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beyond the barricade
Meredith, 21.
Nerd, aspiring writer, college student, and procrastinator extraordinaire.
tagged as
# ya lit
# book:
# divergent
# good
# this really bothered me in the book and i'm glad she was mature enough to take a second look at her work and admit her mistake
# that takes guts and i respect her for it
# but the one thing she didn't mention
# was how the attack was also used as a catalyst to build up the relationship between tris/four
# and that was what really bothered me
# ya lit
# book:
# divergent
# good
# this really bothered me in the book and i'm glad she was mature enough to take a second look at her work and admit her mistake
# that takes guts and i respect her for it
# but the one thing she didn't mention
# was how the attack was also used as a catalyst to build up the relationship between tris/four
# and that was what really bothered me
Some insights from Veronica into Tris’ character and a mistake she wishes she could take back from the first book.
This month is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. And in the past year, I’ve seen a lot of blog posts from very smart people about a new and problematic trend in YA: the “throwaway” sexual assault trope. This trope is included to artificially raise the stakes in a plot or situation, or to further establish how bad a villain is, but it doesn’t actually affect the character all that much moving forward. It is problematic to include a sensitive issue in your work as a plot device only, without making it important for the character. Not just on a moral level, but on a storymaking level, too.
