History Literature / PosterGirl

* HeelFaceTurn: While she did anything particularly evil, [[spoiler: beyond snitching on Grace Ward to her father]] Sonya starts out seeing herself and her family as victims of the rebels and follows main of the maximes of the Delegation she was raised with, despite the regime having fallen ten years ago. As the story goes on her views begin to change further and further, as her walls of denial about the regime begin to crumble, [[spoiler: eventually culminating in her learning the true extend of the regimes crimes and her fathers complicitly in them, to the point she eventually reveals the full extend of them to the public. At the end of the story she works hard to build a new life for herself beyond what happened in the past. ]]

* HeelFaceTurn: While she did anything particularly evil, [[beyond snitching on Grace Ward to her father]] Sonya starts out seeing herself and her family as victims of the rebels and follows main of the maximes of the Delegation she was raised with, despite the regime having fallen ten years ago. As the story goes on her views begin to change further and further, as her walls of denial about the regime begin to crumble, [[eventually culminating in her learning the true extend of the regimes crimes and her fathers complicitly in them, to the point she eventually reveals the full extend of them to the public. At the end of the story she works hard to build a new life for herself beyond what happened in the past. ]]

* TrophyWife: [[spoiler: The fate the Delegation had in mind for Sonya, as Aaron's wife.]]

* StartingANewLife: After ten years in the Aperture those who were still teenagers/children when they came there are allowed to leave. Taking on a new name they are allowed to reintegrate themselves into society. Sonya`s friends Ashley, Shona and Nicole all took this chance, amongst others, making Sonya the youngest person to remain in the Aperture at the beginning of the story. [[spoiler: Ultimatley this becomes Sonya's fate as well, though she keeps her name. She leaves the Megalopolis behind alltogether and starts a new life in a place called Desert Eden where nobody knows who she is. Though she sends occasional letters back to the friends she has left.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Grace Ward is dead, having been killed by Sonya's father shortly after she was reported, destroying Sonya's hopes of redeeming herself by reuinting her with her parents. Still she has made peace with Alexander and they have exposed Easton Turner for his involvement in the Regime and the Analog Army. Ultimatley Sonya leaves the Megalopolis behind to start a new life, were she despite having lost pretty much everyone and everything can finally life a life of her own, a free woman.]]

Poster Girl is a novel by Veronica Roth, the author of the Literature/{{Divergent}} Series, published in 2022. [[quoteright:500:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/51tgxeadonl_sy445_sx342.png]]

* AffablyEvil: Most inhabitants of the Aperture appear as reasonably nice, if bitter, people, despite most of them still believing in the Regime they once served and refusing to accept it's crimes.

Poster Girl is a novel by Veronica Roth, the author of the Literature/{{Divergent}} Series, published in 2022.

* DarkSecret: [[Sonya was the one ratted out Grace Ward to the Delegation via her father, using the Des Coin she got for it to "pay" for her first time with Aaron.]]

* SoleSurvivor: Sonya is the only member of her family who survived the downfall of the Delegation

Like most of Roth's Previous Works it is set in a Dystopian Future United States. In this case in a MegaCity formed in the Northwest between Seattle and Portland. Though unlike her previous works Poster Girl serves as a Prespective Flip taking place after the Dystopian Regime, the Delegation, has been overthrown by a revolution and replaced by a entity known as the Triumvirate. Furthermore the Main Character, Sonya Kantor was no brave rebel like Tris Prior but instead the titular Poster Girl for the Delegation, having been chosen as the face for it's latest batch of propaganda posters before the Revolution took place.

* SinsOfOurFathers: Several of the younger people in the Aperture were put there on account of being the children of important figures in the Delegation. After ten years in the ghetto the Triumvirate finally released everyone who had been below eighteen years old at time of incarceration. Everyone but Sonya that is.

* ElectronicEyes: Under the Delegation every citizen was equipped with the Insight Eye implant, as a projector for information and media, but also a camera constantly monitoring the person, rewarding/punishing them for their actions (see below). Since the Revolution only the people within the Aperture still have their insights, everyone else had theirs removed [[spoiler: or so they think.]]

* SinsOfOurFathers: Several of the younger people in the Aperture were put there on account of being the children of important figures in the Delegation. After ten years in the Ghetto the Triumvirate finally released everyone who had been below eighteen years old at time of incarceration. Everyone but Sonya that is.

* PaterFamilicide: As their hiding place was discovered by the Rebels Sonya`s father lead his family into collective suicide dying alongside his wife and older daughter. Only Sonya survived on account of not taking the pill.