Final Blogging Assessment English 1B

From Real Life Issues in the Text

In Allegiant, you can really see some of the real life issues that are reflected in the text. The main issue is just human nature in general. How humans can have the tendency to separate people and consider themselves more superior for whatever reason. This is shown in the book by the "genetically pure" group of people who consider themselves superior.  They give themselves higher jobs in the government than the "genetically damaged" people. They also blame them for all crimes that occur and are basically racist towards them. Here, Tris explains how the "higher up" people see others, "To them, the people in our city are just containers of genetic material-just GDs [Genetically Damaged], valuable for the corrected genes they pass on but not for the brains in their heads or the hearts in their chests." (Roth 377).


Behavior like this is shown many times throughout history, the Holocaust, segregation in America, peasants in the Middle Ages, etc. One example is during Hitler's rise to power in Germany when he blamed the Jews for all of Germany's problems and used them as a scapegoat. Another example is in America before Martin Luther King when blacks and whites were segregated in all parts of daily life. Bathrooms, bus seats, lines, schools, everything. Also in the Middle Ages with Kings and Nobles thinking that peasants were worth nothing and deserved to be treated like dirt. There are plenty of examples of humans behaving like this throughout history even though we are all created equal. In Allegiant, the only difference is someone's "genetically pure" genes. These genes don't actually cause a change in the person and shouldn't cause that person to be looked down upon.