I loved your first impression! i felt the same way about beatrice and the way she feels. i liked how you said she pictured herself in another faction, and i totally agree. Beatrice was born into Abnegation and was raised to always put others feelings before her own and follow the ways of her faction, but she never felt like that was where she belonged. she would always look at the other factions and picture what it would be like to be a part of them. she always dreamed of being in other factions and what it would be like. i love how you said she "becomes even more lost in her decisions" after she gets Divergent as her aptitude test results. This is so true! she already had enough problems deciding which faction she fit into, and she hoped the aptitude test would tell her finally which one she fit into and it would all be clear. But when she got Divergent as her test results, she was even more lost then before. I also think she had guilty feelings about her choice of Dauntless, mainly because her father was a leader in Abnegation and was depending on her to pick his faction, and Abnegation and Dauntless recently had a disagreement. This made her feel like she let him down. But, she was looking forward to exploring the wild and free life of Dauntless. i also think she struggles internally with thoughts about herself being divergent and thoughts about her brother, and ends up becoming doubtful about being Dauntless. Good job on your first impressions, i made a lot of the same connections myself, and i felt like you did a good job with your first blog. Nice.
The conflict between the individual and society is a consistent theme throughout "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". Huckleberry Finn was a boy who lived most of his life without his real parents, so he had to make most of the decisions using his own natural instincts which some of the decisions had more moral than people who tried to fit in with others. The painting represents huckleberry fin, the kid, helping a slave that escaped because he didn't know that the society would throw him in jail or kill him. Instead of fitting in with the racism, He did what was moraly right
My first impression of beatrice is that she wants to picture herself as a member of another faction, but she doesn't want to abandon her parents in abnegation. She is nervous about the aptitude test ,not because of what it is but because she is afraid of the results. After the aptitude test, when tori, her tester, tells her that she is divergent. Not knowing what divergence is or means, she becomes even more lost in decisions. she has to figure out how to hide divergence and pic a faction. After she pics dauntless, she has guilty feelings about leaving abnegation because her father is a government official in the abnegation, and even more the dauntless and abnegation recently had a disagreement. She tries to ignore her brothers decision because he piced erudite, and she sees how it can fit him, and she becomes doubtful about fitting in with the dauntless |