What is Divergent?

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Arabella Chiang
Asuncion
English 9H
16 February 2016
What is Divergent?
            Divergent is the tendency to be different. In the book Divergent, Veronica Roth portrays the main character or protagonist Beatrice to be a Divergent. In this utopian-like society it was split into five factions: Dauntless, Abnegation, Candor, Amity, and Erudite. In each fraction they value a certain virtue. In Dauntless they would value bravery. In Abnegation they would value selflessness. In Candor they would value honesty. In Amity they would value peacefulness. In Erudite they would value knowledge (Roth 52). Beatrice grew up in the faction Abnegation, and she always thought she didn’t fit in. At the age 16 they were allowed to choose which faction they wanted to be in for the rest of their lives. They would take aptitude tests to see which faction was more suitable for them. Beatrice ended up with three results: Dauntless, Abnegation, and Erudite. She was different than the others. She was Divergent (Roth 26).
Being a Divergent in a utopian-like society was very dangerous. Beatrice had a choice she had to make. She had to choose carefully which faction she wanted to go to. She left her family and joined the Dauntless. Beatrice changed her name to Tris, representing that she wanted to start a new life. The initiation was brutal. She was small and shy. No one thought she could make it, but she pulled through. She tried her hardest every day. Her being a Divergent helped her come out on top. During everything Tris was going through the society was falling apart. Erudite injected a serum into dauntless fighters that controlled them to kill the Abnegation. This was the beginning of a dangerous war.
 I think that Victoria Roth wanted her readers to be able to relate to her book. Throughout the book Victoria hints various messages that she wants to convey to her readers. Beatrice was not sure where she fit in. Beatrice was divergent, and she could not tell anyone about it. If she told someone about her being divergent, then she would be risking her life. Today many teenagers are not sure where they fit in, and they are having a rough time fitting in with the world just like Tris. Victoria shows throughout the book that being divergent can be difficult, but in the end it is a great gift to have. For example, when Tris goes through the fear simulations, and she only had a few fears. This was dangerous for her because the way she overcame her fears were with methods that are categorized from different factions. This made it hard for her, but this was something that she could use to her advantage. She could come up with different ways to get out of sticky situations, which made her better than others and more of a threat to this “perfect” society.  
This is like normal people being different in their own ways. Sometimes being different can be difficult, but this specialty is their strength making them more unique and stronger than others.  Another thing Victoria shows is that there is no such thing as a perfect society. There will always be a time where it all ends. Nothing can be perfect; there will always be problem.
 One of the strongest messages I got from reading this book is to never give up. Victoria shows this through all of the conflicts Tris had to go through. This book is one of my favorites, and I would really recommend it.
           



Works Cited

Roth, Veronica. Divergent. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011. Print.

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