A Hero’s Journey
Divergent is the story of a futurist “utopian” society, defined by five factions which everyone must live by. Beatrice Prior, a 16 year old girl from the faction, Abnegation, has to choose between staying apart of her original faction or switching to another faction. She chooses Dauntless, which is about bravery, fighting, and protection. She goes through trials and tribulations, but eventually comes out on top, becoming a real Dauntless. Beatrice Prior follows the model of the hero’s journey because she answers a call, resists many temptations, crosses the ultimate threshold, is given a supreme ordeal, and makes a transformation. Beatrice faces her calling when she has to take a test that will determine which faction she …show more content…
The inanities are told that they are to jump down, to what seems like an abyss of darkness. The instructor of the new Dauntless Initiates has given the option of someone volunteering, with Beatrice accepting. Beatrice goes the edge and jumps straight off, falling through the darkness. At the bottom, a man asks what her name is and to choose carefully because this is a start of a new life. Beatrice decides to rename herself Tris. Tris crosses a threshold here because there is no turning back. She knows that she will never go back to her old life, that Beatrice Prior is gone. From here Tris and the other initiates are told that not everyone will become a Dauntless. Each initiate will compete against each other in three categories. This is where Trish faces her supreme ordeal. She knows that she will have to fight and claw her way into becoming a Dauntless. Tris has to push herself to fight and to learn how to use weapons, all while being the smallest initiate. While learning to fight, Tris becomes friends with her instructor, Four. The two develop a love story, while he teaches her how to use her weakness as her strengths. He helps her learn how to fight, how to use a gun and knives, and teaches her how to believe in herself. Tris’s transformation happens one night when she is attacked by three other initiates. Her attackers try to throw her over a bridge, when Four saves her. From here, she knows that the others find her intimidating
Divergent is the story of a futurist “utopian” society, defined by five factions which everyone must live by. Beatrice Prior, a 16 year old girl from the faction, Abnegation, has to choose between staying apart of her original faction or switching to another faction. She chooses Dauntless, which is about bravery, fighting, and protection. She goes through trials and tribulations, but eventually comes out on top, becoming a real Dauntless. Beatrice Prior follows the model of the hero’s journey because she answers a call, resists many temptations, crosses the ultimate threshold, is given a supreme ordeal, and makes a transformation. Beatrice faces her calling when she has to take a test that will determine which faction she …show more content…
The inanities are told that they are to jump down, to what seems like an abyss of darkness. The instructor of the new Dauntless Initiates has given the option of someone volunteering, with Beatrice accepting. Beatrice goes the edge and jumps straight off, falling through the darkness. At the bottom, a man asks what her name is and to choose carefully because this is a start of a new life. Beatrice decides to rename herself Tris. Tris crosses a threshold here because there is no turning back. She knows that she will never go back to her old life, that Beatrice Prior is gone. From here Tris and the other initiates are told that not everyone will become a Dauntless. Each initiate will compete against each other in three categories. This is where Trish faces her supreme ordeal. She knows that she will have to fight and claw her way into becoming a Dauntless. Tris has to push herself to fight and to learn how to use weapons, all while being the smallest initiate. While learning to fight, Tris becomes friends with her instructor, Four. The two develop a love story, while he teaches her how to use her weakness as her strengths. He helps her learn how to fight, how to use a gun and knives, and teaches her how to believe in herself. Tris’s transformation happens one night when she is attacked by three other initiates. Her attackers try to throw her over a bridge, when Four saves her. From here, she knows that the others find her intimidating