Veronica Roth's Divergent Essay

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Divergent, it is a kind of people that are out of control from the world. Many people think Divergent are dangerous and weird, so people do not like Divergent. If they find out any, they kill them instead. The author of this trilogy novel is Veronica Roth, who’d been writing this story since she was studying in the university. Divergent is an adventure story, including youth and love. I chose to read this story because it is also a famous movie, but I’ve never watched it before, most of my friends said that this is a good story, made me really interested about it.

This is a story between 5 factions, Each person should choose a faction when they are in the age of 16, or they will become factionless. But, there is also a kind of people that is not controlled by the government, these people
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Her name before in Abnegation was Beatrice. She goes to an aptitude test for factions and found out that she is a Divergent. The Dauntless examiner, Tori, told Beatrice that she was NOT suppose to tell anyone her test result, because she will easy to die if someone tells the government. She faction transfers into Dauntless and fell in love with her Dauntless instructor Four.
Four: He is Tris’ instructor in Dauntless. His real name is Tobias, he used to be an Abnegation member when he was little. He faction transfers to Dauntless to protect himself from domestic violence. His father is the Abnegation leader, Marcus, and his mom died when he was small. He fell in love with Tris, and always protects her when she got bullied by others.
Eric: He is Tris’ bad Dauntless instructor, doesn’t like Tris much, and hates Four. He was in the 2nd place of the rank in his training, but Four got the 1st place.
Jeanine: She is an evil Erudite leader, wants to control the whole world and doesn’t like Abnegation at all, always want to say something bad or even fake about Abnegation. She is now chasing Divergent, the most cold-blood person in the

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