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by Emma Burton8 views·Updated May 10, 2022
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  1. I think we have all read a book series and fallen in love with or
  2. at least gotten excited to see a live action representation of said book series.
  3. However it can be super disappointing when what you grew to love about
  4. the book is not featured or is changed in the visual adaptation.
  5. I chose to compare the divergent book to the film adaptation because I
  6. really enjoyed the book but after watching the movie I was heavily disappointed
  7. for a movie to make a few stylistic changes is one
  8. thing but to leave out entire scenes is something completely different.
  9. Let's start off with the plot. Shall we
  10. essentially Beatrice Prior
  11. later known as tris Prior has a huge decision on what her future will be.
  12. She has to make the choice of what faction she
  13. will choose and live the rest of her life in
  14. the faction system implemented after the wars has five factions,
  15. dauntless the brave erudite the smart abnegation, the selfless candor,
  16. the honest and amity the kind
  17. the characters choose based on their aptitude test
  18. results but Trish's test results are inconclusive.
  19. Making her divergent
  20. being divergent is dangerous,
  21. especially in future Chicago because they can't control you easily and often
  22. it leads to rebellion or more so ideas of rebellion.
  23. The faction system was implemented to avoid more war.
  24. So if divergent paper were to rebel it would destroy the piece that was constructed
  25. The day after the aptitude test is the choosing ceremony where the young 16 year
  26. old Children choose what faction they will hopefully
  27. live the rest of their lives in.
  28. I say hopefully because they have to go
  29. through an initiation process and if they fail,
  30. they become faction liss
  31. quite a bit of
  32. decision for such young people, I'd say
  33. Trees ends up choosing dauntless.
  34. She is the only obligation transferred to dauntless and
  35. she is the weakest of all the initiates.
  36. There are three initiation sections.
  37. The first deals with combat and physical skills,
  38. the second deals with fear and overcoming it,
  39. and the third and final trial is the fear landscape
  40. during the first stage of initiation tries doesn't excel in a lot of things,
  41. but she does get stronger and better by the end of the stage
  42. She fights other transfer initiates,
  43. which in the book only nine make it to initiation because one does
  44. not jump off the train to get to the entrance of dauntless.
  45. While in the movie there's a lot more initiates pictured.
  46. Trees has seen fighting two times in the book and movie,
  47. but it differs because in the book she loses the first
  48. fight to Peter and wins the second fight to molly.
  49. In the movie, she loses both fights and the order of who she fights is switched.
  50. First passing
  51. the stage,
  52. she moves on to the second and by the end of it is ranked for a set of all of the initiates
  53. making her
  54. target for the others who want to become dauntless.
  55. one night she gets attacked by Peter drew and my so called friend how
  56. they
  57. say that they're going to rape her and then kill her,
  58. But then four intervenes and takes her back to
  59. his apartment where she stays for the night.
  60. He tells her that she needs to lick her wounds and make everyone see how weak she is
  61. so that she doesn't get attacked again.
  62. This conversation never happens in the movie.
  63. Her friend Al, who helped attack and kill
  64. and almost killed her,
  65. commits suicide,
  66. then trees and the remaining initiates move on to the final stage.
  67. In the book,
  68. the characters are aware that they are in a simulation during the fear landscape.
  69. In the movie,
  70. they are put under simulation and only divergence
  71. can tell this is significant because in the
  72. book tries doesn't have to worry about being
  73. exposed as divergent in the final stage,
  74. Tryst completes her fear landscape and is ranked 1st
  75. area that eventually tries to take over future Chicago by mind controlling,
  76. dauntless to kill all of Abnegation
  77. trees is able to beat the Big Bad because she
  78. is divergent and the mind control doesn't work on her
  79. after having to fight for who was being mind controlled.
  80. They awfully on a train.
  81. Some other things that happened in the book and not in the movie are
  82. Edward and initiate. That's not even in the movie
  83. gets his at I stabbed out
  84. by Peter in the middle of the night
  85. because Peter is
  86. ranked lower than Edward.
