Final Blogging Assessment in English 1B.

 The main protagonist in Allegiant is Beatrice (Tris) Prior. She starts in the abnegation faction, the faction of selflessness, and chooses to switch to Dauntless after turning 16. Immediately after making the switch from Abnegation to Dauntless, Beatrice changes her name to Tris and her personality changes along with it. Abnegation members are sort of looked down upon in their society and Tris is effected by this. She doesn't want to be known as the girl from Abnegation or by "Stiff", she wants to be known as Tris. She quickly grows up and learns new customs and an entire new lifestyle. By the end of Divergent, you wouldn't even know that Tris started out as a shy girl from Abnegation. The changes in Tris from Divergent to Allegiant are astonishing. Tris really breaks out of her shell and takes a position as one of the most comonly known people in this society. She has to learn to become a leader, and adapts well. She also has a lot more experience with weapons and has learned to kill, for better or for worse is a decision that you'll have to make. An example from the book that shows this new Tris is , " 'Fire, and I'll shoot him in the head,' I say. 'You wouldn't kill your own leader,' The red-haired woman says, 'He's not my leader, I don't care if he lives or dies,' I say. 'But if you think I'm going to let you gain control of that death serum, you're insane.' "This quote is towards the end of Allegiant and shows how Tris has become a deadly force that can take over a situation. She is now able to cope well with emergencies, and is willing to do whatever it takes to solve an issue, even if that means killing people. I like to think of Tris during her time in Abnegation as a bomb that is slowly ticking away. Once she chooses to switch to Dauntless, the bomb bursts open. At first the explosion is small but as time goes on the fire from the explosion burns up the way that Tris used to live and all of her old habits from Abnegation. As this happens the fire grows and becomes more reckless and out of control, just like Tris does. Throughout all these changes Tris really seems to become a whole new person. But don't take my word for it, see for yourself and read the Divergent Trilogy.

    In this blog post, i used a few aspects of syntax and diction. An example of diction that I used is,  " I like to think of Tris during her time in Abnegation as a bomb that is slowly ticking away. Once she chooses to switch to Dauntless, the bomb bursts open. At first the explosion is small but as time goes on the fire from the explosion burns up the way that Tris used to live and all of her old habits from Abnegation. As this happens the fire grows and becomes more reckless and out of control, just like Tris does." This is a form of abstract/concrete diction. I am comparing the changes in Tris to a bomb that explodes into a fire which is concrete. At the same time, i am using the fire to relate to how Tris' old habits slowly disappear of burn away which is abstract. An example of diction that I use is typically short to medium sentences with a lot of commas such as, "She quickly grows up and learns new customs and an entire new lifestyle." By using short sentences, I can keep the reader engaged and let them think over what I have said instead of worrying about reading long sentences.

    My blogging goal from the beginning of the trimester was to more effectively incorporate specific textual details into my blog in order to back up my blog and keep the reader engaged. I feel like I did a better job of this over the past trimester than I have before, but I think that there is still room for improvement. I have been trying to use quotes as topics for my blog posts and to write about what I'm reading at the moment so I can clearly remember details from the text that can be used in my blogs. For instance in this blog post, i used the following quote, " 'Fire, and I'll shoot him in the head,' I say. 'You wouldn't kill your own leader,' The red-haired woman says, 'He's not my leader, I don't care if he lives or dies,' I say. 'But if you think I'm going to let you gain control of that death serum, you're insane.' " This quote showed how Tris has developed over the course of the story and helps not only back up my point, but engages the reader in something beyond my own writing, In the future I will continue to improve my use of textual evidence because it makes my writing more interesting, and helps support my points and opinions.