Divergent

In the past weeks I have been reading the book Divergent. The book is focused in on Beatrice. Once you turn 16 you have to take a test to see what faction you belong to. You can go to Abnegation, Eritude, amity, Dauntless or Candor. Beatrice chooses to transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless. She then meets an instructor named four who helps her through initiation. However I think that Four is an interesting character. I believe that he is a complex character and that he is originally from the faction abnegation. 

There were parts in the story that hinted that Four might be from abnegation. Near the beginning of the book there was a part of a paragraph that said, “two years ago Marcus’s son, Tobias, left us for Dauntless, and Marcus was devastated.” This could be Four because you can transfer factions when you are 16 and that was 2 years ago and now Four is 18. Also Tobias transferred to Dauntless which is where Four is, and since you don’t keep your name when you transfer he could have changed it to Four. While Four is talking to Tris after Al killed himself he said “we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.” Tris then mentions that it is a lesson that Abnegation learn which is supposed to mean that guilt is a tool not a weapon. In order for Four to have known that he would have had to grown up in abnegation and then transfer. One last piece of evidence is that Four never wants to share his background. He always says that it does not matter where he came from, it only matters that he is in dauntless now. He is trying to hide from the Faction he came from. 

This can connect to the real world to teenagers or people in general. A lot of people don’t want to share their past. I think that the author is using four as an example on why you don’t always need to share your past. She might also be trying to say that you don’t need to know someone’s past and what matters is the present and the future. She might be saying you should judge people on their past because of what they did you should judge them on what they are doing.