“A new place, a new name. I can be remade here. ‘Tris,’ I say firmly” (60). I chose this passage because I think it starts a whole new beginning in the book. At first, she is Beatrice, that's what her parents named her when she was in the faction Abnegation. The faction Abnegations core belief is ‘Them before I.’ The amplitude test doesn’t work on Beatrice because she is Divergent. When you are Divergent you have an equal aptitude to multiple factions. For Tris, she got Dauntless, Abnegation, and Erudite. People that are Divergent get killed because they cannot be controlled, for they think in multiple different ways instead of thinking in just one way. Beatrice ends up picking the faction Dauntless. When she goes and meets with them for the first time they ask her for her name and she thinks to herself that her old name “Doesn't feel right anymore” she ends up saying “Tris.” This is significant because it’s like she is changing herself from what she once was to what she will become. If she kept her…show more content… I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am divergent” (442). Tris thinks this to herself while everyone is under the simulation that she is immune to because she is Divergent. I chose this quote because I think it symbolizes that you can't always fit in because everyone is different. This passage is significant because since Choosing Day, the day when you chose your faction, Tris has been trying to fit into Dauntless. She has been ignoring her other traits and put herself into a certain bubble of what she's supposed to be. But during all the chaos Tris finally accepts the fact that she is Divergent and will never be like everyone else because she is different. I liked this passage because I think sometimes people try to fit into their label or a certain group, but everyone has different characteristics and no one is exactly the same. It's good to stay true to yourself instead of trying to be something you
