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Reflection About Divergent

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The entire lives of the citizens in Divergent are determined by what they are in. The only freedom that they are granted is the ability to choose their faction. There are five factions with a personality type and those are Abnegation (selflessness), Amity (happiness), Candor (honesty), Dauntless (brave), and Erudite (knowledge). I do not think the factions represent every basic personality. There are some people like Tris who are just not one personality type. I think I would create one that could be for the people who failed the test or feel like they belong to more than one faction.
The reason behind the creation of the factions was to create peace and order within the society. I believe that the factions are working because Tris’s society, the factions have held together the structure in her community. In Tris’s society, the fact that they do not have a lot of choices is not really making the society better. Something else that does not help, is that the divergents have to hide.
A faction I think I would have been born into is candor because of my family valuing honesty. I would have wanted to choose Erudite because of the knowledge and intelligence. At the age of sixteen, I would not feel that comfortable choosing my faction because at that age you are not very experienced. You are young and could make the wrong choice.
A choice that I have made that had changed me is to be more positive. Some future choices that I will also make is to not let certain things and opinions

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