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Family In Divergent

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Divergent is set in post-apocalyptic Chicago and represents the theme of family prominently throughout . Roth conveyed her message with the examples of Tris’ mother dying and that affect on Tris, also when dauntless became family and Tris demonstrated the importance of family when she went to visit her brother caleb. The author has represented the theme of family in her novel as a very necessary part of human nature even if it is looked down upon within their society.

Tris's, mother Natalie Prior demonstrated the significance of family the bravest and most selfless way possible, sacrificing herself to save her daughter. “Pain stabs through me as everything I am made of collapses, my entire world dismantled in a moment” (p.443). This is an example of how emotional is was for Tris when her mother died for her and even though they are supposed to live by “faction before blood” which is supposedly made very important in school and also once in their new factions. However Natalie put her daughter before anyone else. Although she made the ultimate sacrifice she isn't the only person to show that it is …show more content…

This makes the reader understand just how much family matters to her because she finds it worth the risk of getting into trouble to feel at home, “ “I wanted to go home,” I say, “and you were the closest thing I could think of” “. Tris being away from her family makes her realize how much she misses them and needs to be with them. Even though they both made the choice to leave their faction and family it did not mean that they do not need their family. Tris demonstrated what she is willing to risk to be with together with just one family member and although it may not have seemed that she valued it at the beginning of the novel it's human nature to simply not be alone. To sum up this shows just how important it is to humans to feel apart of

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