Log#7

Log 7

  After reading the novel Divergent, I couldn’t help but search for the series immediately. The second book of the series is called Insurgent. Although the book is mainly the story that is similar to the first one, it taught me a lot of lessons the first one did not.

 

1.      Leadership

As a college student, I usually hear people ask us to have a good leadership. However, being a leader is not as easy as people might think about. Actually, being a leader sometimes needs skills. In Insurgent, there is a leader from the faction of Erudite. She is one of the people who started the holocaust to Abnegation. She is really smart, but that’s all. She was a leader who would be willing to leave no means untried just to control everyone. After reading this books, I found that a leader should not be a dictator. People might not be obedient if you just keep giving orders.

2.      Being honest might hurt people.

In the book, the female leading role Tris killed her friend’s Christina’s boyfriend, Will. Although it happened because Will was the one trying to kill Tris first, Tris still feels really bad. As a result, when Christina asked her if she saw Will, Tris lied to Christina. She was afraid that once she tells the truth, Christina would be mad at her even it was just self-defense. However, all the truth came out when Tris was forced to insert the truth serum. She told the truth that she killed Will. Christina did not talk to her anymore.

As for Tris’s boyfriend Tobias, he noticed that there was something wrong about Tris, but he was truly surprised that Tris kept the secret to herself. he was frustrated, but he decided to forgive her in the end.

From these two perspectives, I realized that truth sometimes does hurt people. However, not telling the truth will make things worse and give people unnecessary hopes. It is better to tell the truth so that you will always feel guilty for the rest of your life.

  In the parts I just read, these two are the most impressing things I learned. I think that they are important lessons for me to keep learning in my life. Since I might get the chance to become a leader or the chance to decide whether to lie or not, I will choose better ways to deal with them.