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In the novel Divergent by Veronica Roth a 16 year old girl called Beatrice Prior's lives in a dystopian Chicago, in a society which is divided into five factions, each is dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family or being who she really is Dauntless - she can't have both. So she makes the choice Dauntless that surprises everyone, including herself.
During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself "Tris" and struggles to determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy call Four fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death, Tris is Divergent. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves or it might destroy her.

Beatrice or "Tris" Prior is the protagonist and narrator of Divergent. She is a sixteen year old girl who is sarcastic, strong-willed, and dislikes showing weakness, and has been this way ever since she was a young girl but because she was born into Abnegation she has had to hide it under a blanket of acceptance that she has a life focused on serving others although she never fully learned to willingly follow their faction's virtues once she became a Dauntless initiates she could be her self, Tris has always seen the Dauntless as free and willing to do almost anything sometime even if it endangers there life and tris finds this interesting and exciting because abnegation are so strict with seemingly need less rule “It

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