Insurgent: Success Or Failure

You never want to judge a book on its cover. Read it and determine whether it is what says it is. Some books are great while others just aren’t satisfying or take a long time to build up. I will be determining whether the book, Insurgent, is an amazing book or just a failure. So far, the protagonist, Tris Prior, wakes up in the Amity compound and spends a couple days there, but is ultimately driven out by Dauntless traitors. They enter a train filled with factionless and soon find Tobias’s supposedly dead mother. The factionless and Dauntless later create a plan and try to infiltrate the Erudite headquarters to destroy Jeanine and their information. Tris realized that that particular information was crucial to the factions’ fate. She then …show more content…
The action was very immediate at the start with the Dauntless traitors finding Tris, Tobias, Caleb, Peter, and Marcus at the Amity compound. “I hear a heavy thump and a scream. There are screams everywhere, to my left, to my right. Gunshots. The Abnegation are dying again, dying like they were when I pretended to be under the simulation. And all I’m doing is running.” (Roth 84) As they are running away from the Erudite, multiple Abnegation are shot down. Bullets streak past their faces as they run. The action only picks up more once they reach the fence. They hop onto an oncoming train that is filled with factionless. A small battle ensues but only last long enough for Tobias to speak his name, which made the factionless know whom he is. So the beginning starts off rather …show more content…
It could be just the fact that my mind likes to wander quite a bit, especially during reading, but I do think the confusion could derive from the serum and simulation usage in the context of the story. “’We can’t get out of here,’ I say. ‘ because this is a simulation.’” He pulled me to my feet with my right hand. The real Tobias would have remembered the wound in my right shoulder. “’What?’ He scowled at me. ‘Don’t you think I would know if I was under a simulation?’ ‘You aren’t under a simulation. You are the simulation.’” (Roth 373) It was at this point that I was already confused on Tobias’s plan and how he managed to escape after he told Tris the plan and, honestly, how the plan would even work. In the midst of that confusion, Roth throws in some more confusion with whether or not the reality she is in at that moment is real or fake. It really sets me off and that particular section of the book had a bit off