Personal Narrative: My Story Of Abnegation

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Exposition: Beatrice Prior stares into the mirror while her mom trims her hair. Looking in a mirror was a rare thing for Abnegation. She is very nervous because her aptitude test coming up very soon. Beatrice and her brother Caleb ride the bus to school. Beatrice as walks through the hallways getting shoved and pushed by the people around her, she thinks about the dauntless. Rising Action

1. Beatrice Prior and her brother Caleb (both 16) now must take their aptitude tests to see which faction they are best suited for. Beatrice is very nervous because she thinks she's not selfless enough to remain Abnegation but yet wants to make her parents proud. She gets called right after her brother Caleb. A dauntless woman named Tori helps attach …show more content…

Visiting day arrives and all the families of the initiates both dauntless-born and other factions come and see how their children are going through initiation. Tris finds her mom and goes up and hugs her asking her how she's been but her mom said this is my gift to you I'm going to allow you to talk about yourself today. Four walk over and tell her mom about how well she's doing in initiation. Tris and her mom walk off into a hallway and talk about how she's doing and if she's near the bottom or at the top. Tris also asked why being a Divergent so bad. Divergent is someone who thinks differently and acts differently than everyone else in this society. Her mom warns her never to talk about it to anyone no matter who it is. Her mom asked her to have some dauntless cake for her and her mom walked out of the door. Tris wondered how her mom knew what the cake taste like and how she wasn't so confused and that she knew where the hallways were and she didn't get mixed up. Tris figure it out her mom was …show more content…

Beatrice is a selfless girl who tries to make her parents proud and is always struggling on how she's acting. Beatrice and her family live in the abnegation sector. education is one of the five factions that make up the society that she lives in. she is very brave but most people don't take her seriously because she is so small and meek. in the book she is described as” I see a narrow face, wide round eyes and a long thin nose- I still look like the little girl,So sometime in the last few months I turn 16 “(Roth 7-8)Later in the book she joins don't listen changes her name to Tris.in the book “ A new place, a new name. I can be remade here. ‘Tris,’ I say firmly”(Roth 60).no matter how small Tris is, she will still do her best even if everyone says it is

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