Personal Narrative: My Story Of Abnegation

Exposition:

Beatrice Prior stares into the mirror while her mom trims her hair. Looking in a mirror was a rare thing for Abnegation. She is very nervous because her aptitude test coming up very soon. Beatrice and her brother Caleb ride the bus to school. Beatrice as walks through the hallways getting shoved and pushed by the people around her, she thinks about the dauntless.

Rising Action

1. Beatrice Prior and her brother Caleb (both 16) now must take their aptitude tests to see which faction they are best suited for. Beatrice is very nervous because she thinks she's not selfless enough to remain Abnegation but yet wants to make her parents proud. She gets called right after her brother Caleb. A dauntless woman named Tori helps attach

the wires and inject the serum into her neck. As Beatrice is taking the aptitude test, there are complications and her results only rules out two of the five factions. The five factions are Abnegation, Candor, Amity, Dauntless, and Erudite. Tori warns Beatrice never to tell about her results.

2. Beatrice goes home early to think about the choosing ceremony the next day. Beatrice decides to go a different way than the bus because she doesn't want her parents to know there was a complication which they would suspect if she arrived home early. On the way there, she meets a factionless person. Caleb and Beatrice fixed supper before their parents come home they eat in silence and then go up to the room to think about what has happened before the choosing ceremony the next day.

3. Beatrice and her family arrive at the choosing ceremony and she and her brother go stand in the abnegation section. At first, there is a long speech by Marcus Eaton. Then he starts calling up the names of all the 16-year-olds to come forward to choose their fate. Name after name, they come up with their hand, cut it and put it over the bowl that represents faction they choose to live in. When it is his turn, Caleb cuts his hand and hold it over the Erudite bowl. Beatrice Prior is called up. She goes, slices her hand and choosing to be brave she, she chooses Dauntless.

4. Beatrice and the other Dauntless initiates hop on a train and ride for about an hour. Beatrice realizes that they are slowing down and they will have to jump off the train onto a building. Beatrice and a girl she met on the bus, Christina, jump holding hands and stumbled onto the roof. The next challenge is to jump off a building into a hole in the ground below. Beatrice steps up and jump off the roof, falling down into a pit. At the bottom, there is a net. a guy named Four helped her out of the net. She changes her name to Tris.

5. Tris meets Christina, Will, Peter, Molly, Drew, and the leader, Eric.They are given a short tour around the Dauntless compound. Then they enter into the sleeping rooms to start getting their beds ready and unpacking. They will all sleep in the one big room together. Over the course of the next few days, they are introduced to weapons like knives and guns. They learn to use the weapons, and how to fight. All the new initiates are put on a ranking board. The top 12 will be picked to become Dauntless, and the ones that are not picked will become factionless. One day, Eric decides to match Peter and Tris up together not knowing of the huge rift between them. Peter is the meanest and toughest guy from dauntless. She has to fight him, and of course, she lost very badly.

6. In the middle of the night, the lights turn on and Eric orders everyone up. Tris and the other initiates hop onto a train and they split into teams between Four and Eric. Four explains that they will be playing Capture the flag. They find an old amusement park. They decided to hide their flag on the Merry-Go-Round. Tris and Four climb the Ferris wheel and this is where Tris discovers that Four is scared of heights. Yet, he is brave enough to go up with her. Tris tries to climb up higher but she is too short to reach the next one up. Then suddenly, the one underneath her broke leaving her to hold onto the bar by her fingertips. Four climbs down, taking the risk of moving the Ferris wheel so Tris does not fall and die. Tris safely lands on the ground and tells Four that she knows where the other team flag is so they go to tell the others together. The others criticize them for moving the wheel and saying that now the other team knows where we are. Since Tris found where the flag is, they break off into groups of three to attack the building. Christina ends up getting the flag and winning the game for her team.

