Divergent

        Divergent, by Veronica Roth, is about a young girl named Beatrice, or Tris for short, and her life through the divergent universe. She lives in a society the defines its citizens by their social and personality-related affiliation with five different factions: Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), Erudite (the intelligent), Abnegation (the selfless), and Candor (the rulers). Tris is born into a family of Abnegation, but chooses to be Dauntless. In doing so, she begins to have a romantic relationship with her instructor nicknamed Four.

         I chose this book to read because of my friend Garrett. He recommended this selection to me as he knows I love an action packed book filled with excitement. Since I started reading this book I have truly began to like it a lot, it has many scenes in which fights break out between friends and factions. Im not saying I enjoy violence, but the reason people get into fights or arguments really interests me, and it's a very occuring subject in this book.

        A grand connection I can make between this book and our world is the idea of spliting social classes in our society and the spliting of citizens into factions in the Divergent society. As said before, the factions are split into certain groups of people who act and think in similar ways. For example, in the faction Dauntless, only the bravest and most corageous citizens enter this faction. I can connect this to our society because the people of our time tend to split eachother up into our own separate factions unwillingly. I say this because of the fact that school itself is split into social categories such as the popular group, the nerdy, more scholar like, group, the sports 'junkies' or sports players, the more normal and mature group, the dweebs, and also the kids who aren't as smart. These social classes relate to the five factions of the Divergent society as they both split groups of people up based upon certain charateristics or behavior.

 

 

Here are some of the social classes found in our young society today (not including all, only some).