Divergent Chapter 4-7

So I have been reading Divergent still and loving it. I start back with Chapter 4. Beatrice is back in the Abnegnation neighborhood and she starts to think if she wants to be there. She wishes she felt like she could be ok with just wearing grey and boring.  When her parents ask her how the test went she lies to them. Beatrice’s dad starts venting about his government job and how his coworker Marcus’s son Tobias left Abnegation fraction for Dauntless because Marcus was abusing him.

After the aptitude test is the choosing ceremony when 16-year olds have to choose their fraction. At the ceremony, each 16 year old gets cut and puts some blood in a bowl symbolizing one of the fractions. The bowls are filled with grey stones from Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, and glass for Candor.  

Marcus (Beatrice’s dad’s coworker) gives a speech about democracy and choice. Caleb goes before Beatrice and surprises everyone by choosing Erudite. So now Beatrice feels like she can't abandon her parents… but she chooses Dauntless anyway.

Chapter 7 starts after the choosing ceremony and Beatrice leaves with the Dauntless. She then starts the initiation into the Dauntless.  To get to their home, Beatrice has to jump on a moving train. Beatrice gets help from another transfer, a girl from Candor named Christina. They see another transfer not get on the train which means he's factionless. Then they have to jump off the moving train, which is initiation challenge 2. Beatrice helps Christina jump and another candidate misses the roof and falls and dies. Initiation challenge 3 is jumping from the roof into a big hole in the ground. Beatrice wants to show she can be brave, so she jumps first. At the bottom of the hole Beatrice meets Four, who is an important guy in Dauntless. He was impressed that she was brave enough to jump first. At the end of the chapter she gets to pick a new name and she chooses Tris. 

No To White Queen - Yes to Divergent

So I made a huge mistake and started watching the Starz version of the White Queen and now I can't seem to get back into the book. Normally, I like to read the book before I watch the movies. I was recording all the episodes but I couldn't hold out.
I have been hearing all about the new book series by Veronica Roth. Divergent, Convergent and I guess Allegiant comes out soon. I bought the first two books a few months ago and I didn't know when I would get around to reading them. This PRABE gives me a good opportunity.

So I started reading Divergent and I need to just stick with it. It started to confuse me. In the beginning we meet the main character Beatrice Prior.  For some reason they have only one mirror and it is normally covered up. They start talking about how Beatrice was born into the Abnegation fraction and she has a brother Caleb. Beatrice doesn't seem to like to be in that fraction?
Now that Beatrice is 16 she will take a test to show what faction she belongs in and then be able to choose her faction. This choice is FOREVER.

In chapter 2 the aptitude test starts and it tells you what fraction you fit in the best with. You can choose what it says or you can choose a different one. No one gets to see how they do on the test. Beatrice waits for her turn and she was born in the Abnegation family but she doesn't think she fits. She then meets this girl Tori who is a Dauntless. So the test starts and it is in like a virtual reality where she chooses what to do. For example she comes up on a dangerous dog, does she give it cheese, attack it with a knife, or does she play submissive so it wont attack her.

In chapter 3 the girl Tori that gave her the test is confused by her results. Beatrice starts to freak out because she doesn't want to be fractionless.  They told her she had three options Abnegation, Dauntless, and Erudite. Since she is some of all this means she is Divergent. So then she has to choose which fraction she will choose. Tori tells her to keep her Divergence super secret because it's super dangerous.

So this is about how far I got...super good but all the fractions are really confusing.

New Class New PRABE blog - The White Queen

Well, here we go again! Now that I am taking four classes my homework load has increased dramatically. My time to read has also gone down but I guess I need to start up again I guess.  They are showing a mini series called The White Queen. I had heard that they were making a series based on the books, The White Queen, The Red Queen and the Kingmakers Daughter. I have always been obsessed with any book from English history based on the kings and queens. So before the mini series got released I wanted to read the book. My mom had the book, The White queen so I started it this week. The problem is that I didn't want to do anything but read this book. Basically, this is the story about the kings and queens before the Tutor's. Elizabeth Woodville is a Lancaster and after Edward of York defeats the current King Henry VI he comes upon Elizabeth on the side of the street.  Elizabeth not only succeeds in getting Edward to return her lands to her, but also causes Edward to fall in love with her. A Lancaster woman and a York king. Elizabeth swears that she is too virtuous to be Edwards mistress and so, since he decides that he must have her, he marries Elizabeth in a secret ceremony.

I can't wait to continue this story to find out what happens after this secret marriage.