Reading Response on Four by Veronica Roth

To ca-ca a successful fife in the right camarilla when a boy or girl turns sixteen they must mete step forward the aptitude test which helps them pick their junto. However, they whitethorn discern their faction establish glowering of opinion or interest. There are five factions to favour from. Abnegation, the ones who value selflessness, Candor, the ones that honor honesty, Amity, the ones that honor the peaceful, Erudite, the ones who honor the intelligent, and Dauntless, the ones that honor the brave. Each faction honors a certain trait. They believe that if a mortal was brave, or selfless, or kind, at that place would be no war and only peace.At the Choosing pick their factions. They may choose to stay with Ceremony the teenagers their faction and their families or they cease revoke them. Later on, if they prove to be unfit for their recent factions they lead go away factionists these are the people that have no family, no home. They live in concert or alone in aban doned buildings or homes, and even on the streets. Tibias Eaton, origin aloney from Abnegation, has turned sixteen and has to decide what he was going to do with his life and what faction he will spend it in. However, one social function is clear for him.He will run from Abnegation, and he will run from his embark on under ones skin. Tibias has to flight of stairs his father, and consider a place where he is safe, and hidden. Tibias is tired of living in fear and is ready to take on his own path in a different faction. When Tibias returns to his plain Abnegation home he goes to his way of life and reviews his most precious possessions that were given to him by his beat. Tibias was informed that his mother collapsed of baby labor when he was a young boy. This made his family impress obscure and caused the tenseness between him and his father.The author made this connection teen Tibias and his mother to show how his mother was the glue of their family and that Tibias was wetr to her than he is to his father. When Tibias reviews all of his possessions he is caught by his father and has it all taken away from him. His father throws all of his treasures around the room, destroying them in the process. Tibias is presently deprived of the only connection he had to his mother. Yet, we are about to discover more about Tibias and his fathers relationship. Tibias has developed a fear of his father and this is because of the abuse his father puts on Tibias. His makes oil with my chest. I stumble back and hit the dresser. Then he draws his hand back by his face to hit me, and say my throat airless with fear The Choosing Ceremony, Dad tomorrow was Tibias Choosing Ceremony. His last chance to beat, to be ease of fear. When we get there, my father puts a hand on my shoulder as we walk to the entrance, sending shocks of pain through my body. Have to get out. The twenty-four hours of the Choosing Ceremony is the day Tibias changes his life and the person he will become. Tibias is horrendous to escape Abnegation and to escape his father.As the ceremony goes on, Tibias is thinking of what faction he will choose. Where will he fit in the most? Where will he be safe? He decides that Candor, Erudite, and Amity are non choices that he can live with. His only choice is Dauntless. l unresolved my palm over the coals. Feel same(p) theyre burning in my stomach, woof me to the brim with fire and smoke. I am free. The minute the ceremony is over, Tibias begins initiation. He and the rest of the initiates must prove their bravery by jumping on to a locomote train, then jump off of a moving train on a roof, and finally they must jump off of the roof.My stomach drops and my limbs fumble in the air for something, anything to hold onto, but there is nonhing, only the drop, the air, the frantic search for the ground. As initiation goes by Tibias changes his reboot to quatern. After facing his worst fears Tibias and his initiation instruct or flub find out that he only has four fears. This new public figure gave Tibias new power, a new identity. My name is quaternary, I say. Call me Stiff once more and you and I will have a problem. During initiation, quadruplet makes many friendships and becomes close to Mar. However, he is still quite different from the rest.He equals to be alone, to have a peace of mind once in a while. The first give of initiation is physical training and combat. intravenous feeding has the drive and the practice from his childishness abuse to become the best initiate. He proves his bravery by tanning the other initiates in combat fights and using his strength and his thinking skills to his advantage. By the end of arrange one, Four is ranked first out of his broad(a) class and is considered someone to look out for. In the second stage of initiation Four has to prove that he can overcome his fears mentally using critical, fast thinking and by asking decisions that may be risky but cour ageous.However, Four thinks differently and beats the system by being aware during his stimulations that it is not reality. By being able to do this he gets out of the stimulation by realizing that if he jumps he wont die because its not real. Its just a test. Later on, Mar teaches Four to go through the stimulation kindred any other Dauntless would with bravery. At the end of initiation the initiates are ranked to show who has more potentiality and more strength than others. For Four, his rank surprised him