Divergent – ​​Tris I live in a society where you are asked to choose a behavior. Where I live there are 5 different factions you can choose from. There is the intrepid, the friendship, the erudite, the candor and the self-sacrifice. A self-denial was raised in me. My parents and older brother Caleb were supposed to be self-denying, but not so much for me. Our life was so boring. We had no entertainment or anything like that. We were expected to be selfless. I couldn't handle it. It just wasn't me. Thank God we didn't have to stay in the faction we were born into. Our only way out was during the choosing ceremony. We would take an aptitude test to give us advice on which faction would be best suited to us, but ultimately the choice was ours. The day before the selection ceremony, we went for an aptitude test. This test was not a normal test. In this test we entered a virtual world that put us in situations where we had to make quick choices that determined our result on the test. But the only problem was that you had no idea in advance what kind of test it would be. I will never forget the feeling that hit me when they called my name during the ceremony. When I heard “From Abnegation: Susan Black and Beatrice Prior” my chest felt like it was going to explode. I couldn't breathe. I entered the rehearsal room and sat down on a chair. The lady who administered my test was a girl named Tori, who was Dauntless. He had a tattoo on his back of a hawk with a red eye. I asked her about it and she told me it resembled her conquered fear of the dark. She was surprised by my question and declared that she had never encountered curious self-sacrifice before. He attached electrodes to my head and told me to drink this unknown drink, and so I did. I felt... at the center of the card... that I had lost my loyalty. Getting initiated into Dauntless was tough and exhausting to say the least. Immediately after the Choosing Ceremony we had to jump onto a moving train and get off that train onto a roof. And it didn't get any easier. From that roof we had to jump into a cut-out square below to get back to the headquarters. Some initiates didn't make it along the way. The training required us to fight each other every day until we were physically capable of fighting. Gender did not matter in these clashes. We also had to learn other challenging skills, like throwing knives at targets and things like that. As I said before, difficult was an understatement. All in all I'm happy I made the choice I did. Abnegation wasn't the right faction for me, and I didn't think Dauntless was when I was initiated. But I soon learned to love the difficulty and emotion of it all.