As I began to read Divergent, I noticed that the society that the main character, Beatrice lives in is a book with a society with a government that predetermines many decisions in people's lives. In the fictional Chicago where Beatrice lives, the city is divided into five factions: Dauntless, Abnegation, Erudite, Amity, and Candor. Dauntless represents bravery, Abnegation represents selflessness, Erudite represents intelligence, Amnity represents kindness, and Candor represents honesty. Every child that is born into a faction has the choice to either stay in their current faction they live in, or to change to another faction when they become of age. Whatever virtue they have the most strength in, they are urged to join that faction.
When each child becomes of age, they take a test. The test is an assessment of themselves in an effort to better help the child understand which faction that they belong in. When Beatrice took her test, she had very contridicting results and they were inconclusive. The administrator told her that she was what they called, divergent. She wasn't sure which faction she belonged in, and she had strengths and in Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. She was equally qualified to be in all 3 factions, and this is what made her divergent. Those who are found to be divergent are killed because being different is not okay in their society. If you do not belong to one, and only one faction, then you don't belong in their society. I think that this is very harsh just for being different, but that is the society that she lives in.
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