Gabriel’s eyes are significant because everyone else in the community has brown eyes and he, a girl fifth, and Jonas have pale eyes. I predict that people with pale eyes are special and those three come from the same birth mother. I think pale eyes mean something important and will have a huge impact on the story. This relation may include defiance to the land they live in and won’t have to listen to the rules. I already know Jonas will receive great power as one of the elders. So maybe Gabe and that five will become great too.
Day: 8 November 2014
Every minute and every second; I struggle. Anxiety flows through my body: In my blood. Anxiety is in my bones, muscles. Each time my heart beats, stress pumps through me. A pounding head. Any second I could do it. Yet guilt and fear of choosing one and not the other is agonizing. For the one I don’t choose could take advantage of my guilt. What is my anxiety? Food. I know it sounds silly, but it’s true. Food. What kind of food? Mexican. To be more specific, tacos and burritos.
Tacos are irresistibly good, the crunch of the shell, the spice of the chili, the tenderness of the steak, and the taste of everything else. This is taco. My favourite food tied with burrito.
Burritos. Soft, warm tortilla. Stringy cheese that melts in your mouth. Tasty sour cream. Fresh tomatoes and chilli mashes up and makes salsa. All irresistibly good.
Every time I go in a restaurant -with my family- that serves both tacos and burritos, I fall in a trance of anxiety. It’s the menu and I. Alone. Everyone else disappears and my heart beats in super speed. That is why I don’t want the choice between foods. Especially if it’s tacos and burritos.
There are two things that I think stirrings could be. 1. Is a wet dream and feeling for someone that they want to stop because they want to control the population and it’s already someone’s job to have kids. That would ruin that job. Then slowly ruining other jobs. It’s like a pyramid made out of cards. One falls and the whole thing is ruined.
2. Maybe stirrings are you stirring in your sleep. Waking up from blindness of the fact that not everything has to be perfect. Not everything-down to the tiniest detail-has to be regulated. I think stirrings are you waking up from the grasp of the government and wanting freedom from the outside moment. Maybe its realization that there’s something beyond their world and beyond anything they know.
In an additional (bonus) page in Divergent, it says that Veronica Roth’s (author of the Divergent series) hero is Louis Lowry’s book the Giver. They are both similar stories. A Utopian society with rebels crawling everywhere, an unknown outside world. Some other things too. That’s my AHA moment. Where I connected those two stories.
At the House of the Old, they stop taking pills. I think it’s because of the fact that they’re too old and not able to get that freedom. So stirrings happen to them but aren’t able to find their way to freedom from the government.