now." And this is evidently true as seen in Egypt a few years back; one tyrant got overthrown, and another rose to power. Governments are so corrupt nowadays that the only people that ever do get into power are those that have a frenzy for both money and power. That's what our society is run on, who can get the most power and money, and Roth is criticizing it through this passage. This aspect is what makes the passage connect the most to the second question regarding what future depictions reveal about present day.
 * 3) In conclusion, i chose this passage because i think contextually, it summarizes where the book is, and where it's headed. There is a lot of chaos going on among the world that juxtaposes into our society as well. Another line that stuck out to me from this passage was how Evelyn has them trapped in the city because i think it highlights Tris and everyone else's yearning for freedom so well. Since established authorities only go from one tyrant to another, this leaves me wondering what Roth is suggesting that the reader takes from this and does. What's the true message behind allegiant other than the fact that the government is corrupt.

Wiki Post #3: Passage #2:

 * Passage Context:** This passage isn't that far away from the last one, but i felt it was important as it was the first time we hear of a rebellion group called the "allegiant". Tobias is trying to get on Evelyn's good graces and in doing so he has lied to her and told her that he has broken up with Tris. They are now in a room discussing plans to leave the city, and other people's plans to leave as well.




 * 1) I thought this passage was extremely important, since it was the first connection to the title of the story, Allegiant. I think the name of the group is phenomenal since they call themselves allegiant because they are allied with the original purpose of the city. But what i find a bit troubling is that they don't really know who they're dealing with or allying with; what if they can't be trusted? It's a dangerous risk, but interesting since they are willing to take it. I think it's very strange that the founders of this society wanted people to only come out of the city once there was a large number of divergent since that would've never happened because they kept killing of the divergent. That makes me wonder if people knew about this and wanted to keep the society as it is, so then decided to kill of the divergent instead of opening the doors of the city to the scary unknown. I love the way that freedom is talked about in this passage from Tobias' perspective. My favorite line is the one about how "Some people will always fear change. But... can't indulge in them." because it highlights a very important aspect about people and change. That even though citizens are miserable in a state that they live in, their fear of change will make them conformists, and that's what Roth is commenting on.
 * 2) The obvious purpose to this passage is to introduce a new dimension of this story, a rebellion group called the "allegiant", but digging deeper, the purpose is also to introduce the concept of liberation and freedom. I think that throughout this story, freedom is going to be a path that every individual character is going to pursue, and it's interesting to now see Tobias' take on it. In Insurgent, the factionless were portrayed as being the definition of free, not constricted to a faction and being able to express any idea they want. But the way that Tobias says it in this passage, it's as if being factionless is as it was in Divergent; someone lost and not truly liberated at all. I think that Roth through the introduction of a new development in this story is conveying that freedom is to be attained on a self-journey, and that in this novel, everyone's freedom will be different from somebody else's.
 * 3) I think this passage connects to the first question of what it means to be human in the sense of freedom and liberation. For example, the allegiant think that freedom will be given to them once they ally themselves with the founders of their society and break free of this faction framed city. But, are the people who put you in there in the first place really to be trusted in the sense that you'll just gain freedom like that. Also, Evelyn and her followers believe that freedom is being unbound to a certain faction and being free. I think that Roth is trying to insinuate that freedom is being like the divergent, not being any faction, but embodying all the factions. I think the line about how they have been living in factions all along is very important and is Roth's way of commenting on how we don't even realize that we currently live in factions. Instead, these factions are called social classes and restrict us to a certain income and way of life, instead of a certain characteristic and way of life. I love Tobias' use of the phrase "true freedom" and i am very curious as to see where his path towards freedom takes him.

Wiki Post #4: Passage #3:

 * Passage Context:** A lot has happened in this story since the last passage, and i have to say this story is more twisted than the last two surrounding government control and inequality especially. So Tobias, Tris, Christina, Cara, Uriah, Tori, Peter, and Caleb escape the city to find the bureau, and during this escape Tori tragically dies. They find out that the people that were divergent and disappeared from the society never actually died, including Tori's brother. Here they find out the truth about their society and how it was formed because people believed that the reason violence existed was because of "bad genes" so the government created their society to correct that. In an attempt to correct people's genes, the governement took it upon themselves to create cities as experiments all across the US. This was so that in turn, they could create enough divergent, (genetically pure specimen) to fix the damage done after the Purity War. In the following passage, Tris and Tobias have been tested for true divergence, but the results indicated that only Tris was pure, and that Tobias was genetically damaged. Nita (a genetically damaged) has took it upon herself to start a rebellion against the fringe (the government), tired of all the inequality and injustice in the society.


