Divergent By Veronica Roth Essay

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Divergent by Veronica Roth is a story about a sixteen-year-old girl named Beatrice Prior who lives in a futuristic Chicago city, which includes five different factions – Erudite (the intelligent), Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), and Dauntless (the brave). Every year at the Choosing Ceremony, all sixteen-year-olds including Beatrice will have the opportunity to choose a faction that they belong in and the decision Beatrice makes is the Dauntless faction, which not only surprises the people around her, but surprises herself as

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