Beatrice has been through so many new things, she can barely believe it is true. For quite a long time by know, she has been wondering about her future decisions. It has not been particularly easy for her to hide her feelings and stop asking questions. Abnegation are not allowed to.She started feeling like she does not fit anywhere. Her actions become reckless, and daring towards society rules. The most important action reveling her real self is to choose to be part of another faction above staying with her own family.Sacrifice. Selfishness or selflessness?She feels that living according to the Abnegation precepts betrays her own essence. She has been told she is Divergent.She has been recorded Abnegation.She chooses Dauntless.When among her new faction members, everything starts to make perfect sense: her new look, tatooing, the use of new body language, bravery acts like jumping from a moving train.Dealing with plotting and lying is an obscure side of life she has not been in touch with and now hits her on the nose.The way she may change in the future depends only on herself, since she is a Divergent, dangerous.....for whom?
I think the author really captures what young adults struggle with as they try to figure out who they really are. How do people choose to be what they are? Who influences them in one way or the other to be all they can be? It's an interesting question that the author poses throughout the story.
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