Its been over a week since I last finished reading 'Allegiant' and Im still shocked at how the story you developed strucked me. I honestly live for impacts like this, actualy going around and searching endlessly for things to move me in this way and inspire me as your books did, fulfilling more of my expectations than what I could have possibly have known. I can assure you the universe of 'Divergent' is something I will treasure for the rest of my life.
I admit having no idea of what I signed for when some friends took me to see the film adaptation, I guess I have trouble sometimes being permeable enough to open myself up for things I dont know, new experiences. I guess that to a point uncertainty really scares me, preventing me from learning new things, wanting instead to only apply what I already am capable of. Not because I believe its a full circle but because I dont know how to open it sometimes. It ends up being quite hard for me to experience whatever I wasnt expecting to since, like Four, the impulse of closing and hiding comes to me as natural as breathing. I saw a lot of myself in him.
The movie blew my mind each time every time I watched it, which was many, and it didnt take me much to move forward to the book trilogy, which I swallowed over a week. Having read them one after the other provided me with a great, fresh perspective of the full story and the evolution of its characters. I really cherish and appreciate that contingency made it that way.
In each book I witnessed the unfolding of a reflextion that started with the position of one girl against her destiny and later it started to unfold into the critique of her culture and its values, then her society and, finally, the world and everything she knew, especially her conception of what it is to Be and, specifically, to be Human. I love Tris' journey discovering and building the significance of the Divergence and what it means to be different in a world where "being" and "difference" seem to dissociated, terms which actually to me would imply each other. Its in this way that I could totally line 'Divergent' down together with writings from Marx, Foucault and Levi-Strauss. Your ability as a writer is simply exquisite.
Another thing I loved from the saga was watching Tris' growth as a woman in her journey to Dauntless and beyond, it made me gain so much respect for her as a female and to what it is to be one. She started being this small, weak, control-less and frigid child and turned all of that into fuel for what would be her strength, she emerged as a Phoenix from among every she first seemed to lack, turning her wounds into living proof that she survived her fights. I was stunned by this. The concept of fear as an awakener intrigues me a lot and would love to experience it myself, which I think I will since I grew along Tris and made her fortitude mine.
Thats where I think about her state as a woman, given the perception of them all along Occidental Culture, portraiting them as weak, defenseless beings corrupted with the irracionality of emotions (everything Tris manifested to be). In that way, Tris is a representative of that. But this book has proved me how in those atributes that men would find shameful and irrelevant lays the key and the raw material for growth and strenght, having Tris exploded her "flaws" and turned them into her resources instead of fighting or placate them. I believe Tobias was also able to learn that lesson. We both thank Tris and yourself for that. Having shown what a real person is capable to do, regardless what gender you are. Its up for all to achieve if we want to, if we dare to. Which not everyone, male or female (each from its perspective), seem to find easy to do.
I saw myself a lot on both Tobias and Tris, a in way that really trascends this letter, to the point in which I started to doubt who was living the story, if it was them or me. Lines became blurry the more I dived into their minds, hearts and souls, which is a guarantee only provided by the effects of the written book. I had forgot what that felt like. I dont remember the last time Ive been cried like this, nor do I remember the last time I cried. Not because nothing had happened to me, but when was the last time I was soo deepily moved by a piece of art. Now I do know and that feeling is what has been staying with me ever since I had to rush to my work's bathroom in order to get through the last 80 pages of 'Allegiant'. Thank you for making me revisit the emotional mess in me because, just like Tris, it made me grow. Ive promised myself to be more womanly from now on.
I would continue endlessly if it was to me, but I would like to finish this by adressing the value of the expression: "be brave". Thank you for enunciating it. I bet you knew it had many power to it but I dont think you really knew how far it could reach. For me, its gonna be the rest of my life. To you, I say: Thank you and be brave too.
Sincerely,
Gastón, a 23 year old psychologist from Argentina who re-discovered the pleasure of chanllenging himself to read in English who owes you for a life a big and deep bear hug.
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