Post #6: What point is Veronica Roth trying to make through writing Insurgent?

As the main characters move from faction to faction throughout the Divergent series, Veronica Roth shows readers that although everyone is different, there is always something to learn from one another.

Tris is one of the main characters in the series. She grew up in Abnegation, a faction dedicated to selflessness. She transferred to the Dauntless faction, a faction committed to bravery and fearlessness. When an attack was launched on the Abnegation faction and the city was left in chaos, Tris took refuge at the Amity compound. The Amity are peaceful, kind, forgiving, and self-sufficient people. The Erudite faction, the ones who lead the attack on Abnegation, tries to be knowledgeable and intelligent.

On page 269, Tris says, "Sometimes I feel like I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always something to learn, always something that is important to understand." In this quote, I think Tris captures the importance of learning from one another. In her society, people are not encouraged to learn from one another. They are supposed to live with the faction they most agree with for their whole lives, and not have any interaction with the other factions. Eventually, the factions break out into war against one another.

I think this shows the importance of learning from one another, even if you don't always agree with them. If you're only exposed to people with the same opinions as you for your whole life, when you actually do come in contact with someone who has different views than you, you won't know how to react to them. I think that's part of why the factions are at war with one another in the book.

Veronica Roth wants readers to realize that they need to be exposed to different types of people and learn from them so that fighting doesn't occur when disagreements happen.