I just began reading Allegiant by Veronica Roth, the third novel in the Divergent series consisting of the novels Divergent, Insurgent and Allegiant. For those of you who have been following my posts (2 posts so far), you may have noticed that I skipped the novel Insurgent, due to the fact that of the entire Divergent series, it was the most uneventful novel. The focus of my blog-post this week will be about the author,Veronica Roth, in order to convey to my audience the authenticity and professionalism of the author of a world renown and New York Times best selling series.
The youngest of three children, Veronica Roth was born in New York but soon moved to Barrington, Illinois after her parents divorced when she as five. After graduating from Barrington High School, she enrolled in Carleton College in Minnesota. However, after one year at Carleton, she transferred to Northwestern University in Illinois and graduated with a degree in creative writing. Divergent was her debut novel, written during winter break of her senior year at Northwestern and published in 2011. Divergent is the first book in her acclaimed Young Adult series, followed by the sequels Insurgent (2012) and Allegiant (2013). In late 2013, Roth announced that she will publish a collection of four short stories from the point of view of Tobias Eaton, the second major character in Divergent trilogy.
Most importantly people wonder how Roth ever arrived upon this idea. In an one on one interview published in the back of Divergent, Roth revealed how she came upon the idea that she based Divergent off of. "On a long drive from her home near Chicago to Carleton College in Minnesota—which she attended as a freshman before transferring to Northwestern—Veronica Roth saw on a billboard an image of a person leaping off a building. 'I wondered why someone would do that,' she recalls. 'At the time, I was also taking Intro to Psych and we were studying the treatment of phobias by repeated exposure to fears'"(Roth 574). To furthur elaborate on this idea Roth has made a tangent series in which she will describe the novel from the Prespective of Tobias Eaton (Four).
The youngest of three children, Veronica Roth was born in New York but soon moved to Barrington, Illinois after her parents divorced when she as five. After graduating from Barrington High School, she enrolled in Carleton College in Minnesota. However, after one year at Carleton, she transferred to Northwestern University in Illinois and graduated with a degree in creative writing. Divergent was her debut novel, written during winter break of her senior year at Northwestern and published in 2011. Divergent is the first book in her acclaimed Young Adult series, followed by the sequels Insurgent (2012) and Allegiant (2013). In late 2013, Roth announced that she will publish a collection of four short stories from the point of view of Tobias Eaton, the second major character in Divergent trilogy.
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| Roth's Newest Sub-series from the perspective of Tobias Eaton (Four) |