7. The first stage of initiation is done and they get their results. Edward is ranked 1st and Peter is 2nd. That night after everyone goes to bed.Tris all the sudden wakes up and a cold scream Echoes through the room. Light flicker on and Edward has a butter knife in his eye. Tris extract the butter knife from Edward's eye and alerts Four that something has happened. Tris cleans up the blood on the floor and then goes washes her hands. Four alerts one of the Dauntless leaders that there has been trouble in the dormitory and somebody's eye has been stabbed out. Eric does not care that one of initiate has been hurt. Edward and his girlfriend, Myra end up quitting and joined the factionless.

8.

Visiting day arrives and all the families of the initiates both dauntless-born and other factions come and see how their children are going through initiation. Tris finds her mom and goes up and hugs her asking her how she's been but her mom said this is my gift to you I'm going to allow you to talk about yourself today. Four walk over and tell her mom about how well she's doing in initiation. Tris and her mom walk off into a hallway and talk about how she's doing and if she's near the bottom or at the top. Tris also asked why being a Divergent so bad. Divergent is someone who thinks differently and acts differently than everyone else in this society. Her mom warns her never to talk about it to anyone no matter who it is. Her mom asked her to have some dauntless cake for her and her mom walked out of the door. Tris wondered how her mom knew what the cake taste like and how she wasn't so confused and that she knew where the hallways were and she didn't get mixed up. Tris figure it out her mom was

Dauntless

9. Tri's mom asks her to find out what the serum is and what does it do. Tris goes and tries to find her brother in the erudite compound and orders the person at the desk to tell her where her brother is. Her brother appears behind her and they go walk and talk together outside. Caleb leaves and suddenly Tris is surrounded by erudite soldiers. She is brought to Jeanine's office the leader of the erudite. Jeanine questions her about if she is a divergent or just a simple 16-year-old girl trying to fit in. Tris managed to evade all these questions and Janine let her go and they drive her back to the Dauntless compound where Eric is waiting to meet her. he starts to chew her out and then Four appears and protects her by saying that she tried to kiss him and the reason she left because she was scared and didn't know what to do.

10. Four invites Tris to see his fear landscape and they go through his fears together. She ends up finding out who his dad is who he really is and what type of person he wishes to be. Tobias Eaton the person she never knew much about the person he was never there at the abnegation meeting where their fathers met and discussed politics. In the final ranking, Tris comes out on top, in the corner of her eyes she sees Peter talking with Molly and Drew she knows something will happen but she does not like but they're not attacking right away which means they're storing up their anger and planning for something worse.

11. The last day of initiation they are all injected with the orange serum and Tris very wary not knowing what it is and thinks it might be something to do with Janine’s master plan .That night in the Dauntless compound she wonders what the rest of her life will be like will she be satisfied and working in The Dauntless compound. She will have to choose a job tomorrow and she has no idea what she will do.

Climax

Trish wakes up to everyone getting up in the middle of the night, all of them pulling on their shoes and walking right out the door Trish tries to walk the way they're doing and put on her gun and making every act of the person in front of her. They walked out of the dauntless compound in a straight line going through the city and they end up in the abnegation section. All of The Dauntless leaders are standing there watching them as they go by. 4 end up to be right behind her she noticed that he does not have the zombie eyes or the way he walks does not give it him that he's in the simulation. Eric walks up to him with a gun in his hand asking would it be okay if I shot him. Eric walks up and puts the gun to his head Trish pulled out her gun and aimed it at Eric's head. Eric pulls a gun from forehead and Four pulls out his gun at Eric's head. Tris pulls the trigger and it hits its foot he screams in rage and drops his gun. Tris and four run off but end up getting caught by the erudite and brought to Jeanine's office.

Falling action
1. Four is injected with a serum that affects him and even though he is Divergent. The serum makes him think that his friends are his enemies.He is led out of the room and Tris is put in a cell with glass walls and water starts gushing in from all sides. The water goes on top of her head she feels dizzy out of breath right before she passes out a gunshot Echoes through the room the glass crack end above her mother's face appears. Her mother and her escape out of the building but when they were close to where they could be safe too many people arrived and tried to kill them. Tris's mom sacrifices herself so that Trish could get to safety.

