Throughout Veronica Roth’s “Divergent”, the protagonist Tris struggles with her Abnegation origins and her test results, which revealed she best fit into a category that incorporates all of the factions: Divergent. She changes and develops as a character as she has new experiences and faces new challenges. Different situations bring through different aspects of her Divergent nature. Tris has a difficult time with the other emotions that are correlated with the other factions, such as she does not really understand Amity’s happiness or the Candor’s truthfulness. These feelings are reflected in the test results, where instead of the two options presented to her for dealing with the dog, she chooses the alternate route, which is allowing it to sniff her and become relaxed. Then, a child runs toward the dog, which then turns vicious and tries to injure the child, but Tris intervenes. Then, on the train, a man asks her if she recognizes a “murderer”, and if she does she can help save him, but she …show more content…
Along the way, she meets new friends, one of which is Christina, and their introduction is shown here: “You all right?” the Candor girl who helped me asks briskly. She is tall, with dark brown skin and short hair. Pretty.” They then shake hands and are friends from there on out. While preparing to jump onto a building from their moving train, she encounters Molly, Peter, and an unnamed Amity boy. They all jump off of the train and are successful, but one girl doesn’t make it. Her friend Rita is screaming and crying at the sight of her friend’s broken and lifeless body. “Rita sinks to her knees, sobbing. I turn away. The longer I watch her, the more likely I am to cry, and I can’t cry in front of these people.” (Roth 26). Here, fear and emotions are frowned upon. Tris realizes she will either have to shape up or ship