Veronica Roth's Divergent Essay

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A girl who her whole life was expected to be with her family in the same faction, but because she was in a faction that honors selfless her whole life she doesn’t know her own identity, just what people tell her what she's supposed to be. This book is about a girl who thought she knew who she was, just to find out the who she really is completely different. Divergent by Veronica Roth, the book about finding you own identity. Even when Tris was little she felt out-of-place, especially in her own home. She lives in a faction called abnegation which values selflessness, her older brother is very selfless and so is her mom as this line from the book on page 26 states "But I am not selfless enough. Sixteen years of trying and I am not enough.". That shows how Tris …show more content…

She soon finds her opportunity to change her faction and find out who she really is. In the choosing ceremony everyone expects her to stay in the same faction, but Tris have a different way to go. The fraction called Dauntless values bravery and frowns upon cowardice. Tris feels like that is the way she wants to go who her life. "I am selfish. I am brave." This line from page 29 says that, she's selfish so she doesn't fit in Abnegation but she is brave so maybe she will fit in Dauntless. Tris has just gotten into Dauntless. But she feels like she still doesn’t fit in, cause she falling behind. "Out of my peripheral vision, I see Four shove the door open and walk out. Apparently this fight isn’t interesting enough for him. Or maybe he’s going to find out why everything’s spinning like a top, and I don’t blame him; I want to know the answer too. My knees give out and the floor is cool against my cheek." This line shows that Tris feels like once again this faction isn't for her, cause the guy that is mentoring her and the rest of the transfers she her falling at something that she wasn’t supposed

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