a bit. Instantly, some of the tension disappears. I follow he list up, and panic stabs me for just a second when I cant find my own name.But then, there it is, right at the top. 1. Four. After initiation Four becomes a full pledged Dauntless. Finally, he is rid of Abnegation, rid of his father. When Four gets his apartment he as well gets a farm out offer to become a daring leader. Even though Four regarded to have a job where he would be the initiation instructor, simi lar Mar, he was expected to have a more prestigious job since he was ranked first. Four agrees to take the job but his heart isnt with it. Later on, Four realizes that if he becomes a leader he will eve to face his father, an Abnegation leader. My fingers start to go numb. Ive faced my fears so many times in simulations, but that doesnt spurious Im ready to face them in reality. Four has to interpret what it would be like to be a Dauntless leader but he also needed to learn the basic lifestyle of the Dauntless and needs to learn that Dauntless is more out there than Abnegation with their feelings, thoughts, and emotions. When Four goes to the meeting for dauntless leaders he quietly disagrees with the way the leaders handle situations and the changes that they motivation to make to aunties initiation.As the days go by, Four takes multiple tests that will even up if he has what it takes to become a leader, there is still tension and contention between Four and Eric and the fact that Eric has information that threatens Fours identity, and Four still has the qualm of an intruder access into his apartment. Four finally faces his new life as the new best initiate of Dauntless. After a day of trying work, Four returns home to find that once again somebody was in his apartment. This time they left a note. On the day you hated most. At the time when she dies. In the place where oh first jumped on. Four figured out that someone that had some connection to his childhood wanted to meet him. Instinctively, Four thinks its Marcus, his father. Four decides that he needs to know what Marcus wants and why he risked acquire caught to contact him. When Four arrives at the platform in the middle of the night, its not Marcus that shows up. Its Evelyn Eaton. His mother. Right away Fours mind races with memories of his mothers the death. The funeral, the gathering, the ashes. The only thing Four can say is Youre supposed to be dead. Fours mother tries to explain to IM tha t she didnt leave to excruciation him.She had to get away from Abnegation, from Marcus. Just like Four. The author here shows a similarity where both the mother and the son needed to escape from Fours father and his lifestyle. This show that Marcus might hide his temper and his real self from the familiar and only shows and acts like him true self at home. However, Four doesnt want to hear her pity story and he acts like she is the last person he wants to talk to. Stop wasting my time. What are we doing here? Evelyn reveals to Four that she is a leader to the factionists and that there is a big chance of a pricing among the factions and that Four should be on her side. Our city is changing, Tibias. The factionists are coming together, and so are Dauntless and Erudite. Sometime soon, everyone will have to choose a side, and I know which one you would rather be on. I think you can really make a difference with us. Four doesnt care about any Of the problems, really. He just cant le t go of the fact that Evelyn hasnt talked or reached out to him in seven years and now she actually wants something from him. A favor. Four chooses to run from her. Like he ran from him. at a time that Four is trying to find who he ally is he wants to get a tattoo that will represent him as a person.While Four is getting the tattoo, Tort, the tattoo artist tells him about being Divergent. Thats a backchat for people who are aware during simulations, who refuse to categorize. Four realizes that fits the description of Mar. Mar was aware during the Simi ululations. Divergent fit Mar, and it fit him. When Four meets with the dauntless leadership group again, he proves to have a less strategic protocol for initiates than no one other than Eric. Four realizes that this is his chance to change jobs and to escape leadership. To be honest, sir, I dont think that this is the right place for me.I told you when you first asked me that Id like to be an instructor, and think Im realizing mor e and more that thats where I belong. Days have passed by after Fours meeting with Evelyn. He had time to think if departure Dauntless, betraying his faction to join the factionists is the best thing he can do right now. He decides that its not. He has friends that support and understand him and he knows that no way is he leaving them behind. If the factions are deteriorating, as my mother clamorously have me believe, this is not a bad place to watch them fall apart. Four makes the choice to stay loyal to the faction that set him free. dickens years later, Four is the initiation instructor for a group of transference initiates which means that they come from other factions. There were initiates from Candor, Erudite, Amity, and Abnegation. The girl from Abnegation sparked Fours interest. Her name was Tries. She had a small form and looked as if she can snap like a twig in a second. Whenever Four is next to her he acts a certain way. He loses his hard, mean personality and opens up to her like he doesnt veer do to anyone.