Insurgent

            From my last blog post, I haven't read as far as I would have liked to, but I did read some more interesting stuff about Jeanine/Erudite's motives and the society. From the reading, I found out that along with Tris, Tobias, and Uriah, Marcus (Tobias's abusive father) is also divergent. Also Jack Kang (leader of Candor) wants to negotiate with one of Jeanine's representatives. Tris, Tobias, and a few of their friends think it would be a good idea to follow and spy on them. But before the meeting, a fight between Tobias and Marcus breaks out. People had been making fun of Tobias and calling him a coward since he was trying to run away from his father, and that he didn't stand up to his father, Marcus. So in front of everybody in the cafeteria, Tobias beats up his father and whips him with his belt. Tris wonders why Tobias did what he did and she remembers that Tobias's mom, Evelyn, told him to prove himself to Dauntless and become a leader, so that Dauntless will join forces with the factionless and rebel against Erudite. Afterward everyone gets in their position to spy on the meeting. Max, another leader from Dauntless was Jeanine's representative. He told Jack that Erudite will keep him and his faction unharmed if: 1) They return Eric, unharmed. 2)Let them search the compounds for Divergents and 3) Tell them everyone who wasn't injected with the simulation serum. Lynn, one of Tris's friends, shoots Max. Tris realizes that Jeanine must be close by because she knows that Jeanine was telling Max what to say through an earpiece. Tris runs toward a glass building and she was right. She sees Jeanine and Peter, who is a Dauntless traitor, fleeing. Tris is about to chase after them but hears a scream. She runs to see what happens and sees that Shauna, Lynn's sister had been shot. They went back to Candor headquarters and while Shauna was getting treated, Tobias was angry with Tris because she is always putting herself in dangerous situations. He tells her that if she does it again, they can not stay together. Angry and shocked, she goes and talks to Tori. She asks Tori if she found anything interesting while being a spy. Tori admits that she was trying to get close to Jeanine so that she could kill her. (She wants to do that because her brother was killed for being a divergent). 

           Insurgent has been reminding me about our current novel that we are reading in class, Fahrenheit 451. They are both about future societies where the government is trying to control the peoples' minds and lives. It makes me really fearful about what might happen in our future society if the government gets too greedy with power. From Fahrenheit 451, people were basically given an opinion, just so that they wouldn't form their own. The government brainwashed them with forbidding books and other laws, while in Insurgent, Erudite is almost brainwashing people too with all their simulations and serums.