Divergent mostly takes place in three out of five parts they live in, these parts they live in are called factions. They three factions are: Abnegation, Dauntless, and Erudite. The other two aren’t mentioned as much but they are called Amity and Candor. These factions all stand for the personalities the of people, after finishing school students have to pick a faction to go to, most just stay in their original faction. The protagonist is a young girl that just finished school, her name is Beatrice. She is originally from the faction Abnegation which is the faction for being selfless. Before any of the students pick a faction they have to take a test - that is taken by being injected by a syringe with a high tech test in it - to give an idea …show more content…
At first she thought that her enemies were the hotshot new members that switched to Dauntless, because they would always gloat and make fun of her and her friends. She made it her duty to beat them at competitions and when she did they would get super jealous and hate her even more. She especially hated this guy named Peter who beat her up pretty bad in a competition once. Tris almost got killed by Peter and his friends once. Later on in the story though she notices what the Erudite (faction for intelligence) and Dauntless faction leaders are planning. They are the real antagonists technically, they end up starting an uncontrollable …show more content…
He helps Tris not get noticed by the abnegation leaders so she wouldn’t get caught. Tris later finds out why he’s nicknamed Four and she also finds out that he is Divergent. They end up falling in love together. Caleb - Tris’s brother who switched from Abnegation to Erudite. Switching factions isn’t actually common at all and is considered shameful, so having both of your children switch was very disappointing to Caleb's’ and Tris’s father. Their mother was very supportive though. Since Caleb switched to Erudite he ended up helping Tris a lot because the Erudite leader was the antagonist. Jeanine - Erudite leader, the antagonist. She tries using the Dauntless as her soldiers by manipulating them with a high tech code in a syringe. She’s using the Dauntless as soldiers to go into war with the other factions (I’m not so sure if that’s correct).
Eric - Dauntless leader that is teamed with Jeanine. He is very tough on the Dauntless and he scares them
I predict that Tris will discover that Four is also a Divergent, and they will start a rebellion together at the end of this book and beginning of the next one. I think that Four is a Divergent because of how he knew quite quickly that Tris was a Divergent. He didn’t have to scrutinize her he discovered it with ease. If he is not Divergent, then he must have known someone who was. “ ‘What?’ I demand. ‘You’re Divergent,’ he replies. I stare at him, fear pulsing through me like
Caleb, the father, constantly manipulates to his own advantage. One may think Caleb was a superficial character who speaks softly in a cruel manner. Throughout the book if he feels one of his children have disrespected him he will quietly tell his wife. This sets up manipulation as the children have learnt early on if the do not behave their mother will fall more of a victim to their father. Any decision that is made comes from him. He keeps his children close to the homestead in fear of them running off and he needs them to keep the farm running. His thought would be he would rather have free labour from his children then have to pay for farm hands. He
Tris changes from being unsure and weak to a strong, brave, and determined in the book, Divergent. In the beginning of the story, Tris thinks she is not selfless enough to be in Abnegation. She is even more confused as her aptitude test determines she is divergent, a person who has more than one personality type who is suited for more than one faction. As she transfers to Dauntless, Tris realizes that she is at a disadvantage in Stage One, which involved physical activity. She is short and scrawny, and she doesn’t excel in an of the exercises alongside losing the fights. This threatens her chance of passing initiation. As a result of this sudden change, Tris misses her caring family. However, Tris doesn’t mourn and drown in self-pity. Instead,
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
First of all, in order to have an interesting story you will have to have a tone of voice that contributes equally to the meaning of the story. According to Divergent, “I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.” This quotes supports the idea that Tris can in fact fit into all factions and therefore is divergent. Tris, faces with this conflict of being divergent since it is looked down upon. But, even though she faces this serious situation, she has a strong and powerful mindset throughout the journey.
In the beginning of the book Tris has to make a very tough choice of which faction to go to. She has a very hard choice because her aptitude test results did not tell her just one faction she is most like. This choice can affect her life. Veronica writes “ I stare into my own eyes for a moment. Today is the day of the aptitude test that will show me which of the five factions I belong in. And tomorrow, at the Choosing
Although Tris is raised in her parents’ faction, at the age of only sixteen she like every other
As the story progresses clues to why people hate her so much are revealed. There is mentioning of a party that Melinda, some how, ruined. People say that they or someone they knew got in trouble at the party. Melinda wants to forget that party. She blocks it out of her head. At every mention of that night Melinda cringes.
