Critique of Divergent: A Movie by Neil Burger

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Wow! This was one of the most exciting thrill rides that I have had in a long time. This movie was really good!
In the movie it took place where the world as categorized in to factions. The factions were amity, abnegation, dauntless, erudite, and candor. The main character was Beatrice, “Tris”; her family belonged to the faction of Amity. This group of people was very kind and peaceful. Beatrice and her brother Caleb were at the age that they had to choose their own faction after knowing who they were and to live in that society or stay were.
Tris along with Caleb and all other children that were sixteen had to take a test to find out what faction that they were going to be in. With this test they had to take a clear liquid and with this liquid it would show all of their thoughts on the computer. They had different challenges that they had to conquer and based on the results a faction was chosen for them. When it came time for Tris to take hers, the person that was administering the test was alarmed and immediately asked her to leave and to say that she was sick after taking. Her test was inconclusive, which meant that she was Divergent. She couldn’t be controlled with thoughts or fears that were given to her in any situation. When the time came for her to choose her faction she choose dauntless. This group appeared to reckless, crazy, full of life so to speak. Her brother chose erudite and they were very intelligent. When Tris got in the group she had to learn how to be strong, and brave. She was the first one to take the leap from a large building in spite of her being scared or not. After that she had to jump from trains, she had to learn how to shoot a gun and how to use knife. She even had to fight people on h...

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...I like everything to be peaceful. Based on our Psychology book this movie falls into the Trait Perspective, were the aspect of personality that is inferred from behavior and assumed to give rise to constant behavior.
I think that our society is broken in to faction already because we have the poor, middle class and the rich. This is based on your social status. Most of the time traits are involved such being unstable for the poor to introverted and extraverted for the middle class and the wealthy. Even though we all have traits it very categorize so that regardless of what we do or say it always comes down to what social status that we fit in.

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“Divergent.” 14 April 2014. Divergentlife.com/p/movie.html. 14 April 2014.
Spencer A Rathus. Psych. 2nd Edition Wadsworth, Cengage 2012

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