2. She's found her dad and her brother hiding in an abandoned warehouse in the abnegation sector. Tris and a few of the people she needs there including her brother and her dad to run off to The Dauntless compound to go save the abnegation people and everyone else not affected by the serum. They need to shut down the simulation but they have no idea where it might be operating. Tris remembers something Jeanine said about putting Four back where he's used to. They run off to The Dauntless compound where the control room is. Tris has to fight Four but she does not want to kill him. She ends up dropping her gun and waiting for Four to kill her. She says his name over and over all the sudden he says Tris and she knows he has broken out of the simulation.

Resolution

Tris and Four leave the dauntless compound and walk along the train track trying to get away from the all the frightful things they had seen that day.Abnegation and dauntless are both broken and the other factions are torn or frighted that erudite will kill them too.Tris ,Four, And their family members walk off into the night

Setting

In the book Divergent by Veronica Roth, the setting takes place in the future because they are using technology that we don't have yet. The city of futuristic, but run down Chicago with tall buildings and a wall around the entire city. Tri's house in the abnegation sector is very plain it is shaped like a box and the color is gray. The inside is white and gray and the only stuff they have is stuff that they need. The main place where Tris and her friend's hangout are the dauntless compounds. The main part is the pit and it is described as” Uneven rock walls rise several stories above my head.Built into the stone walls are places for food, clothing,supplies,Leisure activities ,narrow paths, and steps carved from rock to connect them ( Roth 73).The Erudite compound is located less than 2 miles away from where the played capture the flag that one night.the main building is a library as described in the book as a building” with tall the room is huge, silent, and smells like dust-covered pages. The wood panel for increased beneath my feet. Bookcases line the walls on either side of me, but they seem to be for decoration more than anything because computers occupy the table is in the center of the room and no one is reading”(Roth 377 )

Antagonist

The main antagonist in the book Divergent is Jeanine. She is the leader of the Erudite and a very powerful voice. she is described in the book as” a very attractive woman with watery gray eyes and spectacles” (Roth 28).Jeanine wants to control everyone and everything and she produces a serum that would control everyone but a Divergent. Jeanine is” the one that released a report about my father”(Roth 378).Jeanine is against the abnegation leaders but most of all so hate anyone who has power and she does not. She tries to kill anyone in her way and almost succeeded but in end, she tries to get her way but of course, Tris and Four end up beating her and saving the day.Jeanine may be smart but she can't always get her way.

Protagonist

The main protagonist in the book Divergent is Beatrice.

Beatrice is a selfless girl who tries to make her parents proud and is always struggling on how she's acting. Beatrice and her family live in the abnegation sector. education is one of the five factions that make up the society that she lives in. she is very brave but most people don't take her seriously because she is so small and meek. in the book she is described as” I see a narrow face, wide round eyes and a long thin nose- I still look like the little girl,So sometime in the last few months I turn 16 “(Roth 7-8)Later in the book she joins don't listen changes her name to Tris.in the book “ A new place, a new name. I can be remade here. ‘Tris,’ I say firmly”(Roth 60).no matter how small Tris is, she will still do her best even if everyone says it is

impossible

Character Description

Christina transferred from Candor and is a tall dark skin girl with short hair and she interests become best friends

Eric is one of The Dauntless leaders and is very rude to Trish and her friend. Eric has long dark hair and many piercings on his face. him and for our enemies and always are trying to get on each other's nerves

Four is Trish instructor and is described in the book as” he has a spare upper lip and a full upper lip. his eyes are so deep set that his eyelashes touched the skin under his eyebrows and they are dark blue a dreaming, sleeping, waiting, color”( Roth 69).

Will is one of Tris’s friends and is also dating Christina he also protects Tris

Peter is the enemy during and after initiation he beats her up and even tried to kill her

Caleb is her brother and changes fractions at choosing ceremony. Caleb chooses Erudite which is the enemy of abnegation

Trish's parents was a big impact on her when she was living in abnegation. her dad is a leader of the city and her mom is a lawyer and also helps out with the faction led by bringing them food blankets and smiles.

Theme

The theme for the book Divergent is choices. The entire book Tris and her friend were all making choices that affected their lives.