How Factions are Chosen
Children in Divergent are born into one of the five factions. They live in these factions for the first sixteen years of their life. At the age of sixteen, they are given an aptitude test to determine what faction's trait they most represent. The day after this test, every sixteen-year-old is to participate in the choosing ceremony. In the choosing ceremony, they can choose to be in whatever faction they want. They can stay in the faction with their parents, or branch off and begin a new life in a different faction.
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The Factions |
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Abnegation
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The Selfless |
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Those in Abnegation are the most selfless ones in the city. They believe that selfishness is the root of all human mistakes, and that they should choose to never worry about themselves, and only worry about others. As a result of their drive to serve others, they are the leaders of the city.
Those who choose Abnegation at the choosing ceremony must initiate themselves by spending thirty days performing community service. They then listen to the Abnegation manifesto and share a meal together.
Those who choose Abnegation at the choosing ceremony must initiate themselves by spending thirty days performing community service. They then listen to the Abnegation manifesto and share a meal together.
Amity
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The Peaceful |
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Those in Amity are the peaceful faction that attempt to keep everything under order. They dislike war and want to have a peaceful society free from conflict. They run the farms for all of the factions and initiation involves fruit-picking and song-singing.
Candor
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The Honest |
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Those in Candor do not tell a lie. They pride themselves on being open and impartial and blamed deception and dishonesty is the root of all human faults. They believed their honesty would lead to a more peaceful society.
Candor Initiation includes taking a lie detector test everyday and taking truth serum before answering any questions. They believe that if you reveal all of your secrets, you will have no reason to be dishonest.
Candor Initiation includes taking a lie detector test everyday and taking truth serum before answering any questions. They believe that if you reveal all of your secrets, you will have no reason to be dishonest.
Erudite
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The Intelligent |
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Those in Erudite are in the constant pursuit of knowledge. They blame human ignorance for all of humans faults. The faction keeps the city's and factions records and have most of the city's librarians, doctors, scientists and teachers. They are responsible for most technological advancements. Erudite also despises Abnegation and believes that they should not run the government, and are not as selfless as they appear.
Dauntless
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The Brave |
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Those in Dauntless are the most fearless there are. They blame cowardice for all of human faults. The faction is responsible for security, mainly to guard the fence that surrounds the city.
The Dauntless initiation is taken the most serious out of all of them. Directly after the choosing ceremony, those who choose Dauntless have to jump off of a moving train, onto the roof of a building. Those who do(and survive) that must then jump of off a seven story building without knowing what is at the bottom. Those who achieve that must then go through the three stages of initiation. These include physical, emotional and mental. First, they must learn how to fight, and must fight each other to move on. They are then put into a simulation to determine their fears, and make them face them. They are then put into a fear landscape and forced to face every fear. After all stages, they are scored and those outside of the top ten are removed and end up factionless.
The Dauntless initiation is taken the most serious out of all of them. Directly after the choosing ceremony, those who choose Dauntless have to jump off of a moving train, onto the roof of a building. Those who do(and survive) that must then jump of off a seven story building without knowing what is at the bottom. Those who achieve that must then go through the three stages of initiation. These include physical, emotional and mental. First, they must learn how to fight, and must fight each other to move on. They are then put into a simulation to determine their fears, and make them face them. They are then put into a fear landscape and forced to face every fear. After all stages, they are scored and those outside of the top ten are removed and end up factionless.
The Factionless
Those who are factionless do not belong to one of the five factions. They are poor and separated from the community. The factionless do the jobs no one else wants to, like factory workers, garbage collectors, and janitors.
People become factionless by not completing the initiation in one of the factions or are kicked out for some reason.
People become factionless by not completing the initiation in one of the factions or are kicked out for some reason.
The Divergent
The Divergent are a rare few who are different from the rest of society. Being Divergent is not a good thing in this city. People consider them dangerous as their mind cannot be controlled or adapted. The majority of those born Divergent are from Abnegation.
Those who are divergent do not know it until there aptitude test. For common people, the aptitude test only shows one faction in which a person is best suited. However, for a divergent, they receive multiple factions as their mind is more capable than others.
Those who are divergent do not know it until there aptitude test. For common people, the aptitude test only shows one faction in which a person is best suited. However, for a divergent, they receive multiple factions as their mind is more capable than others.