Veronica Roth: Faction Before Blood

“Faction before blood.” This is a quote used many times throughout all three of the Divergent novels. This saying is very common throughout all the factions in this dystopian society because these civilians are taught to value their own faction over their family. Civilians are also taught to conform to their own factions values and beliefs. Although they are given a choice, people are still forced into segregation. Some like the division, they know where they belong. Others would do anything to rid their society of segregation.
Veronica Anne Roth was born on August 19, 1988, in New York, NY, making her 29 years old. Roth is the youngest of three siblings. She has one brother and one sister, both of which reside in the Chicago area.

Roth says she began writing when she was in around the fifth or sixth grade. She claims one day she decided she was too old to play pretend in her backyard so, when she found out she could create these pretend worlds with a pen and paper, she began writing. Roth says that creative writing was the only thing she loved enough to do constantly, so she studied creative writing in college. Roth wrote Divergent while she was still a Senior at NorthWestern University, mostly during winter break that year (Wiki, “Veronica…”). Roth admits that she came up with the base idea for Divergent during her freshman year of college when she was studying exposure therapy. Exposure therapy involves confrontation of a particular fear or stimuli repeatedly, in a secure, safe environment, until the person’s brain is no longer fearful of that particular stimuli (Roth, “Q&A…”). Roth based Dauntless initiation on exposure therapy. The idea, Roth describes, was sort of a “Bam!” moment. She said that the novel took a while to develop when she came back to this idea. At this point, Roth didn’t have a set plan, she just wrote as she went. As she continued writing, she began to realize that she was writing about her utopia, or ideal society. She then realized her utopia was actually a dystopia. When asked about utopia Roth writes, “My utopia was a terrible place, and no one should ever put me in charge of creating a perfect

Isolation. Discrimination. Partition. Dissociation. Division. Exclusion. Segregation. No matter the word that is used, segregation is a world-wide phenomenon. Segregation can be defined as a separation of either people or things from other people, things, or a main group. Segregation is an institutionalized form of social distance that is expressed by the physical separation of people or things. Typically, people refer segregation to separation of people or the avoidance of contact of people. Discrimination, the unjust treatment of different people based on race, age, or sex, often goes hand-in-hand with segregation. Segregation can either be De Jure or De Facto. De Jure segregation is segregation that is forced by law, and De Facto segregation is segregation based on individual preference. There is also many different types of segregation, including but not limited to racial, gender, age, sexuality, and