In the science fiction novel Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins takes place in the rebuilt district 13. The story also takes place throughout all of Panem and the Capitol. Katniss is the leader of the revolution that she feels guilty for starting. She is essentially the most vital character of them all. Everyone looks up to her as the Mockingjay to support in leading them to get full freedom. She blames President Snow for all of her suffering and her fundamental goal is to kill snow. Gale is of…
Insurgent is a book that is a part of the divergent trilogy. This book starts where divergent ends. Beatrice, her brother Caleb, Marcus, Peter, and her boyfriend Tobias aka Four are leaving their city after an attack on their city. When the train stops they jump off the train and head to the gates to go to Amity. Tobias puts in the code and the gates are unlocked. They go to amity and they are aloud to stay the night, but the next day they will find out whether or not they can stay. Later in the…
Travel El Paso lies in far West Texas, in the area where Mexico, New Mexico and Texas meet. As of 2018, the population estimate from the US census was 686,077. El Paso shares four border crossing with neighboring Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, making a strong player in the international trade business. Unfortunately, Ciudad Juárez has been called "the most violent zone in the world.” Despite having such a notorious neighbor, El Paso ranked among the safest large cities in U.S. for years. El Paso…
Dystopia has been a recurrent theme of popular and literary fiction since way back in the eighteenth century. Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Jonathan Swift’s restraining satire that’s been Disney-fied in the well-liked thoughts into a Lilliputian jape; in fact, the novel’s a lot shadier, posing a harsh appraisal of various portions of modern society criticized of by the Anglican Swift A slightly later, but also prominent, text has got to be Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, first issued anonymously back in…
Veronica Roth Veronica Roth uses the excellent writing craft to write powerful impacting books including Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant, and Four. Veronica’s writing is so descriptive it’s easy for readers to visualize, includes strong character development, and gives morals to the readers. The craft connects the reader’s life to the story, influencing the reader to be brave, take a change, and embrace life as much as you can. Roth adds great detail allowing her readers to visualize. For…
Since the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001 the United States and indeed most of the western world has had something of parlous relationship with Islam. The imminent threat of Islamic extremism has placed the West on egg shells. The recent rise of Donald Trump and his nativist rhetoric has only added to the tension. A recent Brookings Institute poll revealed that 61 percent of Americans hold an unfavorable attitude towards Muslims. Ali Shariati, maintains that there are two types of…
Divergent is a fantastic young adult, dystopian book by Veronica Roth, published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2011. This book is about a girl named Beatrice who lives in a post-apocalyptic Chicago and has to decide on where she truly belongs and where she’ll stay for the rest of her life. As a sixteen year old, this can prove to be a difficult task. I love this story and this is one of my favourite stories that I have ever read. Beatrice Prior lives in a future version of Chicago where…
The genre of Deuteronomy 6:1-9 is law. Law was God’s gift to Israel, a covenant or promise that he made with them that if they lived Godly lives, they would be fruitful in the land he would give them. Often times when people today think of the word “law”, they associate it with being controlled, but in this context it wasn’t seen as a way to hold people back. While it was Israel’s constitution, the main purpose of law was to instruct the Israelites on how to thrive in the promised land and have…
polices, many townspeople had glimpsed the possibility of transcending the tense divisions that had beset their community in the pre-revolutionary period” (67). This shows us that although concord still had ties to British rule, and wanted to remain allegiant to them they still all shared the common interest that they deserved liberty and then would band together to accomplish this common goal. And if that meant going to war against the crown then they would do…
However, Luther strongly opposed the peasant’s revolts. Luther remained allegiant to the noble citizenry of Germany and spoke against the violence of the rebels. In his pamphlet, Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants, he outlined his thoughts on the war. After visiting Thüringen and seeing the reality of the war…