Divergent

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Everyone knows about the geeks, the freaks, the jocks, the preps, and every other Hollywood idolized clique. Each person in the group donates their own similar attributes, which in turn come together to make the group what it is. In “Divergent”, different classes of people are split into ‘factions’, or, in other words, extreme cliques. These like-minded people have their opinions on how the world was corrupted. The group names and their faction missions are as follows: the Erudite (intelligence), the Dauntless (bravery), the Abnegation (selflessness), Amity (peacekeepers), and the Candor (the honest), all of which uphold their beliefs by exerting the upmost radicality of their manifestos. Each faction then contributes their own ideological products to help all of society. These groupings work “toward a better society and a better world” (pg.44), however, in the end, they are brutally, and massively abraised with the strong will of one lunatic faction member. Others may say that splitting us into groups of peers that we agree with is a good idea, yet it will not take long until the enemy lies and infiltrates our systems, becoming too powerful for our faction to overcome. This is why we all have to mingle, using our talents together for the betterment of society.
Recent studies show that high school students no longer only talk to, and/or become friends with the stereotypical cheerleader, jock, or band geek that they are, but rather look much farther than that. Maybe a quarterback does not understand his algebra class, and his nerd of a classmate wants to learn how to throw a perfect spiral for physics. Tradeoff. The quarterback asks the nerd to help him, and visa-versa. Wait a minute. They actually had fun together, and are now fr...

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...on of a myriad of nutrients, each bearing its own properties for society to flourish. There is no need to split it up into specialties, but rather keep all humans together to do what they do best: teach, entertain, govern, love, etc… A well-known rule of life is that “we have to stick together to survive”. Although Tris said, “It is heavy with our worst fear, greater even than the fear of death: to be factionless (pg. 44),” factionlessness is nothing to dread. It is something to celebrate. It is not to belong nowhere, but rather everywhere. Whether someone chooses to become secluded and fall, or surrounded and successful is their choice alone, however, a word of warning. If they do choose seclusion, know that without the catalyst of another’s work, they too, like the plant, will surely die. It is just one more lost cause. One more lost effect. One more ‘faction.’

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