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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 7 years ago

What's divergent about?

I've heard it mentioned as dystopian in the same breathe as The Hunger Games. Judging by that, and by the fact that the movie posters are all resplendent with pictures of attractive teenagers, I've assumed that it's not really dystopian in nature and instead mainly chronicles the efforts of a group of teenagers to destabilize their oppressive government. But that's all I know about it. I don't need a plot summery so much as I need a description of the setting.

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  • 7 years ago

    In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

  • 7 years ago

    It is about factions and a girl named Tris. If i tell u more, i will be called a spoiler cos i will unintentionally tell u everything so for more information visit the website below. ⬇⬇⬇

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    dytsopia: A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is a community or society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening. It is the opposite of a utopia

    Oh, it's a dystopia, all right. A dystopia doesn't necessarily mean "a post-apocalyptic wasteland" although that's what we're led to believe Divergent is set in. A dystopia is simply any society that no sane person would want to live in.

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