In a futuristic Chicago, where the city divided society into 5 different factions. Amity, Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, and Dauntless. Whenever a child turns 16, they have to decide whether they want to stay in their faction with their family, or abandon them and live the rest of their lives in a different faction of their choosing. For Beatrice Prior, the decision to pick a faction nags at her, especially because she is a divergent, meaning she belongs to more than one faction, which society marks as dangerous. Beatrice, or Tris, finally makes a decision that shocks everyone, including herself. “In the last circle are five metal bowls so large they could hold my entire body, if I curled up. Each one contains a substance that represents each …show more content…
Abnegation, her current faction and where her parents are would be the easier option but she never was selfless enough and never felt right there. Which leaves her with Dauntless, the only faction where she didn’t explain why she can’t fit there, maybe because she knows she will. “I think of the motto I read in my Faction History textbook: Faction before blood. More than family, our factions are where we belong. Can that possibly be right?” (pg 43) The ‘Faction before blood’ motto that controls everyone and their decisions in life, may be the most important motto to the people. It is more of a rule, if there is a sixteen year old that transfers factions, which happens less often as staying in your own faction, that kid is no longer part of that family, his new family is his new faction. Beatris isn’t sure about that, do you belong to a faction or your family? “His blood falls onto glass, and he is the first of us to switch factions. The first faction transfer. A mutter rises from the Dauntless section, and I stare at the floor. They will see him as a traitor from now on. His Dauntless family will have the option of visiting him in his new faction, on Visiting Day, but they won’t, because he left
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,
Blood cannot be staged even when family values are. In Reality-TV family values, you can be the worst parent in the world but as long as you put family above all else. You can make yourself a martyr for your families happiness. Showing the world they too can have true happiness beyond all the money and recognition just by loving their family. The most important thing in life is family as long as it is like mine. The family unit and values must be put above everything else in life.
Loyalty allows people to make sacrifices in order to protect the ones that are deat to them. In the book The Chrysalids written by John Wyndham, there are individuals willing to die for one another just to keep each other safe from the society trying to hunt them down.
Veronica Roth's dystopian book, “Divergent” takes place in Chicago. In Divergent there are 5 factions. Each human has to go through an aptitude test to see which faction they are most like. The main character Tris has many difficult choices to make in this book. One lesson the author teaches is choices can change your whole life.
“You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.”- Ponyboy (chapter 2 page 26) The quote previously mentioned is from a novel called The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, which tells the story of conflict between the "greasers" and the "Socs." The Outsiders describes a young 14-year-old boy, Ponyboy Curtis, who grows up in the poor side of town with his two older brothers Darry and Sodapop Curtis. Ponyboy is a part hood group called “greasers” and for as long as he can remember the greasers have been at odds with the Socs, a group of kids from wealthy families. When greasers Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny
Have you ever pictured yourself being divergent? Do you even know what being Divergent is? Picture it like it's a good thing, but there are people trying to kill you just because you are unique and normal. In a Veronica Roth novel Divergent, Beatrice (Tris) battles an internal conflict of trying to find who she really is. Tris ultimately resolves this conflict by facing her fears in the fear landscape; however, this choice also illustrates her true character as both fearful and fearless. Tris’s decision to fight the war also reveals the universal theme that when people are trying to find themselves, the best way to know who you are is to first know who you love or who you care about.
Can one Choice define you? In Veronica Roth’s dystopian novel, Divergent, that is just one of the questions that will have you searching for answers. Roth will have you questioning your personal social role on society after you read her novel. The novel follows the point of view of the protagonist, tris Prior, who must decide on faction to join and pledge allegiance too for the rest of her life. There are five factions total. Read how the choice of allegiance, living with the choice, and the outcome of the choice all show key elements in social critic as Veronica Roth brings to life her dystopian novel The Divergent.
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 ...
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.
within a family tear it apart. Every member of the family is to a degree
“Blood is thicker than water.” Loyalty is helping someone you care about. Justice is obeying the law and not helping someone. The Outsiders, Mama Went To Jail For The Vote, and When Family Loyalty Becomes Crime all show the theme loyalty vs. justice. Loyalty is more important than justice because helping family and friends are important, going above and beyond can help save someone, and obeying the law could get someone you’re close to in trouble.
In The Outsiders I think the most talked about theme is family doesn’t always mean that you share common blood. This means that you do not have to be related to someone to be loyal and protective to them. In the whole gang the only ones related are Darry, Sodapop, and Ponyboy. There is also Two-Bit, Steve, Johnny, and Dallas who weren’t related to anyone in the gang by blood, but by loyalty. Even though they didn’t share blood they still stood up for each other, protected each other, and treated everyone in the gang like they did share
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. ...
towards the idea that this newfound loyalty is part of a plot to cause harm.
The author of one of my favorite book series Divergent, uses multiple different elements to intrigue the readers and develop her stories. Divergent is about a girl named Beatrice Prior who lives in a futuristic Chicago where the entire city is divided into five factions. Abnegation are the selfless, Erudite are the ones who follow knowledge, Amity are all about peace and kindness, Candor follow the truth, and Dauntless are the soldiers/cops. Beatrice was born and raised in abnegation but has never fit in like her brother Caleb. When your sixteen, you take a sort of test to see where you belong, but when Beatrice takes the test it’s revealed she’s divergent.