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'Divergent' By Veronica Roth
The book “Divergent” by Veronica Roth is a great book full of action and adventure. This book takes place in a futuristic version of Chicago. In this version of Chicago there are five different factions that you must choose from. Amity is friendship or peace, Abnegation is selflessness, Dauntless is fearlessness, Candor is honesty, and Erudite is intelligence. You have to pick a faction to live in and if you don’t you will become factionless. When going to pick her faction Tris, one of the main characters, discovers that she is Divergent. Divergent is when you don’t fit into one faction. Nobody can know that you are Divergent. They consider Divergent to be dangerous. Because she is Divergent she chooses Dauntless. The characterization, conflict, and the foreshadowing leading to the main conflict makes this story interesting. The main character of the story is Tris. Tris develops into a very strong person. Four, one of the Dauntless leaders, tells Tris that being Dauntless does not mean being fearless. “But becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it, that’s the point.” Choosing Dauntless was a brave choice for Tris. She …show more content…
She would go to Dauntless while they were in their fearlandsapes and watch to see if they were divergent. The day before the Dauntless leaders were going to observe the dauntless transfers in their fear landscapes, Four showed Tris that Dauntless had gotten a shipment of serms. They were from Erudite. He was trying to figure out what the serum is and what it was going to be used for. Eric, is the main leader of Dauntless, claimed that it’s a tracking device. “This will inject you with a tracking device that will be activated only if you are reported missing. Just a precaution.” He injects almost all the Dauntless with the serum. The Dauntless that were not injected were on Jeanine’s side of the

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