Divergent 3-103

All of the sixteen year-old kids from each faction gather at one of the schools in the futuristic Chicago to take an aptitude test. There are five factions in the city. These factions were formed because their ancestors decided that it was the fault of human personality that lead to the warring world they live in now. Each faction blames a certain trait that caused this and value a certain trait that they think is best. Abnegation values selflessness and blame selfishness. Amity blames aggression. Erudite blames ignorance. Candor blames duplicity. The final faction, Dauntless, blames cowardice. Beatrice is a girl from the Abnegation faction. Today, her and her brother, Caleb, will take an aptitude test to show which faction they would fit in best with. The test is actually a dream that will rule out factions by the choices they make inside the dream. Once Beatrice is done with the test, her instructor tells her that she is divergent. This means that her results didn't one faction. The instructor tells her that this is serious and should never tell anyone about this. She has much to think about now before the Choosing Ceremony, where they choose the faction they will belong to for the rest of their life. The next day is the Choosing Ceremony. Once again, all of the kids, or initiates, gather around five bowls, each one filled with something that resembles a different faction. To choose a faction, initiates cut their hand with a knife and let the blood drip into the bowl of their choice. One by one, each person takes their turn as they make this life-changing decision. Caleb goes right before Beatrice and chooses Erudite, which is sort of an enemy of Abnegation. It's finally Beatrice's turn. She slits her hand and holds it over the Dauntless bowl. She is the only person to transfer to Dauntless from Abnegation. The Dauntless get on the train to head back to their headquarters. There is an initiation that the transfers must pass to become a Dauntless member. If they do not pass, they will become factionless, or basically homeless. The first step of initiation is to jump off the train and land on a rooftop. All of them succeed except for one, who didn't make it to the rooftop. Next, they have to jump off the building onto the ground below. Beatrice is the first one to jump and is praised for her courage. All that made it get to go into Dauntless headquarters. It is a very dark and dangerous place. Beatrice is asked by their guide, Four, what her name is, and she says Tris. She chose Tris because she wanted to be known as a new person. Tris also makes a friend, Christina. The two get along well and have the same interests. There next part of initiation is that they have to fight one another and will be ranked. The ranking will show which initiates are the best and only the top so many will actually become a member of the Dauntless. During Christina's fight, she argues with Eric, one of the Dauntless leaders, and gets punished for it. Her punishment is to hang from a rail over a waterfall for five minutes. If she doesn't hang on long enough, she dies. Luckily, she barely hangs on for the time and is pulled to safety.