Beatrice Prior is the protagonist and narrator of the Divergent series, written by Veronica Roth. Beatrice is a strong-willed sixteen-year-old girl who hates showing weakness. Though she was born in the faction Abnegation, she eventually transferred to Dauntless and must face the fact that she is Divergent. She learns to make her own choices based on what she wants and what it is better for her. To choose a faction is to choose a lifestyle. Right from the start, there is no doubt that this is the most important decision any sixteen-year-old in the book must make. This is the choice they make to choose who they will be. They need to choose whether to leave their family and start a new life. Most of the teenagers pick the faction they got on the aptitude test, but Tris is divergent. She has the skills to be more than one thing in her life. Tris is between choosing Abnegation, her home, and Dauntless, a faction she received the same aptitude for. She was unsure of what is right for her. At last minute, she decides Dauntless, and a life of bravery, over a safe life with her family. It may …show more content…
Some of the quickest choices she made were the ones that had the biggest impact. Her choice to be Dauntless was a choice that separated her from the comfort of her family and the feeling of safety. The decision to kill Will was a decision to save herself at the cost of losing relationships. Choices have effects, both positive and negative. Whether or not there is time to analyze that decision, the outcome is something you must live with. One must focus on the positive side of the outcome. People will forget the bad if you yourself accept your decision. To sum it all up, Decision making can be one of the hardest things one has to do in his or her because of all the possible outcomes. You need to make your own decision based on what you want and what is better for
Divergent was officially released in October 2013- as well as the other books. The plot is about a 16-year-old girl named Beatrice in which the story takes place in a post-apocalyptic version of Chicago- where Veronica currently lives- that is separated into 5 groups called factions ( Abnegation, Amity, Erudite, Candor, and Dauntless). Tris is Abnegation-born but takes an aptitude test where she chooses to become Dauntless. Because she is Divergent (consisting of Abnegation, Dauntless, and Erudite), she must keep it a secret from her Dauntless leaders to protect herself from being hunted down...to her death. Between the pages, she begins to explore her true identity within a society that defines its citizens by social and personality. It also contains a romantic subplot between herself and
The main character in the book Divergent is a girl named Beatrice. Beatrice is developed throughout the book by having to do things that push her out of her comfort zone. Beatrice was born in the faction of Abnegation, where everything is simple and alike. Abnegation values selflessness, but Beatrice doesn’t feel like she is selfless. She decides to change to the faction of Dauntless, who values courage. Beatrice has to do things like jump off trains, and fight people to show she is courageous. She decides to start going byTris, because Beatrice won’t fit in with the dauntless. When Beatrice makes the decision to be a dauntless she says “My fathers eyes burn into mine with a look of accusation’. This is because it was selfish of her to choose to be a Dauntless. Beatrice doesn’t like to be told what to do, and will stand up for what she thinks is right. Beatrice tries to be kind to others, but sometimes she just can’t control herself.
Although Tris is raised in her parents’ faction, at the age of only sixteen she like every other
In Chapters six and seven of Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives by John Laub and Robert Sampson, the lives of numerous men are shared and analyzed. The authors use life history interviews as well as crime history to help explain their theory. They interviewed these men various times throughout their lives, from a very young age up until age seventy. In Chapter six, Laub and Sampson mention the lives of a few men who have turned to desistance, or stopping, in committing crime. There were two subgroups, “nonviolent desisters” and “violent desisters”. These men had tough upbringings, living in deteriorated homes in Boston. Their parents were not supportive and showed little interest in parenting. Throughout the chapter, the men mentioned various turning points that occurred in their lives in which turned them to becoming desistant to crime. The Glueck’s analyzed and interviewed three men. Leon, Henry, and Bruno were the men. Leon’s turning point for his desistance was his marriage. Henry’s turning point stemmed from his decision to enlist in the Marine Corps when he was eighteen. And for Bruno, he said that his turning point was attending The Lyman School for Boys. While the men stressed one specific turning point for them, all three mentioned how all three factors (marriage, the military, as
In conclusion the having a low-paying job and freedom won’t get you anything luxuries and won’t guarantee a higher quality life experience outside of work. Whereas the High-paying job and 60-hour workweek you’re garneted financial security which brings peace of mind and luxuries to your life. In the future you’re able to move up though the job and secure a future for not only yourself but your loved ones to. Therefore taking the High-paying 60-hour workweek job is the best choice in every case.
