Nonconformity In The Movie Divergent

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When the transcendental thought of “nonconformity” is brought to one’s mind, there is no better reference than the movie Divergent made in year 2014. A teenager named Tris Prior is living her life in a pioneering world in which society is divided into five factions. As each individual enters adulthood, he or she must commit a faction for their entire life. However there are some people are known as “Divergents” who do not fit in just one faction and thus are not accepted by their society. Furthermore, while Tris had already committed herself to the Dauntless faction, she later finds out she is a Divergent and she is warned to conceal her status otherwise face the consequences of society. She later instigates a war between nonconformist Divergents

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