![]() Beatrice, always having admired Dauntless, joins their faction and begins her training in the Dauntless guild. On your sixteenth birthday you must choose which faction you will be associated with – and if it is one your family is not a part of, you will probably never see them again. ![]() ![]() The four others are Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful) and Erudite (the intelligent). Beatrice and her whole family are in Abnegation, which emphasizes selflessness. Revolving around a young protagonist, Beatrice, on the eve of her sixteenth birthday in a dystopian wasteland future, their civilization of survivors (of what catastrophe we're not told) has divided into five factions, each of which focuses on a different virtue. Perhaps most surprising of all was how good the book actually was. More surprising was that Divergent is Roth's first book, which she wrote instead of doing homework in college. ![]() Not quite of the scope of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games, but some sizable movement. Little did I know when I first picked up a copy of Veronica Roth's Divergent that it was quickly becoming a sensation of its own. ![]()
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