  87. Another thing is that tries and four don't have as many intimate scenes together
  88. in the book,
  89. there are a lot of scenes where they
  90. shared knowing looks or slight touches that aren't featured
  91. in the movie
  92. um Trees and
  93. her mom
  94. have a conversation during visiting day,
  95. which is where we learn that tries
  96. his mom
  97. was the
  98. dauntless
  99. and then she transferred to be abnegation.
  100. And then
  101. unlike in the movie tries does not hold up the flag to win, capture the flag,
  102. it is Christina who snatches it away
  103. in the book,
  104. she leads to some,
  105. this leads to some animosity on treason because she deserved to
  106. hold up the flag and wind capture the flag.
  107. Now let's talk about characters and character development
  108. in the book,
  109. tris undergoes a lot of character development because she's the main character.
  110. We see her go from one of the weakest and worst initiates to the best ranking
  111. first in her initiate class,
  112. Not only that, but we see her internally struggle with being divergent
  113. and if she made the right choice, choosing dauntless
  114. Trees goes through a lot of internal struggle and
  115. she finds herself going against what her family taught her
  116. and abnegation on many occasions,
  117. physically, she is pretty similar to the movie
  118. as described in the book.
  119. However, in the book, she is more petite,
  120. being shorter than
  121. all of the other initiates.
  122. A huge thing that
  123. was described in the book,
  124. that was not touched on at all in the movie was fours piercing dark blue eyes
  125. The same that his father Marcus has. Um he's also only an 18 in the book.
  126. While in the movie he's 24.
  127. His personal banality is quite similar but the
  128. relationship between for interest is not fleshed out,
  129. it is quite rushed and we don't see how four
  130. is very passive but also loving towards trees in the movie
  131. four is very Dick ISH two trees in the movie, but in
  132. then suddenly they're kissing on the balcony.
  133. It's very rushed
  134. and then lastly peter trees enemy throughout the book
  135. and movie is very tame in the visual adaptation
  136. in the book,
  137. he is ruthless against trees and on
  138. many occasions embarrasses and torments her physically.
  139. He plays a huge role in her character development because she
  140. does a lot of things to either protect herself from him
  141. or beat him at his own game.
  142. Now we can talk all day
  143. about how the characters are different and how the setting doesn't quite match.
  144. But that's not entirely what I'm concerned about.
  145. I have a bone to pick with the person or persons that decided to change the
  146. story and leave out important chunks of the plot so that it would fit into one
  147. to our launch trash fire.
  148. Now I get that a lot of the more violent actions can be seen
  149. in a PU 13 movie without parents and rating committees throwing a fit.
  150. But I feel as though we don't get a true
  151. image of how crucial that violence is to the character development
  152. and seriousness of the book.
  153. For instance,
  154. The scene where tries gets attacked by
  155. the three other initiates.
  156. They
  157. throw her or they try to throw her over the chasm
  158. and kill her,
  159. but
  160. four steps in and
  161. saves her.
  162. In the book. She is threatened with
  163. sexual assault and
  164. is brutally beat up. But in the movies it's very tame and
  165. it doesn't last very long honestly.
  166. And then another thing is that in the book
  167. the fights between the initiates are way more brutal. Um
  168. People get broken noses, people get broken bones,
  169. but in the movie it's more sparring and
  170. there's really no gore at all.
  171. And my recommendation is that the book is way better.
  172. Um
  173. so just definitely
  174. read the book, don't worry about the movie at all.
  175. Um I thought the movie was a huge dumpster fire and
  176. that's only because I loved the book so much and I couldn't see
  177. how they would want to change so much about it.
  178. Um But it is fun to watch the movie. If you don't ever plan on reading the book,
  179. it's kind of just a fun
  180. young adult
  181. fiction movie
  182. that touches on pretty important themes but
  183. could be way better
  184. and thank you