About Veronica Roth

                                                   

I decided to learn more about Veronica Roth, who wrote Allegiant. She was born August 19th 1988 in New York. She grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. She is the youngest of 3 kids, and has a brother and a sister. When she was 5 her parents got a divorce and her mother is now remarried.  She started at Carleton College and spent her first year there, she then transferred to Northwestern University and majored in creative writing. She began writing Divergent her senior year while she was supposed to be doing homework. She married photographer Nelson Fitch in 2011. She is now 25 years old. Roth has a blog here on blogger if you would like to view it click here. 

Her first book Divergent came out October 22, 2013 and was an instant hit with not just young adults but also with adults. She sold the rights of the series to Summit Entertainment and filming began in April of 2013. The movie comes out March 21, 2014, it was directed by Neil Burger and the trailer was recently released to the public. Tris Prior will be played by Shailene Woodly and Four/Tobias will be played by Theo James. 

Roth has also written short stories from Four's perspective they are called Free Four and they include,before the first book and they include the events that have happened in the current books. She looks as though she will have a bright future ahead of her in writing. 

Connections with Allegiant

I am reading the book Allegiant by Veronica Roth. It is in a trilogy of books the first is Divergent then Insurgent and finally, what I am reading now Allegiant. It is about a girl named Tris who lives in a city with separate factions Abnegation, Amity, Dauntless, Candor, and Erudite. Each stand for different human traits, Abnegation, selflessness; Amity, peaceful; Dauntless, fearless; Candor, honest; and Erudite, intelligent. When you turn 16 you take a test that helps place you in a faction but it doesn't work on everyone, some people like Tris are divergent and don't have a specific category that they belong to. But being divergent makes you a target that makes the government want to kill you.

I made a text to text connection with the book Allegiant by Veronica Roth, which I am reading right now, and the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins because they both take place in "perfect" Utopias. They also both have a female protagonist who have a major challenge and are trying to find themselves in the process. They both have an extremely strict and controlling government that limit what they know and what they can learn. Allegiant is the last book in a trilogy so it's a build up of all three books so I can't go into detail about what happens, but over the course of the book the main character, Tris has to make a big decision, just like Katniss. She also has to prove herself to other people around her and she has to prove to herself what she can do. The "country" is split into factions just like in The Hunger Games where Panem is split into districts. Overall these books are strikingly similar but they each have their own storyline and their own characters so that they are their own stories.  

I made a text to self connection because Tris is very strong and I think that I am very strong too she's also very stubborn which I believe I am too. She doesn't back down to anyone and she does what she believes in no matter what anyone else is doing around her and I think that that is very admirable about her. She also is always trying to discover something that she didn't know about herself constantly and that makes her a growing and an even more complex character through out the series.

The text to world connection that I made was that people now pick out things about people like that person is smart, or that a person is honest or even that a person is courageous. This book proves that people can have all of these traits and that no one has just one. With Tris being a strong character and being female people a long time ago wouldn't have been able to see that because a lot of women weren't strong at the time, but now with women in prestigious jobs and with women getting more respect people can begin to see women in the way that they should have always been seen.