Divergrent Now
: Value self-denial and focus on helping others; they are the ruling faction.
: The central conflict involves the protagonist, Tris Prior, discovering she is Divergent and choosing to leave her home faction for Dauntless. Divergrent
: Value knowledge and logic; they are responsible for the city’s technological and scientific advancements. : Value self-denial and focus on helping others;
: The government seeks to hunt down and eliminate Divergents because their minds cannot be controlled by the simulations used to maintain order. : The government seeks to hunt down and
: Value truth and transparency; they wear black and white to represent the lack of "gray areas" in truth.
: Value courage and physical strength; they serve as the city's protectors and soldiers.
The society is divided into five factions based on specific human virtues, designed to eliminate the qualities believed to cause war: