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CHAPTER II VERONICA ROTH AND DIVERGENT
2.1 Biography of Veronica Roth
The following information about Veronica Roth and her works were taken from httpen.wikipedia.orgwikiVeronica_Roth accessed on October 31
st
, 2014. Veronica Roth is an American novelist who was born in New York on
August 19
th
, 1988. When she was five year old, her parents divorced. She grew up with her mother in Barrington, Illinois. Her mother, Barbara Ross is a painter, and
her step dad, Frank Ross is a financial consultant for landscaping companies. Roth is the youngest of three children. Her brother and sister live in Chicago.
Roth graduated from Barrington High School, and she attended a year of college at Carleton College. She transferred to Northwestern University for the
creative writing program, and she graduated in 2010. She wrote her first novel on winter break when she was in her senior year at Northwestern University, her
novel entitled Divergent was published in May 2011. The success of Divergent made her career in writing rise. She was asked to make her novel, Divergent, into
movie adaptation by Summit Entertainment in March 2014. In writing Divergent, the ideas came when Roth was studying exposure
therapy
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in the treatment of phobia. She was curious about phobia and how to treat
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Exposure therapy is a therapy which is done repeatedly by confronting a people with the stimulus that became the reason of their phobia, until their brain tells them not to afraid of it anymore.
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and the experiment of personal obedience to authority figures. She wondered how the strict moral would become if it placed in the right conditions.
In 2012, Roth wrote her second novel which was also the sequel of Divergent
entitled Insurgent, and a short story entitled Free Four. In 2013, Roth wrote Shreds Ashes, an anthology of short story entitled Four: A Divergent
Story Collection and the last book of Divergent entitled Allegiant.
2.2 Synopsis of Divergent
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