Summary:
Divergent starts off introducing you to a world where everyone is split up into five different factions, the Abnegation who represent selflessness, the Amity who represent peace, the Candor who represent honesty, the Dauntless who represent bravery and the Erudite who represent intelligence. Every year every sixteen year old goes through a test to see which faction they belong in but the main character Beatrice didn’t get a specific faction instead they are labeled a Divergent, someone who fits into multiple factions, and are told that being Divergent is bad and to never tell anyone. they then go to an event called the choosing ceremony where they get to choose which faction they want to go to by cutting themselves and spilling …show more content…
Everyone makes it through stage one of initiation and stage two starts, stage two is a simulation where you face your worst fears, the people with the best times in the simulation get through to stage three, Tris has record times and Four realises that she is Divergent, he explains that Divergents can alter the simulations and tells Tris to stay close to the middle of the ranks, she is first in the ranks at the end of stage one beating Peter, later that night Peter, Molly, Drew and Al attack and try to kill Tris, she survives and Al kills himself the next morning. Stage three is pretty much the same as stage two but in a room with people watching, at night Tris sneaks out of her room and finds out Eric is working with Jeanine who is the leader of the Erudite who want to overthrow the abnegation government. At the end of stage three everybody gets an injection and they go to sleep. The next morning Tris wakes up to find everybody sleepwalking, she figures out that they are in a simulation and going to kill the Abnegation, she tries to fit in so she doesn’t get caught she finds out that Four is also Divergent, they go destroy the simulation and the Dauntless retaliate. Tris and Four and a few other people run to the Amity in hopes of them being kind, the Amity set up a safehouse