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Have you ever stayed perfect your whole life? Of course not! Tris’s mother says “Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again”. I wholeheartedly agree with this statement, in the fact that it is human nature to do wrong things evil misdeeds. This is shown in the book Divergent when the Erudite murder Abnegation members for their own greed and power. Through biblical times as well as in modern day politics we still see people, with good intentions from the start, slowly poisoned by their own voracious greed, and desire for power and wealth.
The Erudite injected serums into Dauntless faction members, using them for their own wicked desires for power. The Erudite had good intentions, as well as all the other factions, to work together relying on each other’s strengths for support in running their world that they live in. As Tris’s mother say, Human beings can only be good for so long before the bad creeps back in, the bad crept into the hearts of the Erudite corrupting their faction. The Erudite eliminated the innocent one by one fo...

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