Tris In Veronica Roth's Divergent

In Veronica Roth’s Divergent, Tris has to make the most important decision of her life by choosing a new faction. Tris was born into a selfless faction, but she has a difficult time playing by their rules. On the other hand, she fits right into her new faction, and she enjoys the freedom that her old faction was not able to provide. Therefore, even though Tris hesitates about being in Dauntless, her lack of Abnegation qualities proves otherwise. This can be seen by looking at her lack of selflessness and her abundance of bravery.
Tris feels as if she is not selfless enough for Abnegation, she has always felt as if she was an outsider because she does not act like the others in her faction. She observes them, and she wishes that she could be
If Tris was truly meant to be in Abnegation, she would have let her blood drip onto the stones instead of the coals. Choosing Abnegation would have been selfless because she is doing it for her parents, who had already lost one child, but instead, she chooses her own needs before theirs. This is why, when she lets the blood drip onto the coals, she thinks “I am selfish. I am brave” (Roth 47). This shows that Tris does belong in Dauntless and not in Abnegation, because it takes bravery to go against her family like that, and it was not a selfless act to choose another faction over her own. She proves her bravery in other ways, by jumping out of the train, and by climbing the Ferris wheel, which is a feat that even Four is afraid of. Tris has never known any life other than Abnegation, and she has never been taught about the Dauntless way of life, yet she still manages to do all these brave feats without the help or encouragement of her family or friends. When Tris hops onto the train as soon as she chooses Dauntless in the choosing ceremony, she is worried about the choice that she made. She worries that she will not fit in with the others. That is why she decides to jump first into the Dauntless headquarters. Before she jumps, she thinks “I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave” (Roth 57). This shows that even though she was hesitating about jumping into the pit, her bravery helped her to pull through, and it helped to give her the courage to be the first one to jump. Tris has been debating what faction she should pick in the choosing ceremony, and her willingness to jump into the pit proves that she made the right decision, because only a member of Dauntless would want to jump into the pit, and a member of Abnegation would never have even made it off of the train. A member of Abnegation would never be able to survive