What is Divergent?
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...