 * 1) This story has twisted and enfolded into so many more dimensions, i didn't even think were possible! While the Divergent were seen as a threat to the system, it is now clear that they are necessary as pawns to just correct the damage done by the government after the Purity War. It seems like all dystopian novels have one thing in common, that things are left reckless after a huge war and need to be corrected by a rebellion, seen to be forming now by the people considered to be genetically damaged. Roth is commenting on so much more than just government control and resistance, now she is tackling the inequality that was seen in Divergent with the factionless. I thought that having Tobias not be a pure divergent was a plot twist in itself, now i'm wondering if Tris will go on with the rebellion or not. The character development is immense in this novel, i must note that.
 * 2) The purpose of this passage was to introduce the concept of the rebellion from a character that is genetically damaged and highlight the inequality faced by people that are regarded as imperfect. That ties in directly with social commentary done by Roth on inequality in America faced by minorities. This is seen as Nita describes that the "genetically damaged" are "... poorer, more likely to be convicted of crimes, less likely to be hired for good jobs.." etc. I automatically connected this to minorities vs. whites, where there is 1% of the population that is white supremacists in our government who think they're of the pure breed, and the rest of the 99% "genetically damaged" living off of minimum wage and struggling to make ends meet. Roth uses these parallels to drive the message of not only this passage, but the story in general. The rebellion that Nita is forming reminded me a lot of the occupy wall st movement, that seemed to suddenly just disappear after it made headlines. We're still poor, so where did all the anger go? No, we were given other issues to distract us like gay rights, so we do not worry about the real issues in our government.
 * 3) I think that this passage connects with the last two questions the most, regarding what our depictions of the future reveal about the present, and how language and images can manipulate our minds. Evidently as previously mentioned, Roth uses this whole scenario of genetically imperfect people to parallel and comment on society in the US, and how we quietly live among inequality without ever saying anything. Roth uses this rebellion to convey that we must rise above the inequality because even though it says we're equal on paper, the injustice is evident everywhere else. It connects to the last question in the sense that language from the government can be seen as successful manipulation because for so long we sit in silence. I don't think Roth want her reader's to make a rebellion, but at least become more aware of how manipulative the government can be, or who knows? We could end up as props to correct the damage that they have done through manipulation and violence and war. This passage sums up the story's drive toward equality and freedom, perfectly, a theme Roth has portrayed throughout the whole trilogy.

Wiki Post #5: Passage #4:
===“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. ===
 * Passage Context:** In the story now, the rebellion has gone underway, and after Nita's attack has failed (killing Uriah), Tris is angry with Tobias. But, after she realizes that the bureau are responsible for all the serums and the deaths of the people she loves she reconciles with Tobias and she begins to devise a plan to save her city and fix the Bureau's flawed ideals. The group decides to break into the Weapons Lab and use the memory serum to wipe the memories of the Bureau to prevent any further discrimination and twisted thinking based on 'genetic damage'. The Lab, however, is guarded by a fatal dose of the death serum, rendering it a suicide mission. Caleb out of guilt has decided that he will sacrifice himself to go into the Bureau and expose himself to the death serum in hopes that Tris will forgive him. In the following passage Tris is prepping herself for this plan to go down, which will ultimately result in her sacrifice and death.

===Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. ===

That is the sort of bravery I must have now.”

 * 1) I chose this passage because i think that it summarizes Tris' character development so well. Throughout the whole trilogy we have seen Tris grow so much, to the point where i understand wholly why she decided to courageously sacrifice herself. At first, before reading the book, i knew that Tris was going to die, but was angry at Roth for killing off the main character. But now that i have read the events that have led up to Tris' sacrifice, i have accepted it as a mandatory act of courage, something that needed to be done to save the greater good of humanity from the bureau. That is where her courage connects to this passage which directly describes her bravery, and explanation of what it is personally to her, which is so inspiring in my opinion. The explanation of how bravery doesn't always necessarily mean in dire situations but can also be deciding everyday that you want a better life, and makes it easier for the reader to connect.
 * 2) The purpose of this passage is to convey to the audience that bravery is necessary to keep on living towards a better life and resisting injustice and inequality that many people just end up conforming or accepting to. The author drives this point by using her diction very smartly and being descriptive and providing a lot of different examples of how to be brave. Bravery and courage are not only confined to moments where you sacrifice yourself, even though Tris conveyed the greatest bravery of all by completing this task; bravery can also be attained in normal everyday tasks. Just getting up every morning and striving for a better life is a form of bravery, and that is what i believe to be the message that Roth is conveying through this passage. Bravery and courage are qualities that have grown with Tris throughout this story and have made her a character to look up to, but also a character that is relatable, as seen in this passage. "...gritting your teeth through pain" is step towards attaining your own freedom and Roth wants the reader to be aware of that.
 * 3) I think this passage connects the first main essential question the most, on what it means to be human. In this novel, humanity and identity are discussed widely, along with government control and inequality. The government control and inequality are seen a lot more in the this third book Allegiant with the concept of the Bureau and the genetically damaged people that are really just average citizens. But through these other concepts, are how bravery, courage, sacrifice, and the true meaning of being human are discussed. Roth reveals both the good and bad in society, but reveals that freedom is what truly makes us human. Our bravery is what need to attain that freedom, and it's interesting to see how every character got their freedom. Tris got her freedom through the death that she's been recklessly asking for since the beginning, but Tris died truly free. As i mentioned before which connects to my previous post Tris got to die as a divergent, the insurgent, an allegiant-- as Tris, and that's what makes this story so much more beautiful, because it embodied reality. Tris didn't get her happy ending with Tobias, but she got another happy ending, by dying with her own identity, and not losing herself to this crazy messed up world, and that's something every reader should learn from this story.