As I have been reading the book Divergent I have noticed that the author uses some higher level or complex vocabulary such as "The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that I could choose this"(Divergent Page 39). The word homogeneity means the quality or state of being the same or alike. After learning what this meant it adds a lot to the sentence in that she means everyone was walking in a similar fashion and state. She also says "The room is arranged in concentric circles"(Page 39). by uses more complex and higher level vocabulary it gives a more deeper meaning and understanding to the text. It is weird because she uses higher level vocabulary but she writes in a way that is very easy to understand, if there is an unusual word you may not know there are probably a lot of context clues that you can use to easily figure out the meaning of it.
In the book they had to run and jump off of a moving train onto a nearby rooftop and if you didn't do it you would become factionless. Being factionless is said to be worse than death in the book and its the last thing you would ever want to happen to you. As people were jumping off one missed the jump and fell to her death, "There us a body on the pavement below us; a girl, her arms and legs bent at awkward angles, her hair spread out in a fan around her head."(Page 55). It goes onto say "he stands on the ledge like it's a sidewalk. Like someone didn't just fall to her death from it"(Page 56). The guide or instructor for the group that is leading them on the trip doesn't even acknowledge the fact that a person just fell to her death which shocks Beatrice and shows how much the Dauntless have to deal with pain and loss.
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