The only thing Caleb can do in his social situation is to have some peace of mind knowing that he has freedom of thought. Caleb does have strong feelings about the country`s hierarchy, about laws, prison, court, and other social institutions. He says, "strange that men from age to age should consent to hold their lives at the breath of another, merely that each in his turn may have a power of acting the tyrant according to the law. Oh God! give me poverty! shower upon me all the imaginary hardships of human life! I will receive them all with thankfulness. Turn me a prey to the wild beasts of the desert, so I be never again the victim of man, dressed in the gore dripping-robes of authority! Suffer me at least to call life and pursuits of life my own! Let me hold it to the mercy of the elements, of the hunger of beasts, or the revenge of barbarians, but not of the cold-blooded prudence of monopolists and kings!" (Volume 3, Chapter I). Caleb knows that he disagrees with things as they are, but he does not know exactly what he can do about it. He also gets a little joy knowing that he is considered to be an outlaw of sorts and revered by others in his social situation.
In the book divergent there are five factions known as Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Erudite, and Dauntless. Each faction has their unique trait. There is a test made to show you what faction you are meant for but when Beatrice took the test, her results came back showing she was equally meant for Abnegation, Dauntless, and Erudite. She is what the society call Divergent. Divergent think in a way that the average other people can’t Jeanine Matthews wants to eliminate all Divergent because she thinks it is a threat to society and equality. Beatrice will have to make allies to help foil Jeanine’s plans.
Like in many dystopian novels, Divergent has divided different types of people into created class structures to try and perfect humanity and prevent war. These structures are called factions, and people born or switched into them are forced to live their lives and think as the faction demands it. These factions are separated by their character between selflessness, peacefulness, honesty, intelligence, and bravery. Human beings cannot be limited to a single characteristic and one way of thinking. The leaders make it out so the people feel as if they have a choice in what they do with their lives, but the truth is that they are only given the choice to choose between a few pre-determined lifestyles. If they fail initiation going into a new faction, they are forced to live outside of the society; factionless. This system is not a beneficial way to structure a society. The point of these factions is to lead to a better society and a better world, but war and rebellion are inevitable. Having people forced to live in different factions based on how they act and think, and limiting them only to that nature is not better, but ludicrous.
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.
Caleb and Catherine are having several conflicts with a degenerative spiral. Folger, Poole, and Randall (2012), shows that this is a nonrealistic conflict which had expressions of aggression to hurt the other person involved. The couple has their own interest in mind and keeps moving away from one another. This shows the degenerative cycle and sees that the relationship is disintegrating because distrust feeds distrust causing the marriage to lead to me terminated. Caleb father steps in and gives him a challenge of forty days and see if anything changes. During the challenge, Caleb gets frustrated asking his father “How can I keep loving and she keeps rejecting” (Kendrick, 2006)? Caleb father answered him with a biblical view and said that what Jesus does every day for us (Kendrick, 2008). His father explains that love is not about feelings it is about sacrifice and to give at all times even when it is hard. 1 Corinthians 13:7 King James Version ‘beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things” (KJV). By Caleb taking on the challenge, he starts to alter the degenerative
Set in a futuristic dystopia Chicago there is a society that is divided into five factions: Abnegation; selflessness, Amity; peaceful, Candor; honest, Dauntless; brave, and Erudite; knowledgeable. Each represents a different virtue of living one’s life. The children of this society have to decide whether they want to stay in their faction or switch to another, the choice is theirs. The young Beatrice “Tris” Prior makes a choice that surprises everyone including herself. After what seems to be the wrong choice, Tris and her fellow faction members have to go through a very competitive training in order to live with their new faction. They must go through intense psychological tests and extreme physical training that can either transform them or destroy them. If they fail to complete their training successfully they will be left frictionless and an outcast to society. While the Dauntless train, the Erudite devolve a life threatening plan that is carried out that night. They developed a serum that stops the brain’s thought process and all of the Dauntless become sleeper soldiers for they were injected with it. The serum does not work on Tris or Tobias “Four” Eaton because they are both Divergent. When they try to escape they are both caught and brought to Jeanine, the Erudite leader. She then sentences Tris to death and Tobias is sent to the control room to view the attack. Tris is locked inside a glass tank that fills with water, but moments later her mother saves her life. ...
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