Beatrice's Survival In Divergent By Veronica Roth

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Divergent is all about how the people in the book rebel against the government and fight them,, while they survive. The book divergent has shows the characteristics of secrecy, friendship, risk and fear are all shown through the main character of the book, her name is Beatrice.

Survival is explored in the novel divergent when in the book the main character, Beatrice founds out that she is divergent. Not knowing what that means she has to keep it a secret. Although she doesn't understand the importance of being divergent she has to keep it to herself in order to survive in the novel. This can be related to real life, for example if a friend tells you a secret, for that relationship to survive you can't tell you're friends secret to anyone else.

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