Those who fail the initiation of their particular faction are deemed factionless, who are treated as a lower class and a drain on society. Divergent are a threat to the stable society, hunted and killed by the ruthless leader of Erudite, Jeanine, in order to eliminate the 'threat' of independent thinking. She is warned never to share this information with anyone for fear of her life. This classifies her as 'Divergent' and capable of independent thought beyond the restrictive nature of the factions. Tris tests out for equal aptitude with three different factions: Abnegation, Erudite, and Dauntless. The factions are Abnegation to uphold selflessness, Amity to uphold peacefulness, Candor to uphold honesty, Dauntless to uphold bravery, and Erudite, to uphold knowledge. This removes the threat of anyone exercising independent will and re-threatening the population's safety through war or another human-created catastrophe. The story background discusses how a future, ruined Chicago becomes a society that defines its citizens by strict conformity to their social and personality-related affiliations with five different factions.
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