Analysis Of Tris 'Choosing Ceremony'

Beatrice Prior is an internally conflicted sixteen year old teenager from the Abnegation faction, where selflessness reigns supreme. She constantly struggles to find her true identity and after her aptitude test is inconclusive, she is warned that she is something called, "Divergent," which is a mysterious and dangerous fate. She realizes that her divergence is the reason why she is different from the others in Abnegation. If anyone were to find out that she were Divergent, awful things would happen to her. This secret influenced Tris’ way of thinking because it made her scared of her future and the burden of her newfound divergence. Therefore, at the Choosing Ceremony Beatrice chooses to join the Dauntless faction because she feels their beliefs …show more content…
She changes when she witnesses her mother fighting in the war when she saved her life. She then looks at her mother and thinks, “She is dressed like my mother and she looks like my mother, but she is holding a gun, and the determined look in her eyes is unfamiliar to me” (439). Her maturity causes her to question how well she actually knows her mother. Her mother ends up admitting to her that she was a member of the Dauntless faction, which she kept a secret from her children all their life. This strengthens Tris’ relationship with her mother because they both have something to bond over, since they both came clean to each other. Unfortunately, Tris’ mother dies soon after and because of this Tris changes in her character. After the death of her mother, it became Tris’ responsibility to lead her family and other Abnegation citizens on a mission to the Dauntless compound and put a stop to the war at hand. “My blood cries out that it belongs to her, and struggles to return to her, and I hear her words in my mind as I run, telling me to be brave” (444). She stepped up and became the leader of this group and with their help, she was able to shut down Jeanine’s serum from controlling the Dauntless people and stop the war. However, along the way to the control room Tris’ father died fighting off a Dauntless guard who moments before was beginning to talk to Tris for the first time since she left Abnegation. “He speaks to me like I’m a peer. Either he has accepted that I am an adult now, or he has accepted that I am no longer his daughter. The latter is more likely, and more painful” (454). The death of her father made Tris more determined and strong-willed to carry out her mission for the people that died for her. “The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people that I hate when the people I love are dead behind me”