#artifact hunt

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Handpainted mini book bookends

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If Emily Hughes from Since You’ve Been Gone was on Snapchat, her summer scavenger hunt may have looked something like this.

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This is Silver Voss and I have a secret

*Volume may be low. Garageband and I are not friends.

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Dear Past Mallory,

This may come as quite a shock but adult you is in a book club. (Well, sort of, you live far away, but you do your best to keep involved.) I know you think you don’t like to read, but it’s just because you haven’t found your genre. The last person to suggest something you actively enjoyed was Mr. Stumm in 4th grade (yay Greek mythology, supernatural elements, and dystopias!) and that’s so sad. I’m here to tell you that you’ve discovered your taste and found people that share it. A few of those people have organized a competition and one of the tasks is to basically recommend a book to your teenaged self. They also mentioned something about being too self-focused to be aware of a world issue and the book should somehow wake you up to said issue, and holy crap, is self-focused a great way to describe you! Seriously, everyone else is just as self-conscious as you are so get over it; you’ll be so much happier and much nicer. Which leads me to my selection for you: The Divergent trilogy. Okay, so technically it’s three books, but you can’t talk about one without the others. “Let me explain… No, there is too much. Let me sum up.”

dystopian future 

social experiment 

teenagers chose factions to be a part of for the rest of their lives 

factions - Erudite, Dauntless, Amity, Candor, Abnegation

main character (who is a girl, woo-hoo!) fits into many factions, thus is *divergent*

Needless to say, things don’t work out with the faction system. Here’s the thing I want you to focus on. I know you and you would totally choose Erudite. You equate intelligence to status and success. Let me tell you something. There are 5 factions plus the factionless and the outside world. The only ones that are happy are Amity. And that’s potentially all serum-induced. Here’s the thing. As an adult, you’d totally choose Amity. You’ve taken the tests and you’re totally Divergent, but you’d choose Amity because they’re happy and kind. But still strong. They stand up against the technology of Erudite and the training and military might of Dauntless. Kindness can give you the strength of the Dauntless. It makes you want to help like those in Abnegation. It can soften the truths presented by Candor. It helps you understand and relate to people in a way the Erudite can’t. Yes, the basis of the trilogy is that we want to be Divergent. We want to have a balance of all of the traits that each faction represents. I’m here to tell you, the experiment wouldn’t have happened, the crash of society wouldn’t have happened, the revolution with countless deaths wouldn’t have happened if all of our actions stemmed from roots of kindness. That is why the tree is their symbol and that is a lesson any world needs to learn.

-Present Mallory (that’s Future Mallory to you)

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I had a Nidoran follow me to the library. 

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