Reason behind the creation of the factions? Do they work?
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Re: Reason behind the creation of the factions? Do they work
Peace may have had a part in it, but it clearly didn't work!
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I also think it was to distract people. If they keep trying to live up to the expectations of their faction, they won't have time to think of anything being wrong in their society, let alone do something about it.roguexunited wrote:As I was reading the book I was constantly reminded of Lois Lowry's The Giver, where on paper everything sounded reasonable, but in practice it failed horribly. That is the sensation I got with Divergent. I also think that it was very clever to describe each fraction by its virtue because it becomes a distraction from what really is happening.
I do think that idea was a little commonplace because I can think of a whole bunch of other novels that have a very similar dystopian layout that simulates order. Brave New World, Guilliver's Travels (book 4), The Handmaid's Tale, to name a few.
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They believe that the factions were created to keep peace and that they divided themselves. We later discover in the series that the US government made multiple cities similar to this but with different methods. They split them into factions so that they could someday hope that people would heal and have every trait.
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But it did in fact cause problems that they didn't expect. Like the Erudite trying to take over
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-- 28 Sep 2014, 17:26 --
I don't actually see the point of fractions or districts. Cause in the end they never work out
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