Wednesday, April 16, 2014  Audrey Pietrucha  Our dystopian world
Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain
way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to
learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that
way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We
can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our
leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no
matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
- Tobias, Divergent  At first the movie Divergent appears to be
a dystopian fantasy, a story about a world where people are
divided into factions and are, for the most part, content to
stay within them. The five factions - Dauntless, Abnegation,
Erudite, Amity and Candor – each represent personality traits
for which their members have tested and been found to have an
aptitude. Dauntless are brave, Abnegation are selfless, Erudite
are bookish and intelligent, Amity are kind and peace-loving and
Candor are honest and tr