It's not usual for a man to have more than one woman as his 'wife'. At least not in our world with these five factions; Erudite, Amity, Candor, Dauntless and Abnegation.
The Erudite are also called 'the Intelligent'. They are known for their knowledge, either learned or scholarly. And that they want to overthrow the Abnegation. They think that the intelligent people should lead the society.
The Abnegation, 'the Selfless', known for refusing to look at themselves in the mirror for too long. Their clothes are plain in comparison to the other factions.
The Amity, also known as 'the Peaceful', are totally against violence. Any kind. They don't live in the city with the other four factions. One of the main aspects of the Amity is friendship together with peaceful harmony.
The Candor are 'the Honest'. The value being open and sincere. They use truth serum when they think that someone is lying. Almost everyone believes that this is only a rumor. But I know otherwise. I'll get to that later.
The fifth faction, the Dauntless, also called 'the Brave', are the most fearless, undaunted and brave ones in this society. They never seem to be discouraged.
Every faction has its own color to identify itself. The Erudite are wearing blue, mostly suits or dresses that are going to their knees.
The Abnegation wear grey clothes that look really plain and they covered as much skin as possible.
The Amity wear red and yellow, it's suiting their warm and open personality.
The clothing of the Candor is more formal like those of the Erudite. The only difference is, that Candor clothing is black and white.
Last but not least, the Dauntless clothing. It's black and some have also a bit red in it. Many have piercings or tattoos.
I earlier said, that the thing with the truth serum was believed to be a rumor. But I know the truth. I was wandering around many times with a few friends. We saw how the Candor used the truth serum once. That experience and many more made me realize, that there are more dark secrets in this society.
But that is something for later. Right now, my thoughts are with the upcoming 'aptitude test'. Every sixteen year old has to take it before the 'choosing ceremony'. Me and most of my siblings will take it this year. You wonder how that can be when everyone has to choose at sixteen? And women can't get more children in one year? My father is some sort of player. He has more than three 'wives' and with each, he has at least two to a maximum of four children. With each 'wife'.
If someone asked him about it, he would only answer it with 'I love children'. But I knew that he wanted power in our faction. He wanted to be the leader.
What my faction is?
Abnegation.
And I hate it there. Almost everyone was nice. Almost. Everyone except my family. My father mostly wanted strong boys that would fit into Abnegation. He already had some sons, but he wanted one more and that was when my mother had gotten pregnant for the last time. And it was me in her womb.
As I was born and it came out that I was a girl, my father hated me, not believing my innocent appearance. My mother hated me as well, saying that it had been her very last chance to be my father's real wife.
In the end, she had only one son and three daughters, one of them being me. It turned out that I could be very rebellious sometimes, which is also why I have faint scars on my body from punishment. I knew that I was expected to choose Abnegation at the 'choosing ceremony'.
But I, Jennifer Allison Carter from Abnegation, will definitely choose my own fate and not let myself get pushed around by my so called 'family' anymore. And never ever again.