The beginning.

Divergent is a book about a dystopia of Chicago. The entire society is divided into five factions, Abnegation, Dauntless, Erudite, Candor, and Amity. Abnegation are the selfless people. Dauntless are the brave, and protectors. Erudite are the intelligent people. Candor are the honest. Lastly, Amity are the kind. As a sixteen year old you take an aptitude test. This test takes your personality and tells your which faction you would fit into the best. Beatrice Prior and her brother Caleb were born Abnegation; they both recently took their tests. I took a aptitude test online out of curiosity, I scored high in all factions, although my two highest were Amity and Dauntless, the two that I was not expecting to score high in.  In the book, Beatrice scores high in all the factions, and was sent home early, she was told to say that the serum made her sick. Although, in reality, her amazingly high scores in all the factions made her a threat to the faction system. They call people like her, Divergent. Veronica Roth, the author makes a great point when naming the factions, my favorite being her choice of "Divergent", the word diverge means to split apart, making it clear how different Divergents really are. Beatrice ends up thinking about the "choosing day" this is when the teens that have taken aptitude tests choose which faction they want to live in. Once you choose it is permeant. Because Beatrice doesn't have the guide of the aptitude test, she must choose with out knowing which she fits best in. Anyway, after many hours of thinking, she still has not decided. Until the last moment, a drop of blood was hanging from her hand, and fell into the Dauntless bowl. As they chanted "Faction before blood" how do you think she felt?