"Divergent" by Veronica Roth features "Tris" prior, a 16 year old girl who was born into abnegation, one of the five factions. Abnegation focuses on selflessness as well as simplicity, as shown by there grey clothes, the same hair and even the same streets. However when Tris takes the aptitude test, a test that decides which faction your really meant to be in, she discovers that shes not only abnegation but also Eurodite, which focuses on technology and knowledge and dauntless who believe in courage and are the risk takers, making her divergent. Many warn her about being divergent, for fear of being shunned and not being normal, which many factions believe one should be. Each faction provides the city with resources and jobs to create a peaceful and healthy city. But on the day of the choosing ceremony, she must make an important decision, will she leave her family? Or follow her own destiny?
The choosing ceremony is one of the most important any person will ever make. It decides there fate, there destiny and where they will belong for eternity. I believe Tris chose Dauntless, the bold risk takers because she was tired of her quiet gray life. She believed that taking a chance isn't bad as the abnegation do. She wished to be just as bold and daring as them and to get more comfortable with other environments. I believe she choose her fate, even though its not what her parents wanted her to do, she believed the right thing was to be in dauntless and to trust her own instinct. I also believe once she joined the dauntless you saw small changes of how she behaved and acted. For example, she got a tattoo, that her parents would never approve of. She also dressed in heavy black dresses while wearing more dark makeup and letting her self become a little more independent.
Tris who was at first afraid of even looking at a mirror is now a take charge kind of girl that we see becoming more comfortable with herself too. The abnegation believe looking in a mirror promotes selfishness, which is something Tris would never do, is now becoming a little more unwinded and laid back. shes afraid, of course, but that doesn't let it stop her. she was the one to first jump the building during initiation and the one to climb the ferris wheel when no one would. She didn't let her fears get in the way and believed she could do it even when she thought she didn't want to. We see her adapting to her new environment and changing not only her appearance but her attitude too.
