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Christopher Loera

Professor Melissa Filbeck

English 113A

Divergent Essay rough Draft

Imagine being divided into one of five jobs and not seeing your family after the

age of eighteen. There are many movies that are being presented with a dystopian theme

such as Divergent which was directed by Neil Burger in 2014. Comparing life in the

movie Divergent and life in our present day is not so different when it comes to social

division. In Divergent the community is divided into factions which can be compared to

our society where people are divided by race, in the government, neighborhoods, schools

and even jobs.

The movie Divergent is set in the future. When you are born you inherit your

family’s faction but it’s not until you’re 18 when you take a test and you get to choose

your own faction out of five. Once you choose this faction that means there is no going

back from your decision, the one you choose is the one you will die with. This faction

that you choose will be your new family and your number one priority. Your new motto

will then be “Faction over blood”. Meaning your old family is nothing it’s the future you

will have with your faction.

There are many ways that our society gets divided but the most popular way is

through race. Not only because of the history that goes behind the word but it’s who we

are physically. Take a look at our government. We’re not just a number to them but we

are labeled as White, Hispanic, African American or Asian. Any papers that we fill out

for the government they make you check a box based on your race. It is said on the NCBI

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website that the most popular documents that require for people to put down a race or

ethnicity are hospital forms, when people go to vote and when the census comes around

every ten years (Campbell). The people of color feel that when they put down their race

and ethnicity the government already have many stereotypes about them presumptions

that might view them in a bad way. People say that when they fill out any papers that it

shouldn’t matter how they look or who they are the only part that should matter is the

answer to the questions being asked. In Divergent the clothing that each fraction wears is

like their race because each fraction is known for their color and attitude. Once you

choose your faction you cant switch such as today you cant change the color of your skin.

There are thousands of cities in the United States. Most cites are known for their

race population, of course there’s a mix of races but there is always a majority race. We

tend to categorize our own cities. We say South L.A is known to be majority African

American, East L.A is populated with many Latinos, Beverley Hills has a lot of Persian

decent and Sherman Oaks is majority white and Jewish (Vanhemert). Some people tend

to choose certain cities to stay in based on their race. But the influence goes back to the

slavery times and how people of color were segregated from whites. If it wasn’t for the

slavery era most cities in the world today would be mixed and not dominated by a single

race. This idea is very much presented in the movie based on how the community is

divided up into 5 sections. Within those five sections it is only fraction populated

meaning anyone in the Dauntless section will only be people from Dauntless with the

same clothing to make sure your from that fraction. Such as when Tris the main actress

goes to visit her brother at his fraction everyone gives her a weird look, making it

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Christopher Loera Professor Melissa Filbeck English 113A Divergent Essay rough Draft Imagine being divided into one of five jobs and not seeing your family after the age of eighteen. There are many movies that are being presented with a dystopian theme such as Divergent which was directed by Neil Burger in 2014. Comparing life in the movie Divergent and life in our present day is not so different when it comes to social division. In Divergent the community is divided into factions which can be compared to our society where people are divided by race, in the government, neighborhoods, schools and even jobs. The movie Divergent is set in the future. When you are born you inherit your family’s faction but it’s not until you’re 18 when you take a test and you get to choose your own faction out of five. Once you choose this faction that means there is no going back from your decision, the one you choose is the one you will die with. This faction that you choose will be your new family and your number one priority. Your new motto will then be “Faction over blood”. Meaning your old family is nothing it’s the future you will have with your faction. There are many ways that our ...
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