Monday Muses- Childhood

     The best Christmas of my life was also a sad one.

     It was awesome because I was 6 years old and still believed in Santa Claus. So I woke up at 3am and snuck downstairs and saw a HUGE pile of present’s waiting for me and my brother. So I ran upstairs as fast as I can and threw myself into my mom’s bed. I shook her and yelled “Mommy mommy Santa came let’s go!” She looked at the clock and saw how early it was but she didn't care. She got up and told me to wake up my brother. So I threw myself onto his bed and shook him awake. His eyes lit up when I told him that it was time to open presents. So almost the whole family went downstairs and gathered around the Christmas tree with all the lights off and the Christmas lights on and we put a Christmas CD into the music player and listened to it while we opened presents.

     Almost the whole family.

     Me and my brother loved all of the presents we got from “Santa” and our eyes lit up with excitement and joy as we opened each present. But my mom’s eyes lit up even more than ours when she saw our reactions. Me and my brother took turns opening presents so that my mom could focus on only one of us at a time since she was the only one watching us open them.

     She was the only one.

     Where was my dad?

     He wasn't here, was all I knew at the time. And that’s actually still all that I know about the situation now. A lot of people think that their issues about their parents not getting them the things that they wanted and not getting the coolest things.

     But no. An actual problem is when one of your parents isn't even there to see their children open their presents. An actual problem is when back then you actually had money to make “a Christmas list for Santa.”

     Those are real problems. 

Theme- Divergent

     In the book "Divergent" by Veronica Roth, the book so far is revolving around making choices and choosing your own life style and what you want to do with your life. I think this is an important theme in this book.
     One example of choosing your own life style is the aptitude test. The aptitude tests are test that will help someone think more clearly about what faction you will want to live in. The 5 factions are Candor, Euridite, Amity, Abnegation, and Dauntless. Abnegation is the main character Tris' birth faction. Abnegation are people who hate selfishness ad selflessness. Tris hated it there because she thought that life was to boring and she didn't like that life style. But she was going to stay there because she did't want to disgrace her family and make them feel bad. But she decided that she would be miserable if she did that, so she choose the Dauntless faction, the faction that hated cowardice. This is one example of this theme.
     Another example of choosing your own life style is when Caleb, Tris' brother, choose the Euridite faction, the faction that hates ignorance. This is and example because everyone thought that Caleb was going to stay with Abnegation. But Caleb didn't care if everyone in Abnegation hated him for being the first in the choosing ceremony to leave that faction. And he didn't care that Abnegation and Euridite were supposed to be natural enemy's, he choose what life style he would be most happy with. This is another example of this theme.
     Another example is Tris' decisions that she made during the aptitude test. She decided to question the test  and not do what it told her to do,which caused consequences. And even when the test gave her another chance she decided not to do what it said. This caused her to be Divergent, a person whos aptitude test can not choose on one faction that the person would be best for. This is according to the book very dangerous so Tris can't speak about her being Divergent to anyone. This is another example of this theme.
     At first, this book seemed a little slow for me, but it quickly changed after the 1st chapter. I can't wait to finish this book and move on to the 2nd book.