Insurgent Reading Skills

Insurgent, the sequel to the book Divergent is one of the 2 books that I am reading right now. I haven't finished the book yet, but I can already tell you that it’s a very well written book, with lots of action.

In the book so far, Tris, Tobias, Caleb, and Susan where staying at the Amity safe house. They were staying with others, such as Peter and Marcus, but later on in the book the Erudite come and try to search the Amity safe house, looking for the 6 of them, and they all run away. The Erudite chase them, and when they split up to try to lose them, gun shots are fired. I assume that Marcus is dead, because he isn't with the group any more, and the other 4 assume that Peter is dead as well, but I predict that the Erudite capture him and get him to join their side. This scene of chaos unfolded when Tris saw the Erudite cars and ran to warn others. They went to hide themselves by blending in, but that plan didn't work when one of the Erudite women saw how Tobias' hair was cut. "The Dauntless woman walking towards him looks at him right away. Her eyes narrow as she walks closer, and then stops directly behind him. I wish the collar of his shirt were higher. I wish he didn’t have so many tattoos. I wish... 'Your hair is pretty short for Amity,' she says. ... He did not cut his hair like the Abnegation. 'It’s hot,' he says. The excuse might work if he knew how to deliver it, but he says it with a snap. She stretches out her hand and, with her index finger, pulls back the collar of his shirt to see his tattoo. And Tobias moves. He grabs the woman's wrist, yanking her forward so she loses her balance. She hits her head against the edge of the tale and falls. Across the room, a gun goes off, someone screams, and everyone dives under the tables or crouches next to the benches." (Roth, 80-81). This is a quote to show that the Erudite where working with the Dauntless, and how the scene was set up. Although in real life, this maybe would've taken about 1 minute to set up, it seems as if this would take forever to get through because of the detail that Veronica Roth, the author, put into it.

I predict that towards the end of the book, there will be another large war, and the good people will win. Then everyone who was not on the bad side that is alive will try to change things to make them better, or to change things to try to keep a war like what they just went through not happen ever again. Some of the questions that I have so far are: what happened to Marcus and Peter? What is going to happen to Caleb, Tris, Tobias, and Susan? Will the war end? Who will win the war if it does end? How will the war end if it does end?

I cannot make any text to world or text to self-connections, because as far as I know, there has not been any world wars, or any wars, where people where injected with a drug that took over their minds where they were controlled to kill other people and get something that they didn't know existed. I can make a text to text connection from this book to the book that comes before it, Divergent. These books are similar because they both have the same issue, how to stop the war, and are connected basically. I could make a basic text to world connection, because some people and other countries could not value their military, just like how some people don't value the Dauntless, who are their military.

Insurgent Book review

WARNING- SPOILERS!!!

So I finally finished the book Insurgent. The ending was something of what I predicted, except for the fact that Peter and Marcus are both not dead. I predicted that Peter would work for the Erudite, which he somewhat did, except for he ends up saving Tris' life and helps Tris and Tobias escape the Erudite compound.
 

What happened from where I last blogged about up to the end of the book is the Erudite and traitor Dauntless break into the place where lots of the Divergent (people with an aptitude for 2 or more factions) are staying, along with lots of other survivors from the war who are not traitors, are staying. They shoot simulation-transmitters into a bunch of people staying, but only the non-Divergent people are affected by it. Tris and Uriah, a non-traitor Dauntless, start to look for Divergent people before the Erudite find them. They end up getting caught, and taken to where they are keeping the other Divergent people. Eric, a Dauntless-traitor, who used to be a Dauntless leader, tells the guards to keep a gun on Tris at all times. He then comes back to where the Divergent are, and tells them what is happening. He says that they can only take 2 Divergent to Erudite headquarters for studying, and the rest will be executed. A little boy sitting next to Tris gets shot in the head by Eric, and Tris, grabbing the knife she had in her pocket, attacks Eric, and stabs him in the stomach. The Dauntless who are not traitors then surround the area where the Divergent are being held because of help they got from one of the Erudite, and they save the Divergent. Tris helps remove the needles that transmitted the simulation serum, and then everything settles down. But, in a good action book, things never stay that way. Tris wakes up to Christina, one of her old friends that was a Dauntless initiate with her, and gets dragged but to the roof to see 3 people, Marlene, Hector, and a young girl standing on the edge of the building. They are under the simulation that they were shot with. Marlene announces that this will happen every 2 days until a Divergent is given to Erudite. Tris and Christina save the little girl and Hector, but Marlene jumps off of the building to her death.
 

