by Veronica Roth
Divergent falls into the fiction genre
called dystopian. This genre is defined
by books that are set in a time or place
where the conditions of life are extremely bad, because of things like
deprivation, oppression, or terror. In
my day there were two greats, Fahrenheit
451 and 1984, though I think we
just called them science fiction. I must
say that as a teenager I loved these books as much as I do today. Reading 1984
was really strange for me as I read it in the year 1984 as a junior in high
school. Between George Orwell and Prince
I was sure that my life would be a short or very strange one. Read More
