A Playlist for Divergent by Tessa Rose

by Tessa Rose

I choose “Some Nights” by fun. because it explains in the lyrics that “some nights I stay up casting in my bad luck.” And that is how I imagine Tris’ night went. On page 36 and 37 I could imagine how hard it was to sleep that night. How confused she was of her brother actually thinking of himself. This was the night before she and the other 16 year olds chose a faction.


I chose “Too Close” by Alex Clare because I felt like the song represents her going with her gut feeling with the situation she was in. That is why I chose “Too Close”. This part In Divergent on page 47 was about the choosing ceremony. When she feels like she has to stay because her brother chose another faction. This is the part where when she sliced her hand with the knife her hand quickly moved from the middle to the Dauntless side.


I chose “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” by Green Day to represent the part in Divergent where she / Tris is walking home from school after the test before the factionless man asks if she had something to eat. On page 24 and 25 when she is explaining what it is like living factionless. Her mom says it’s worse than death. I believe “Boulevard of broken dreams” represents that part because in the song and book it explains that this is where people lost / broke their dreams.


I chose America beauty movie theme because the relationships between the song and the part of the book was the rhythm. The part in the book was pages 52-53 , it was riding the train before she jumps off. It’s like she wasn’t even thinking about why they were on the train or how they were getting off. She was thinking about who was going to set the dinner table that night and how her mother and father felt about the situation. In the real world you would think it’s going fast because the train is going fast but it’s not, it’s all going slow in her head. Like she’s in another world. That was how the train ride was for her, a melody.



I chose The middle by Jimmy Eat the World because of its relationship to the book. That relationship would be that the song lyrics go perfectly to what I think she is feeling in that part. At first she’s intrigued but then the real “dauntless” go in a different direction than the nine intense. Only nine of were not born dauntless. She was the only Abnegation transfer there. It seems that Four didn’t appreciate being laughed at. So she feels like she needed to be careful around him, it seemed almost wary now to her.