{"id":5960,"date":"2014-03-25T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T20:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/?p=5960"},"modified":"2016-04-22T16:58:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T00:58:45","slug":"divergent-a-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/divergent-a-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Divergent: A Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Date Seen: March 23, 2014<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/336qJITnDi0\" height=\"272\" width=\"482\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title: Divergent<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main Characters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tris (Beatris Prior): A sixteen year old girl, born into the faction of Abnegation (the faction for those who blamed human evil on selfishness), who transfers to the faction of Dauntless (those who blamed evil on cowardice and weakness)<\/p>\n<p>Four (Tobias Eaton): The Dauntless initiate training instructor, of whom there is little known about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Divergent<\/em>, set in post-apoctalyptic Chicago, is comprised of a society of five factions, or groups of people bonded together depending on what they thought was the reason for the war that destroyed the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Abnegation, the faction that the heroine of this story, Tris, was born into, is the faction of the selfless. \u00a0They wear plain clothes, eat plain food, and are only allowed to look in a mirror once a month, to demonstrate a lack of obsession about their personal selves and a devotion to the good of others. \u00a0Abnegation runs the government of Chicago, as they are concerned only for the good of the people and others. \u00a0Amity, the second faction, is the faction of the kind and peaceful, for those who blamed violence on human failing. \u00a0They wear bright clothes, and are all cheerful and jolly. \u00a0They produce food and farm for the rest of the population. \u00a0Candor, the third faction, was created for those who thought lies and dishonesty was at fault. \u00a0Their most important rule is to always tell the truth, no matter how painful, and they wear only black and white, to show that the world is only good and evil, truth and lies. \u00a0Erudite, the fourth faction, was made for people who blamed idiocy and unintelligence. \u00a0They are all incredibly smart and well educated, with blue as their faction color. \u00a0They are the inventors of the serum, which is a chemical injected into your neck with transmitters in it that allow people to view what&#8217;s happening inside your head, as well as test your aptitude for which faction your personality is best suited for and as shown in Dauntless initiate training, to force you to confront your darkest fears. \u00a0The last faction is Dauntless. \u00a0Dauntless train themselves to overcome fear and weakness, first weakness of the body (physical combat, knife throwing, self-defense), then weakness of the mind (using serum to overcome your fears, to brave them).<\/p>\n<p>Tris is sixteen, and it is the day before Choosing Day. \u00a0When she goes in for the Aptitude Test, administered by a Dauntless woman by the name of Tori, she is told that she must pretend the serum made her sick, that what her aptitude was got messed up. \u00a0She finds out this is because she is Divergent, something considered evil by Erudite and the rest of the factions, and that if anyone found out she would be killed. \u00a0With this in mind she goes home and deliberates which faction is best for her. \u00a0On Choosing Day, she symbolically cuts her palm and sprinkles her blood over the coals that represent Dauntless (and enforce the motto <em>Faction before blood<\/em>), and begins a new life in her new faction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Likes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dislikes:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date Seen: March 23, 2014 &nbsp; &nbsp; Title: Divergent &nbsp; Main Characters: Tris (Beatris Prior): A sixteen year old girl, born into the faction of Abnegation (the faction for those who blamed human evil on selfishness), who transfers to the faction of Dauntless (those who blamed evil on cowardice and weakness) Four (Tobias Eaton): The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/divergent-a-movie-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Divergent: A Movie Review<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,74],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-5960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8th-grade","category-film-reviews","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5976,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}