Sydney Swigart BP3

In Moylan's preface the first thing he says is "Dystopian narrative is largely the product of the terrors of the twentieth century" (xi). This doesn't really work with Divergent.  Divergent doesn’t really reflect terrors but rather shows what the world could be if everyone was controlled like in the book.  It might reflect terrors but in a way that isn’t quite so obvious.  In Divergent, an important quote is, “It has been this way since the beginning of the great peace, when the factions were formed.  I think the system persists because we’re afraid of what might happen if it didn’t: war” (page 33).  This is something that Moylan doesn’t discuss in his preface; the idea of these wrongs taking place because of the fear of what might happen if they’re gone.  One of Moylan’s main points seem to be that dystopian novels reflect problems in the real world, it isn’t really clear that that is the main point of Divergent although it might include some real world problems.