Something that seems to be working well in Tris’ society is the factions mostly keeping to their own and all contributing to help the society become better. Erudite controls the social media and newspapers, Abnegation controls the government, Amity grows the food for the factions and controls farming, and Dauntless is in control of protecting everyone in the city and guarding the gates. All together working as a whole creates the illusion of a perfect society. Until human nature kicks in and the bad contaminates the society. A revolt is in the control of a single faction. Without all the pieces working, ...
Everyone in the factions has a place, everyone has one genetic trait, all except the divergent. In the book Divergent there are five factions, each faction was made up by one personality trait. The traits were Abnegation (selfless), Amity (peace), Candor (honesty), Dauntless (brave), and Erudite (intelligent). After taking a serum that stimulates the brain to produce simulations in which the different simulation eliminated one faction. The main character Tris ( originally named Beatrice Prior) did not eliminate four factions but had an inconclusive result, as she only eliminated two factions out of the five possible factions. It is later revealed that the factions were created within a fenced city to protect it from the outside. The outside is full of constant violent war; this is caused by damaged genetics that causes th...
A book that provides entertainment as well as life lessons is hard to come by in this day in age. The kind of books that should be on the summer reading list must have a large population appeal and deep character development that makes you feel like you are in the story. Veronica Roth’s book Divergent, which provides you with all the factors that make up good literature, should stay on the summer reading list. This book offers all these and more throughout its twists and turns. Divergent should stay on the summer reading list because of the life lessons taught in the story, the large population appeal and deep character development.
The most remarkable thing about literature is its effect on society and the individual. Every once in a while a book is published that truly relates to those who read it. Divergent just so happens to be one of those books. Divergent is an extreme take on the differences of what virtues humans value to form the perfect society. The book’s contents are almost philosophical, acting as sustenance for the heart and soul, meanwhile highlighting the many problems we face in modern society through quotes in a subliminal fashion that coincide wonderfully with the story. One such quote can be found on pg.441 and it reads ‘’ Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.’’ It almost breaks the 3rd wall. Human beings were born with both flaws and goodness. We are a double edged sword with extreme potential on both points. Deep down there is something dark in everybody. There are those who can control it and those who are weak and succumb to it.
In Divergent by Veronica Roth many characters struggle to know who they really are and when they learn the answer it is often at a personal price. Beatrice Prior who later changes her name to Tris is the protagonist of the story and struggles the most to find out who she really is. She is a strong, caring and brave young woman who is forced to choose to either continue living with her family in a faction guided by selflessness or move to a new faction guided by bravery. She is almost unable to make her choice due to the fact that she got multiple results from her aptitude test, commonly referred to as divergent. Throughout the book she faces many challenges and adversities but each one helps her learn a little more about herself. By the end of the book Tris learns who she is and what she believes in but each time she learned more about herself she paid a great price.
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The book begins in a society that has resorted to factions to keep peace, and each faction is known for a single trait that the members of that faction practice to achieve mastery in. There were five factions: Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless, and Erudite. Ever since the factions were created, or as far as anyone can remember, the have maintained a society without war even though some factions don’t exactly enjoy the other’s company sometimes. According to the way Tris acted, the factions seemed stable and normal to her, and she didn’t have a thought in her mind that they could ever mutate into a warzone. By the descriptions in the book, Tris ...
Beatrice and Hero are both wonderful and intriguing characters. They develop in interesting ways and they represent two extremely different views of society and what it was like to be a woman in those patriarchal times.
Making big decisions can be hard. Having to make a thought decision put’s all kinds of stress and pressure feelings on you. You’re going to find out how you should approach making a big decision and who do you go to for help. After this, you’ll have the tools to make any stressful decision.
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