Critical thinking is imperative to the development of ideas that portray in everything that is seen in daily life. Critical thinking is part of daily life that many people fail to recognize or maybe distracted to commit to logical reasoning. In the movie, Divergent directed by Neil Burger there are many pitfalls within the story and the characters. The pitfalls shown by the protagonist in the movie, Tris are using bias against change, appeal to tradition and stereotypes. Tris is an example of following appeal to tradition by believing in a single entity government and different factions. In the movie, appeal to tradition appears as how the factions are run and the personnel that governs the different factions and society. Tris was brought …show more content…
Tris is always questioning what goes around her. On Tris’s first test, she had to take a test as an initiate to get an idea as to what faction was best suited for her. Tris questioned herself of what was it that she wanted from herself in life and what society demanded from her. Her none conformist attitude and her bias against change eventually led her to discover not only herself, but what her meaning life was. As mentioned before, her journey began when she took the first test to find out which of the factions she would fit into accordingly with her test results. Her test results were inconclusive which meant that she was different from the rest of the initiates that took the test at the same time. As a result, when it came time to choose a faction, Tris decided to choose the faction that was the least similar to her own. Even though she was still uncertain about her purpose, Tris decided to make a daunting change in her life when she picked Dauntless as her new faction. Furthermore, during the Dauntless initiation process, Tris does not mind change at all, she arrived into Dauntless as a weak initiate being in last place during the early stages of the initiation process. As the initiation progressed, Tris was extremely focused on becoming the top initiate that she and one of the Dauntless leaders, Tobias fall in love with each other. …show more content…
The society in Divergent is shown as a society that has overcome many aspects in which plague today’s society. Unfortunately, the movie shows that is true that the factions have stereotypes for each faction. First, initiates can decide what faction they will join. Afterwards they will be put to the test during their training with their faction. If they fail, they will be segregated with the factionless. The factionless is a community of people who did not pass the test and must be marginalized from society. As a result, the other factions believe that only the weak become factionless. This is not entirely true that the factionless people who fail the initiation process, some of them could not decide which faction to choose from so they became factionless. In addition, there are many times in the movie where members of different factions call out the other factions by using stereotypes as an insult. For example, during the initiation trial at Dauntless, Tris is constantly harassed by her peers who came from other factions by calling her “stiff”, which is what other factions refer the Abnegation faction. This suggests that the different factions have different stereotypes for other factions. Moreover, Abnegation are not the only faction which suffers from stereotypes. Each faction holds a stereotypical point of view of other factions. For instance, in one scene of the
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
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,
It is you’re "in group. " You identify most with your family and other people are not as important to you. When you do this, you form the idea that you are different from everyone else. In this book, the leaders want everyone to be the same so that they will not try to rebel against the society. The leaders want everyone to think the same so that there will be complete social
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
In Divergent, Tris is the poster child for going against conformity. She chooses her own path in life, goes against “the test”, and she challenges any standards that society places out for her. Tris leaves her faction, abnegation, because “[she isn’t] selfless enough, no matter how hard [she tries] to be." (pg 336) She isn’t what her faction obliges her to be, and unlike many others she did not try to become something she was not. She moves onto something that suits herself better. “Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way.” (pg 442) but the Divergents’ “minds move in a dozen different directions. [They] can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies [their] leader...
Tris finds out about how Four only has four fears and that his aptitude test was for abnegation, but he chose dauntless as his faction. “He says, ‘I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren’t all that different. All your life you’ve been training to forget yourself, so when you’re in danger, it becomes your first instinct. I could belong in Abnegation just as easily” (Roth, pg.336). It illustrates that even though Tris is struggling with the identity of having or not having divergent in her life, it looks like Four is struggling with the exact same thing. The universal theme of when people are trying to find themselves, the best way to know who you are is to first know who you care about. This applies to everyone because many people are confused on where they belong or who they are, so they just need a little reminder. This situation relates to the universal theme because Tris and Four don’t know where they belong in and who they are as a person. The words “selflessness,” “bravery,” and “danger” has a positive connotation and implies that the author is trying to say that to find where you belong to is a hard thing to do and it might be difficult along the way, but at the end it's worth it because you find who you are.. When Tris was still figuring out who she is, with the help of Four she figured out that having many factions is ok and being divergent is unique. The universal theme clearly shows that when you are struggling to find yourself or where you belong in, it’s best to welcome people to help you figure it
Although Tris is raised in her parents’ faction, at the age of only sixteen she like every other
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.
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.
In order to make their choice easier, they all take an aptitude test. Each test is supposed to result with one faction that the person would be suited to, but Tris comes out with three.
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. ...
What is not easily recognized is the fact that the very fabric of life is dependent on the ability to think properly and make good decisions. Improper thinking is costly in the quality of life and monetarily. The result of a critical thinker that has worked to cultivate proper thinking skills includes: the ability to ask vital questions and to identify problems with clarity. A critical thinker also collects relevant information while effectively interpreting it, thinks with an open mind, uses alternative systems of thought, and understands how to communicate while working to formulate a strong solution. In summary, critical thinking is self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking. Above all else, the standards of excellence are rigorous, and it entails the prospect of overcoming the challenge of sociocentrism and
First, Identity had a lot to do with the movie. Tris and Four both had trouble finding out their identities and who they were. Both of them were trying to figure out where they fit in and where they belong, which is hard to do. It took her a long time to figure out where she fit in. She was in between divergent and dauntless, but in the end she was found as divergent when she was dauntless most of the movie. Four is basically trying to figure out the same thing she is. And by the end of the movie, she doesn't know who she is. But four said he knows who she is.
As the world of 5 factions that seemed to be “helping” everybody made a choice of what they wanted to be in the future. They designed it to be a good system with Abnegation being mostly in charge of the decisions they make as they were sought to be selfless to be one. With later Erudite wanting to take charge they tricked all the Dauntless members (not including the leaders) and arranging them to kill the Abnegation. Which leads into a big chaos resulting the work of Divergent been there to stop them. “Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”