September book blog 4-Insurgent by Veronica Roth

 

MAIN CHARACTERS: THE PROTAGONIST AND ANTAGONIST

Tris: Tris is the main character.  She struggles mentally a lot in this book.  (See my last book blog.)  She deals a lot with loss, guilt, love, and pain.  Tris’ love interest is Tobias, better known as Four.  Tris is Divergent; she could fit into Erudite, Abnegation, and Dauntless.  Last time she went through her fear landscape, she had seven fears.  Those seven fears were mainly about no escape and feeling guilt and hopelessness.  Tris is described as not exactly pretty, but not ugly.  She is teased much because of how small she is.  She originally came from Abnegation, then changed to Dauntless.

Tobias (Four): Tobias is mainly known as Four.  He received that nickname since he has the lowest amount of fears in Dauntless which is, well…four fears.  He was the instructor for the group of initiatives in Tris’ group.  He starts falling for Tris and soon the both of them start a relationship.  (That is in book one.)  Tris describes him as handsome, though he his nose curves.  Tobias’ original faction is Abnegation and then he changed to Dauntless to escape the physical abuse of his father, Marcus.

Eric: Eric is the leader of Dauntless.  A lot has changed since he became leader of Dauntless; the initiations have become extremely brutal and he sees suicide as “brave.”  He is a Dauntless traitor, though.  He teamed up with Jeanine, and put innocent people of his faction under Jeanine’s simulation to make them kill even more innocent, kind Abnegation members. 

Jeanine: Jeanine is an evil person.  She tried to kill Tris by putting her in a glass box, and having it fill up with water to drown Tris.  Jeanine doesn’t care about people, just her scientific research.  She’ll do anything to get what she wants.  She doesn’t care about killing innocent people to get what she wants.  She rebelled against the government (Abnegation), by killing as many Abnegation as she could.  Though, unlike any other dystopian books, it’s not the protagonist rebelling, this time it’s the antagonist rebelling because Jeanine wanted to keep what she had; she didn’t want things to change because chaos was happening outside the fence.  To her it was, “Who cares?  I’m safe and that’s what matters.  Now, let me have power and control everyone!  Let me continue my so amazing scientific research!”