Factions

by Lawlietsu

A fanfiction about Divergent by Veronica Roth. This is a story about an Erudite girl that I created, which takes place in the beginning of the book Divergent (The aptitude test and Choosing Ceremony scene). We were asked to make a fanfiction by our teacher after reading the book and this is what I made. Divergent is such a wonderful book. Hope someone reads and likes this :)

Factions

By: Sofia Burke

My name is Sophia, from the Greek word "wisdom". I am an Erudite. I always and forever have loved my faction. I love knowledge. I hunger for learning everything. This world has so much fascinating things. I think everything is fascinating, how we live and breath, love and hate, think and speak, and how one dies and takes his one last breathe. Every animal from the biggest one to tiniest one you could not even see without using a microscope. This whole wide world, including the galaxies, the biggest planet to the smallest, the milky way, comets, asteroids, gases and everything in and beyond outer are all so incredible.

I do not only care about knowledge. I want peace for myself and everyone else, I want to be selfless and not to only care about myself, I want to be honest and not to lie, I want to be brave because I need it and I want knowledge. Knowledge used for the good and never for evil. I do not agree in this society that I live in, society that is split into five factions who have one goal in their life. I believe every one of us should have the right to be courageous, peaceful, selfless, and honest and to have knowledge.

Today, I have taken my aptitude test. My results were indecisive. I was a divergent. It wasn't something new to me because I have learned about it. My test administrator told me to never tell it to anyone and I know why. I know that my life is in danger for being a divergent. She manually inputted my results as an Erudite. The day after the aptitude tests comes the Choosing Ceremony were I choose among Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless, and Erudite. I would live my whole life in the faction that I would choose.

I do not attend the Choosing Ceremony. I have been deciding this since, the day I turned sixteen. I do not choose to be in any of the five factions. I do not choose to live the rest of my life being a Dauntless, Candor, Amity, Abnegation, nor an Erudite. I have, in myself, a part of every faction. I'd rather choose to be factionless and spend the rest of my life being divergent than to be in one of the factions. I believe that everyone does not need to be like everyone else. Everyone should be free to be who they are and not be trapped in one way of thinking. Life is filled with selfishness and being selfless of a group is not going to heal the selfishness of everyone. I would find a way to heal this society I'm living in.