This book is set in some fantastic future landscape where people are grouped under several factions, where for example Amity produce vegetables, fruits and farm animals. For anyone who is factionless, it means the person works as sanitation worker, train driver or such jobs and survives on the fringe of society.
Beatrice Prior was born in the faction Abegnegation. In this faction they dress like the puritans and are selfless by choice. Most adults in Abegnegation work as leaders in the government. On her 16th birthday, she took a test that should indicate that her nature is suitable to join a certain faction. But the test was inconclusive. The volunteer erased her test and entered the result of Abegnegation by hand. The very next day, Prior chose to join Dauntless.
In Dauntless, she learned to jump onto and out of moving trains. Then she had to jump from the roof of a tall building into a huge net to prove her courage. Throughout her weeks of learning about combat and facing her internal fears, she had to hide the fact that she was likely to be a divergent. For others told her that divergents that are discovered ended up dead by foul play.
In the process of an ambitious woman from Erudite conspiring with Dauntless to overtake the government, Prior lost both her parents. She managed to escape with two other Dauntless members to live another day. By then we know that divergents are not affected by the chip injected into their necks to control them, hence the mastermind wanted to kill every single divergent.
When I think about it, our young folks are required to make up their minds about choosing a certain profession at age 17. By choosing arts subjects in pre-u, one excludes science majors. In a sense it is also a major decision with far reaching effects.
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