The book to me is way better than the movie, no doubt about it! I think the book is just so much more personal and intimate than the movie. When I read the book I feel like I am Tris (Beatrice) I can feel everything she feels mentally and emotionally. I never wanted to put down the book! The movie shows you some things out of the book, but you just don't get the full story!
- In the book, you are told that in Abnegation at the dinner table you are not to talk unless asked a direct question, that it is the time for your parents to discuss matters together, and if they want your input they will ask for it. You get to talk before bed in the living room and your parents have to listen to you. So in the movie when you watch the scene before the day of the choosing ceremony where the Prior's are eating supper and the mother and father look at Tris weird for talking out, you don't know why. I guess people could wonder if they are thinking she's being a bit too nosy or if she is what? There is no clarification of what is going on in the movie.
- They also don't really tell you what each of the factions mean in the movie, you just know there are five and that when you are sixteen you take this test and then the following day choose which faction that you want to be a part of.
- In the movie, you don't know why Caleb chooses Erudite, you just know that he does. When Caleb tells Tris the night before the choosing ceremony that when she chooses her faction she needs to think of her family but also think of herself, you don't get a preview of why he chooses Erudite like in the book.
- One big problem I have with the movie is adding in so much stuff that Veronica Roth did not write! She wrote an amazing story and no one needed to mess with her story, it was perfect! Why instead of adding stuff that didn't belong why didn't they just put more of the real story's details in there? That would have made much more sense! A few examples of this is there weren't nearly thirty non-Dauntless-born initiates like it shows in the movie, there were 9 that end up staying for the actual initiation process. They also do not show rankings as in the book! They don't get Jeanine to shut the program down either.
- In the movie they don't tell you that Peter stabbed Edward in the eye because he ranked before Peter, so that made you not know why he tried to kill Tris. The movie doesn't say why Al was in on this either. The book clearly tells you why Al wanted in. Al was in love with Tris. She turned him down and things got awkward. Then she was ranked first in stage two and Al was ranked last. The jealousy got the best of him. Then he asked her for forgiveness and she tells him to never come near her again or she would kill him (that part was sort of in the movie, but still not the same as the book) he hates himself and commits suicide later that night by jumping into the chasm.
- I am going to skip so much because I really want people to read this book, and watch the movie to know for themselves! But there is just one more thing I just can not leave out!
- They love story is just so much better in the book. You really can't see how much Four (Tobias as found out later by Tris) loves Tris. Tris also loves Four. There is so much more than what you see in the movie, and they took it away, the part that holds the entire story together! Four doesn't choose Tris for no reason, and you don't know that when you watch the movie, but it is so spelled out in the book.
I really do suggest people read the book. The book is almost always better than the movie! If the people who made the movie Divergent made it exactly like the book, it would be so much better, its amazing.
Veronica Roth: You did an amazing job on Divergent! I am currently reading Insurgent and it is just as amazing, thrilling, and all as Divergent. You are an amazing writer!