During the funeral service for Marlene, Tris is overcome by grief and guilt, and leaves the service, where Christina finds her and tells her that she forgives her for shooting Will, who was Christina's boyfriend. Tris had to shoot Will because he was under the simulation in the first book, Divergent, and if she didn't shoot him, he would shoot her. Tris then finds her way to Tobias' room, where he makes her promise not to go to the Erudite headquarters. She says she won't, but after he falls asleep, she leaves and goes anyway. Upon arrival Dauntless traitor guards take her to a cell. Among the guards is Peter. He escorts her everywhere that she goes. Jeannie, the leader of the Erudite who is responsible for all of the simulation attacks and deaths, tells her that as soon as she gets what she wants from Tris, which is a divergent-proof simulation, that Tris will be executed. Jeannie preforms a series of tests on Tris. Peter is escorting her to one of the tests where they run into an injured Tobias, who got captured by the guards. Tris thinks that he came to save her. After one of her tests, Tobias is forced to give Jeannie information on the locations of some of the factionless safe houses. After another one of her tests where Tris actually attacks Jeannie, she calls Caleb out, who is Tris' brother. Tris becomes extremely hurt and views him as a traitor because of this. He was giving Jeannie all the information she needed to know about Tris. After Tris attacked Jeannie, Tris' execution was planned for the next day. They perform the execution, where she is injected. Tris hears the heart monitor go dead, but she knows that she is still breathing. Peter closes her eyes and wheels her out of the room. He starts to run and then gets to Tobias' cell. He explains that Tris is paralyzed for one minute and they run. They end up escaping, where Peter explains that the only reason he saved Tris was because she saved him. They go to the Abnegation section of the city, which is another faction, and meet with the factionless and the Dauntless. One day while Tris is walking around the city, she runs into Marcus, who convinces Tris that her parents died to try to keep whatever Jeannie wants a secret. Tris, believing him, goes to the Amity headquarters with Christina and Marcus to update Johanna. The Amity then holds a meeting and vote to stay out of the war. Johanna and several others then leave the faction because they want to help. Christina and Tris then talk to the Erudite people who were staying in the Amity headquarters, and convince them to help Christina, Tris, and Marcus on getting the information stolen and to give it to all of the factions. Tris leads a group into Erudite headquarters, where she and Marcus then go up to Jeannie's private laboratory after realizing that the information won’t be on a public computer after an encounter with Caleb. On the way up to the laboratory Christina, Marcus, and Tris run into Edward. They fight, and it leaves Christina and Edward injured. Tris and Marcus continue on, and come to a dead end where there are two different doors. They split up, and Tris walks into one of the rooms. There, the room recognizes her, and gives her a set of directions. If she gets through the door on the other side of the room in 5 minutes, then she is allowed to pass. Tris starts to walk towards the door when she gets blocked by herself. They must fight like they did in the initiate training for Dauntless. Tris realizes half way through the fight that whatever she would do in the fight; her image will do as well, so she begins to think of what she would do ahead of time, instead of just reacting. She passes the simulation, and goes through the door, where she finds Tori threatening Jeannie. Tris tries to talk her out of killing Jeannie, because Jeannie is the only one who can access the computer that Tris needs. Tris and Tori fight, and Tori bites Tris. Tris had knocked Tori's weapon out of her hand, but Tori pulls out a knife and stabs Jeannie. Tori then continues to call Tris a traitor, and has her taken away to be tried. Uriah then takes Tris downstairs where all of the traitors where being held for trial. Evelyn, a Factionless leader, then announces a new form of government where there are no Factions. The Dauntless become very upset about this, but find they are powerless because the Factionless had all of their weapons. Tobias then walks into the room, and kisses Tris. Tris begins to hope that all of the secrets that they had between them are gone. Then, a video plays, featuring someone named Amanda Ritter. She says that the factions where created in Chicago and they were sealed off from the rest of the world. But, once the video was played, the Amity would open the gates and they should all enter the world. She says that they should all forget their past, and that she would be entering the new world under the name of Edith Prior. The video ends, and the room erupts in voices.

In the blog that I posted before, I had asked some questions which I know have the answer too.  The questions that I asked where: what happened to Marcus and Peter? The answer to this question is they both live, and Peter does act like he has sided with the Erudite, which I predicted, but he eventually saves Tris, which is going against the Erudite, which is something I did not predict.  What is going to happen to Caleb, Tris, Tobias, and Susan? They all live, but Caleb sides with the Erudite, and Tobias, Tris, and Susan all stay on the other side of the war, the "good side".  Will the war end? It seems that the war has ended, but I can predict that there might be another war because there is a third book, and I don't think that book is just going to be about their new life without factions.  Who will win the war if it does end? The "good side" (Tris, Tobias, factionless and the good Dauntless)seem to have won the war, but only the factionless got what they wanted, and the Dauntless are kind of upset about not having factions anymore. How will the war end if it does end?   The war ended by Jeannie dying and the good Dauntless and the factionless capturing the "rebels", and everyone seeing the video about there no longer being any factions. 

