In the books I am reading, I have found that young adults are treated much differently in each book.  In divergent, The main character was treated as if she was a mature adult. She was given many responsibilities that most 16 year olds would not have. She confronts death so many times that she becomes more brave than anybody else. She is stripped of her childhood and very different because of her unfortunate experiences.

                                                                                                                             

However in all of her experiences, she becomes a much better person. She struggles with the fact that she was forced to kill a good friend of hers, and is haunted by it. She ends up being attacked in so many different ways and having issues because she is different. Everyone is scared of somebody who is different. This is shown with every type of racist out there, or anyone who is afraid of another people.

In the Chocolate War, the main character decided to rebel against the the whole school. The author treats him as hopeless, and despondent boy who does not know what he is getting into. In the end he got beat up and ended u having to go to the emergency room. The principal watched and did not care. He was shown to be not the smartest kid. However, he seems more mature than the main character in Divergent

The two books treat the young adults very differently. In one, The kid seems so much smarter and strong, but the other story ends up with the kid being beat up because he messed up. He only had 2 adults on his side, and one was attempting to make him fail his class, because someone stole his homework.