I have just finished reading the book Insurgent by Veronica Roth. Now, why is it called insurgent? Well insurgent means being a rebel. Being a rebel means a person that stands for what they believe in and doesn't care what anyone says, and is against a ruler or government. In this story, the main character, Tris, is insurgent.
The series this book comes from, Divergent, is about a community divided into five faction. Each faction has their own personality; for example, one of the factions is called Abnegation, the people who live in the Abnegation faction is selfless, they're not selfish. Another faction is Dauntless and they are the people who are brave and daring. You are born into a faction. Then when you're sixteen, you take a test to see which faction you belong in based on your personality. When the person who has given your test tells you which faction you belong in, at the choosing ceremony you say good-bye to your old faction and join your new faction. After that, you learn the way your new faction lives and leave you family behind in your old faction. You rarely see your family and friends after choosing a new way to live. Tris was born into Abnegation. When she took the test when she turned sixteen, she had a rare situation having to do with her personality. At the end she ends up choosing Dauntless.
In the book Insurgent there is a war going on between some factions. The Dauntless and the Erudite (the people with the brains) team up and destroy Abnegation. Both Tris and her boyfriend Four are from Abnegation and are now in Dauntless. Not wanting to go against their old faction, they escape the Dauntless and go to the faction Amity (the people who are peaceful and supply the factions with some food like fruits and vegetables).The fifth faction, Candor ( the people who don't have opinions, don't tell lies, and believe everything is equal) are also like Abnegation, they are close to being destroyed. In the book, Four and Tris are trying to find out why they are trying to destroy their factions. They and other people, are hiding and trying to find out how they can destroy the Erudite and Dauntless and just make one big "faction" since one faction is already gone. Tris tries to find the information she needs, but while doing that she keeps putting her life in jeopardy.
Since Tris is putting her life in jeopardy, there is a reason why. It is because she is insurgent. She is standing for what she believes is right and doesn't want the Erudite and Dauntless to become rulers, and Tris is against them. In the book someone calls her insurgent because she is just so sure about what is right and what is wrong. I think this book was given a great title. At first I didn't realize what insurgent mention but when a guy told her that she was insurgent and what it meant, I realize throughout the book how insurgent she was.
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