Insurgent Reading Skills

Insurgent, the sequel to the book Divergent is one of the 2 books that I am reading right now. I haven't finished the book yet, but I can already tell you that it’s a very well written book, with lots of action.

In the book so far, Tris, Tobias, Caleb, and Susan where staying at the Amity safe house. They were staying with others, such as Peter and Marcus, but later on in the book the Erudite come and try to search the Amity safe house, looking for the 6 of them, and they all run away. The Erudite chase them, and when they split up to try to lose them, gun shots are fired. I assume that Marcus is dead, because he isn't with the group any more, and the other 4 assume that Peter is dead as well, but I predict that the Erudite capture him and get him to join their side. This scene of chaos unfolded when Tris saw the Erudite cars and ran to warn others. They went to hide themselves by blending in, but that plan didn't work when one of the Erudite women saw how Tobias' hair was cut. "The Dauntless woman walking towards him looks at him right away. Her eyes narrow as she walks closer, and then stops directly behind him. I wish the collar of his shirt were higher. I wish he didn’t have so many tattoos. I wish... 'Your hair is pretty short for Amity,' she says. ... He did not cut his hair like the Abnegation. 'It’s hot,' he says. The excuse might work if he knew how to deliver it, but he says it with a snap. She stretches out her hand and, with her index finger, pulls back the collar of his shirt to see his tattoo. And Tobias moves. He grabs the woman's wrist, yanking her forward so she loses her balance. She hits her head against the edge of the tale and falls. Across the room, a gun goes off, someone screams, and everyone dives under the tables or crouches next to the benches." (Roth, 80-81). This is a quote to show that the Erudite where working with the Dauntless, and how the scene was set up. Although in real life, this maybe would've taken about 1 minute to set up, it seems as if this would take forever to get through because of the detail that Veronica Roth, the author, put into it.

I predict that towards the end of the book, there will be another large war, and the good people will win. Then everyone who was not on the bad side that is alive will try to change things to make them better, or to change things to try to keep a war like what they just went through not happen ever again. Some of the questions that I have so far are: what happened to Marcus and Peter? What is going to happen to Caleb, Tris, Tobias, and Susan? Will the war end? Who will win the war if it does end? How will the war end if it does end?

I cannot make any text to world or text to self-connections, because as far as I know, there has not been any world wars, or any wars, where people where injected with a drug that took over their minds where they were controlled to kill other people and get something that they didn't know existed. I can make a text to text connection from this book to the book that comes before it, Divergent. These books are similar because they both have the same issue, how to stop the war, and are connected basically. I could make a basic text to world connection, because some people and other countries could not value their military, just like how some people don't value the Dauntless, who are their military.

Siege and Storm

I just started this book today, and I can already tell that it is going to be a great book, just like the book that comes before it (it is the second book in a series), Shadow and Bone.  The book starts out with a chapter called before- which isn't actually a chapter, because chapter one comes right after it.  It tells the story of how the main characters Alina and Mal get to where they started in chapter one.  Leigh Bardugo does a great job of capturing the readers attention in the first paragraph of the story, just like she did in the first book.  "The boy and the girl had once dreamed of ships, long ago. before they'd ever seem the True Sea.  They were the vessels of stories, magic ships with masts hewn from sweet cedar and sails spun by maidens from thread of pure gold.  Their crews were white mice who sang songs and scrubbed the deck with their pink tails." (Bardugo, 1).  The author uses a metaphor to help the reader imagine the scenes that the boy and the girl (Mal and Alina) had dreamed of, by comparing men to mice.  She also captures the readers attention and helps them imagine the scene by saying the ship was magical and then proving her point by claiming that the ship had masts hewn from sweet cedar and the sails were pure gold.
I am only on page 40, but already there is action going on.  The Darkling- who is the antagonist of the story, has already found Alina and is attempting to capture her.  I know what happens, but I dont want to put it on the blog in case someone else is reading the book currently or wants to read it.  I'm telling you right now, if you haven't read Shadow and Bone yet, go and read it now.  It is a really really really good book with lots of fantasy in it.  If you read this book you will expose yourself to an awesome author and an amazing series.  The way that Leigh Bardugo writes makes her books seem very suspenceful and they are action-packed.