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Dont you just love a happy ending

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Divergent a la Shmoop.

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Beatrice Prior here and Im from Chicago.

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No not that Chicago. THIS Chicago.

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Yeah I live in the future.

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Wicked right So stuff has changed since back in the day.

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Now the city is divided into five groups Abnegation Amity Candor Dauntless and Erudite.

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The members of each group are charged with upholding a different virtue.

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I was born into Abnegation which is sworn to protect selflessness.

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Which isnt easy Ill be honest I kinda like myself.

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One day each year every 16-year-old in the land gets together and takes a test

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that determines which group theyre going to wind up in.

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Very Harry Potter-Sorting Hat-type stuff.

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Wouldnt be surprised if Dumbledore popped out from behind a curtain.

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We get to either stick with the fam or branch off in a new direction.

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Unfortunately for me I didnt fit neatly into just one category.

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Nah my results put me somewhere in Abnegation/Erudite/Dauntless territory.

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But because it was inconclusive I was labeled divergent.

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Youd think it would be a great thing to be a jack of all trades

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but not around here.

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Im not even supposed to tell anyone Im divergent.

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Honestly Id rather have been diagnosed with the measles.

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On Choosing Day I threw everyone for a loop and joined forces with Dauntless the

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group that was all about bravery.

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My brother Caleb went with Erudite. Nerd.

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A new faction deserves a new name so I christened myself Tris.

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Its a cool name in the future just trust me.

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I met some chill peeps in the new digs namely Christina Al and Will.

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And of course my story wouldnt be complete without a few jerks to keep things interesting.

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This guy Peter and a couple of his friends were on my case the whole

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time always telling me I didnt belong.

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Ah well no biggie.

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Just need to get a hold of a voodoo doll thats all.

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And thenschool was in session.

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We were taught by someone named Four.

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Yeah Tris isnt sounding so weird anymore is it We were told we had to

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pass an initiation.

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If we didnt wed get kicked out and would have no faction.

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So no pressure.

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The name of the game was bravery and there was to be no backing down.

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We had to fight each other with guns and knives.

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Did I mention that play time was over But elsewhere trouble was stirring.

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The gang over in Erudite were rousing some rabble They had started making some pretty

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serious accusations about a couple of the folks from Abnegation including someone in the government

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whom they accused of abusing his son andmy own parents.

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The reports suggested that my brother and I were raised poorly because we both abandoned

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our original faction.

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On the upsideat least they avoided any nasty physical abuse charges look on the bright

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side right So while all that was going on we moved into simulations where we

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had to face various fears.

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Please dont let it be spiders please dont let it be spiders I pretty much

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owned the simulations in part thanks to the whole Divergent thing which gives me some mad skills.

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Of course there will always be haters.

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Peter Al and this guy Drew attacked and tried to dispose of me but Four

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came to my rescue.

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Al felt bad about it after the fact butI sure wasnt about to forgive that two-timer.

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Apparently he took that a bit hard because he killed himself by leaping into a chasm.

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Which majorly bummed me out.

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Our final phase of the initiation was the fear landscape.

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Sounds like a painters worst nightmare.

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Here we got to face a combination of all our greatest fears.

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Because I was in tight with Four by now he actually gave me a leg

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up by letting me into HIS fear landscape.

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I also found out that his real name was Tobias and that he was the

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son of that Abnegation leader whod been accused of abusing hisson.

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Ah all the pieces were coming together There were seven fears in my fear landscape

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including drowning being on fire being eaten alive by crows you know the usual.

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Wouldnt you know it when all was said and done I was ranked first Thats

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the good news the bad news is that right after the test Erudite had each

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of us injected with a serum that would make us attack Abnegation.

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But lets focus on whats important FIRST people This serum was intended to turn us

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all into mindless zombies but fortunately it doesnt work on us Divergent folk. i.e.

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me and Tobias.

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We tried to make our getaway but those Erudite guys are TOUGH. For nerds.

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They captured us injected Tobias with a new serum that would override his Divergence and

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sentenced me to death.

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Man I ALWAYS get the short end of the stick.

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But just when things were looking their bleakest my mommy saved the day Guess I

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got the Divergent thing from her because she was one too Her own mad skills

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allowed her to rescue me from my glass cage and we made a break for it.

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But seems like my good news always comes with a dose of crappy.

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While making our escape my mom was shot and killed.

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No time to shed tears though I tracked down my dad my brother and Tobias

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dad and the four of us made tracks back to Dauntless to see if we

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could put a stop to this thing.

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Ready for more crappy My dad was killed too.

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Now Im a Divergent orphan which is like THE WORST.

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Anyway we found Tobias who was under the spell of that new serum and he

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tried to end me.

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But he shook himself awake at the last second and I was spared.

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Together we were able to stop Operation Kill Everyone ridding my fellow Dauntless peeps from

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their mind control.

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Then a bunch of us hopped a train out of town to see if we

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could find any other survivors. NOTE end of file

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