Divergent Essay

Divergent is a fictional story set in the city of Chicago and based on the character, Beatrice Prior also known as Tris. The society is divided into five different factions, based on various character traits. It is a custom in that society, that a child must remain in his/her parent’s faction until he/she turns sixteen. When they turn sixteen, it is their choice to decide their factions; to decide their future. Beatrice stays with her family in Abnegation until she is of age. Now she must choose whether she wants to change factions or remain in her original faction, Abnegation.
She is not really selfless and is torn between staying with her family, which is expected of her, or joining the Dauntless, which she prefers. On the day of the test, Beatrice’s results are supposedly strange. She is informed in utmost secrecy that she is Divergent, which is very dangerous. She has a choice to stay in Abnegation where all her friends and family are and where her safety lies or join the Dauntless where her passion is. Her friend’s and family’s customs and motivation for her to stay, pressures her by discouraging her heart’s choice.
She is perplexed and confused. …show more content…
This process also included her facing many situations where she had to overcome her friend’s pressures to make some “Dauntless” choices. She finds it important to choose her own way instead of falling into the peer pressure as she is a Divergent. As the initiation process draws to a close, all of the Dauntless are injected with a serum. Tris is helpless as the serum turns the entire faction into killing machines, soldiers. Neither Tris nor Four is affected by it as they are Divergent. She later discovers that this was a plot developed by the Erudite, using the Dauntless, to overthrow the government in Abnegation. The story ends as Tris realizes they are in the middle of a