What's really interesting about Allegiant to me in comparison to the other two books in the series is that we actually get to see what caused the city and what is outside of it. How things are the same but different in how they are used, like O'hair airport isn't an airport it's a base for people studying other cities like Chicago, which are just experiments because of other things that have happened in the past, which I will get to a bit later. How everything is different and how Tris and Tobias and their friends who came with them outside of the wall don't know what an airplane or a ballroom or a hotel is rather interesting since things like that are so common in our time now, and I really think that Veronica Roth did a good job with that aspect of the world and how it works. As a writer myself I know that when you create a distopian world, or a fantasy world that is different from todays, you really need to think of the specifics and how things are run and worked; along with the kind of things they have and how they are used. It's also nice that she's used actual places instead of making them up so people who live in Illinois like us actually have a connection to said areas. It's also a lot easier for us to picture, and for people doing placement for movies. Not that I think they will continue with the series, it's just easier and more convenient for the directer or whoever is the one who places the shooting area.
Now the background of the world is rather interesting I think because it's rather realistic and something that I think scientists would actually study. Scientists wanted to try and eliminate genes that sort of cause negative traits like "cowardice, dishonesty, low intelligence—all the qualities, in other words, that ultimately contribute to a broken society." However when they did take away these genes over times, they found that other traits we need like compassion, motivation, "or their ability to assert themselves." were lost as well. This is why they made communities like the one in Chicago, to see if eventually, generation after generation, the genes could repair. The people with fully repaired genes, or pure genes like Tris, are called Divergent. This is explained within about two pages, and it's probably my favorite part of the book so far. There has also been mention of a rebellion, called the Purity War which is what pushed them to making the experimental communities. If the communities prevailed and had a large population of Divergent like Chicago did before Jeanine massacre'd them, it was successful and they would go back into the rest of the population to pass of the pure genes and speed up the healing.
In order to know if the experiments have worked, the people on the outside have access to the cameras and know every things that has happened. "They've been watching us." What Jeanine did, what Evelyn is doing, everything. Because though Chicago was the first one to work well with the faction system, (not all of the cities have it) they are rather reluctant to disband it due to what has recently happened with Jeanine hunting down the Divergent and Evelyn destroying the faction system entirely. I have yet to know if they actually will go in and take over, but so far I have a feeling that that will be the cross roads that splits the place in two. Tris and her friends wanting possibly them to stop Evelyn and the experiment verses the people that don't think they need to interfere. but that's all I'm thinking, who knows what'll really happen. (People who've read it, technically)
Now the background of the world is rather interesting I think because it's rather realistic and something that I think scientists would actually study. Scientists wanted to try and eliminate genes that sort of cause negative traits like "cowardice, dishonesty, low intelligence—all the qualities, in other words, that ultimately contribute to a broken society." However when they did take away these genes over times, they found that other traits we need like compassion, motivation, "or their ability to assert themselves." were lost as well. This is why they made communities like the one in Chicago, to see if eventually, generation after generation, the genes could repair. The people with fully repaired genes, or pure genes like Tris, are called Divergent. This is explained within about two pages, and it's probably my favorite part of the book so far. There has also been mention of a rebellion, called the Purity War which is what pushed them to making the experimental communities. If the communities prevailed and had a large population of Divergent like Chicago did before Jeanine massacre'd them, it was successful and they would go back into the rest of the population to pass of the pure genes and speed up the healing.
In order to know if the experiments have worked, the people on the outside have access to the cameras and know every things that has happened. "They've been watching us." What Jeanine did, what Evelyn is doing, everything. Because though Chicago was the first one to work well with the faction system, (not all of the cities have it) they are rather reluctant to disband it due to what has recently happened with Jeanine hunting down the Divergent and Evelyn destroying the faction system entirely. I have yet to know if they actually will go in and take over, but so far I have a feeling that that will be the cross roads that splits the place in two. Tris and her friends wanting possibly them to stop Evelyn and the experiment verses the people that don't think they need to interfere. but that's all I'm thinking, who knows what'll really happen. (People who've read it, technically)
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