Divergent Movie Analysis

Benis Munganga - Analysis Paper -SO-100-VB -Summer 2017

Similarities between the society in “Divergent” and the real world society
Part one

The story of the movie “Divergent” is about a girl who belongs to a certain faction. It is all going on in a futuristic city that happens to be Chicago after being massively hit by a war that caused the population to split into 5 different factions that are based on everyone’s personality in order to maintain the peace. The 5 factions in question are: Abnegation, Dauntless, Erudite, Candor and Amity. Each of those factions have its values. Abnegation values selflessness; Dauntless values bravery; Erudite values knowledge; Candor values honesty; and Amity values kindness. The main character, Tris, is born

There is a lot of norms that help guide the society in question. As an example of a norm in the movie, all sixteen years old have to go through a test that would tell what faction they’d belong to. This norm extends to executing people who are listed by the test as “divergent”. Some norms are found oppressing by the society in the movie just like numerous people in the real world don’t conform themselves to norms established by the society they live in. It then becomes important to mention the notion of freedom still found in the instructor’s notes. People in the movie are not free to do whatever they want to do. They only have the freedom to choose their factions once they are not satisfied by the results of the test. Other than that, the social system that is taking place does not allow them as much freedom as they want. In other words, there is no democracy in a such society. They live like they are under some sort of

I was fascinated by this module because it helps understand the concept of diversity that has existed in the world for years. I liked this topic because it gives us some understanding of others by crossing or overcoming the barriers that we have created in our minds about people who are different from us. Furthermore, the fact that Washburn University itself values diversity made me like this topic more. Nowadays, in any community there is diversity more and more which makes the enrichment of the society. As an international student in an American, I think it is very crucial for me to understand the differences that exist between people in terms of culture. I always like to illustrate society as a bucket of flowers. Thinking of the flowers themselves as the people within a society. Then, a bucket made of identical flowers does not look as great as the one made of different types of flowers. There is true beauty in diversity itself. In my opinion, someone who grew up in a mono-cultural society finds it more difficult to adapt to different life situations than someone who has lived with different