Chapter 5

It's Choosing day. Beatrice follows her parents and Caleb to the hub, and up the stairs (it would be selfish to take the elevator). Beatrice thinks about how her legs are getting sore, her struggle to breathe, climbing the twenty flights of stairs to the Choosing ceremony...


If Abnegation plays sports then they would be really good because they ignore how tired they are to help others!

 In the choosing ceremony, the sixteen year olds of every faction stand together, alphabetically. The families sit in chairs arranged by faction, I can't imagine how huge the crowd would have been since it's practically the whole city. Five metal bowls so huge that they could hold a person, sit in the last circle. Each one contains a substance that represents each faction:

Abnegation, who blames selfishness, are the leaders in government.

Erudite, who blames ignorance, are the teachers and researchers.

Amity, who blames aggression, are the counselors and caretakers.

Candor, who blames duplicity, are the leaders in law.

Dauntless, who blames Cowardice, are the protection from threats within and without.

Once your name is called, you must walk to the center of the three circles, not speaking, offered a knife from Marcus, and cut your hand. You choose which faction by sprinkling your blood in the bowl of your choice. Marcus makes his opening speech which sums up to say, welcome to the day we honor our ancestors that decided that it is not political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world but fault of human personality-of humankind's inclination toward evil, in whatever form that is. They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responisble for the world's disarray. The ceremony begins and Caleb's name is soon called, he chooses Erudite!!! The Erudite probably love the fact Caleb joined, betraying Abnegation who are now their enemy. Beatrice now knows she must choose Abnegation, she has to after what her brother just did, but she doesn't! She goes with her instinct, Dauntless.

Chapter 4

Caleb finds Beatrice sitting on the front step. Worried, Caleb and Susan ask what is wrong with her and Beatrice lies. Beatrice later tells Caleb that something happened but she can not tell him what. He seems to agree and does not tell their parents.. During dinner, the father speaks about the faction Erudite. He speaks about how valuing knowledge results in a lust for power and about how devestating it is when a Abnegation leaves their faction. Beatrice questions what faction she shall choose and suprisingly, Caleb tells Beatrice to think of herself. Beatrice and Caleb have a lot of thinking to do before choosing day, the next day. Caleb will definitely stick with his parents and choose Abnegation, Beatrice I can't think the same.

"It will require a grreat act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong." -Beatrice

Chapter 3

Beatrice awakes in the testing room, this time for real. The Dauntless women giving Beatrice her test looks perplexed. She tells Beatrice that she will be with her in a moment. This leaves Beatrice iand myself! full of questions and concerns, considering even the worse, being factionless. Factionless means to live divorced from society, pretty much on the streets! The Dauntless women soon comes back to the testing room to tell Beatrice the news that her test results were inconclusive. The simulation was suppose to help rule out the factions. Since Beatrice refused to pick the knife or cheese, and told the man no, this provide examples for many different factions. Beatrice is Divergent, this information she must tell no one, not even her parents! Beatrice goes home from school, she has a lot of thinking to do for choosing day the next day. Why can't Beatrice tell her parents that she is Divergent?? Do many become Divergent??

"Choose wisely, little girl." -Factionless man

Chapter 2

Beatrice sits in the cafeteria, waiting to take her aptitude test. She describes the different factions. The Dauntless laugh, shout, and are playing cards (the brave). The Erudite talk to each other about books and newspapers (the intelligent). The Amity are playing a kind of game involving slapping each others hands (the peaceful). The Candor are arguing over some issue (the honest). The Abnegation table sits quietly and waits. When it's Beatrice's turn to take her test, she is beyond nervous still. She follows a Dauntless women to a room with mirrors as its walls. The Dauntless women is kind and has Beatrice drink a vial. Beatrice closes her eyes, opens them again and she is standing in the cafeteria again. She sees a basket containing a knife and cheese. An unknown voice behind her yells at her to choose! A growling dog soon makes its way towards her, ready to attack. Beatrice does not choose the knife or the cheese, she instead carefully lays down in front of the dog! The dog then stops growling and licks Beatrice. A few moments later, a little girl appears. The dog then makes the little girl a target but Beatrice jumps in front of the girl to save her from the wrath of the deadly dog. She falls to the ground, the dog and girl have dissapeared. She is now back in the testing room alone, until she makes her way out the door and finds herself on a bus. A man on the bus holds a newspaper with a murderer on the front page. Beatrice recognizes the murderer. The man asks Beatrice if she recognizes the man, he tells her it could save his life if she did recognize him. Beatrice had a bad feeling about telling the truth, so she said no. I learned a lot more about Beatrice in this chapter, she is witty, sensible, but I can also see the Abnegation in her, I'm not sure which faction she will choose, she seems like she is a little of each!

"Can't tell you that, Just trust me." -Tori the Dauntless test giver

Chapter 1

In chapter one, the main characters are introduced. I start to understand Beatrice and her lifestyle as an Abnegation. One rule shown in chapter one, is that, Beatrice is not suppose to look at herself because that would be against her faction, Abnegation. Beatrice's mother cuts her hair in the one mirror that they do have in their house. Beatrice is caught looking at herself while her mother is cutting her hair, which she would usually get scolded for but not today because today was the day she would take her aptitude test. This part made me start to think that their whole city is very strict, maybe no modern technology, very plain. Beatrice and her brother, Caleb, make their way to school. Beatrice observes how her and her brother differ. She takes note on how selflessness comes so easy to Caleb. She is very worried for the aptitude test she has at school today, Caleb is not. Beatrice then questions other factions and what it would be like to be them which makes me realize that the whole country or city is not like Caleb and Beatrice are. Whatever the aptitude test does, Beatrice really needs or wants to pass it, I'm guessing to stay in her faction Abnegation. A few questions rose in my mind for this first chapter. What exactly is a faction? How does the aptitude test further affect you, other then showing what faction you belong to?

"Today is the day of the aptitude test that will show me which of the five factions I belong in." -Beatrice