Divergent Is Cool

In Veronica Roth’s #1 New York bestselling book Divergent, the book takes place in future Chicago. In a war torn world, one city fences themselves in to keep everyone and everything else out. To keep the peace in the city they had divided themselves into five groups, or factions. Each faction had its own beliefs about how our world had made mistakes. Each faction took what they thought went wrong and made rules so that it never happened again. everyone is born within one faction and raised by that factions rules, on the year they turn 16 all the 15 year-olds from each faction take the aptitude test to discover which faction has the same values as they do. To take the test you're hooked up with wires to a machine that lets someone see your reactions
The same group that took the tests the day before are all brought to an event conveniently named the Choosing Ceremony where the children become initiates for the faction they each choose. Those whom believed that dishonesty was the worst virtue, created Candor where no one ever lied or told a mistruth. The next is a faction named Amity, who had thought aggression and violence to bring us to our downfall, now made rules to never hurt another and valued peace and harmony. Abnegation, the faction that thought selfishness to be the worst virtue, for that they live their entire lives caring for others. Erudite manifesto says that “Lack of understanding leads to a disconnect among people with differences… in order to eliminate conflict, we must eliminate the disconnect… by correcting the lack of understanding.” (Erudite manifesto- 43). “Intelligence is a gift, not a right. It must be wielded not as a weapon but as a tool for the betterment of others.” (-Erudite manifesto-46). freedom from the fear that causes failure to act in the mist of danger, that is what the next faction Dauntless fought for. They fought to deny fear the power to influence their
Tris is watching her Two friends Al and Will train and then they have to face each other in a fight. But both are hesitant, then Al asks, ""When does the fight end?" "It ends when one of you are unable to continue," says Eric. "According to dauntless rules ," Four says, "one of you could also concede." Eric narrows his eyes at Four. "According to the old rules," he says. "In the new rules, no one concedes." "A brave man acknowledges the strength of others," Four replies. "A brave man never surrenders." Four and Eric stare at each other for a few seconds. I feel like I am looking at two different kinds of Dauntless- the honorable kind, and the ruthless kind."-(97).Al ended up winning the brawl when he punched Will in the jaw and knocked him out, because Eric did not allow the fight to