All 50 Uses of
faction
in
Divergent
- Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair.†
Chpt 1
- The other factions celebrate birthdays, but we don't.†
Chpt 1
- Today is the day of the aptitude test that will show me which of the five factions I belong in.†
Chpt 1
- And tomorrow, at the Choosing Ceremony, I will decide on a faction; I will decide the rest of my life; I will decide to stay with my family or abandon them.†
Chpt 1
- Their faction values honesty and sees the truth as black and white, so that is what they wear.†
Chpt 1
- Candor values honesty, but our faction, Abnegation, values selflessness.†
Chpt 1
- It is likely that we will not walk these halls again after the Choosing Ceremony—once we choose, our new factions will be responsible for finishing our education.†
Chpt 1
- We pause at the split in the hallway where he will go one way, toward Advanced Math, and I will go the other, toward Faction History.†
Chpt 1
- I walk toward Faction History, chewing on my lower lip.†
Chpt 1
- The hallways are cramped, though the light coming through the windows creates the illusion of space; they are one of the only places where the factions mix, at our age.†
Chpt 1
- This sort of thing has been happening to others in my faction for months now—the Erudite have been releasing antagonistic reports about Abnegation, and it has begun to affect the way we relate at school.†
Chpt 1
- The gray clothes, the plain hairstyle, and the unassuming demeanor of my faction are supposed to make it easier for me to forget myself, and easier for everyone else to forget me too.†
Chpt 1
- I turn away from the window and press through the crowd to the Faction History classroom.†
Chpt 1
- The test administrators are mostly Abnegation volunteers, although there is an Erudite in one of the testing rooms and a Dauntless in another to test those of us from Abnegation, because the rules state that we can't be tested by someone from our own faction.†
Chpt 2
- Faction customs dictate even idle behavior and supersede individual preference.†
Chpt 2
- I doubt all the Erudite want to study all the time, or that every Candor enjoys a lively debate, but they can't defy the norms of their factions any more than I can.†
Chpt 2
- What if they tell me that I'm not cut out for any faction?†
Chpt 3
- I would have to live on the streets, with the factionless.†
Chpt 3
- To live factionless is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community.†
Chpt 3
- Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.†
Chpt 3
- Typically, each stage of the simulation eliminates one or more of the factions, but in your case, only two have been ruled out.†
Chpt 3
- Normally, the simulation progresses in a linear fashion, isolating one faction by ruling out the rest.†
Chpt 3
- But choosing a different faction means I forsake my family.†
Chpt 3
- This is where the factionless live.†
Chpt 3
- Because they failed to complete initiation into whatever faction they chose, they live in poverty, doing the work no one else wants to do.†
Chpt 3
- I see a factionless man standing on the corner up ahead.†
Chpt 3
- The reason for the simplicity isn't disdain for uniqueness, as the other factions have sometimes interpreted it.†
Chpt 4
- The test, the walk, and my encounter with the factionless man exhausted me.†
Chpt 4
- Most of the time, though, she organizes workers to help the factionless with food and shelter and job opportunities.†
Chpt 4
- The city is ruled by a council of fifty people, composed entirely of representatives from Abnegation, because our faction is regarded as incorruptible, due to our commitment to selflessness.†
Chpt 4
- Representatives from each of the other factions can speak in the meetings on behalf of a particular issue, but ultimately, the decision is the council's.†
Chpt 4
- It has been this way since the beginning of the great peace, when the factions were formed.†
Chpt 4
- We set an example for our fellow faction members, and soon the three of us are engulfed in the mass of gray fabric ascending cement stairs in the half light.†
Chpt 5
- On the edges stand the sixteen-year-olds of every faction.†
Chpt 5
- They are arranged in five sections, according to faction.†
Chpt 5
- Not everyone in each faction comes to the Choosing Ceremony, but enough of them come that the crowd looks huge.†
Chpt 5
- The responsibility to conduct the ceremony rotates from faction to faction each year, and this year is Abnegation's.†
Chpt 5
- The responsibility to conduct the ceremony rotates from faction to faction each year, and this year is Abnegation's.†
Chpt 5
- Each one contains a substance that represents each faction: gray stones for Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, and glass for Candor.†
Chpt 5
- I will cut into my hand and sprinkle my blood into the bowl of the faction I choose.†
Chpt 5
- They divided into factions that sought to eradicate those qualities they believed responsible for the world's disarray.†
Chpt 5
- Working together, these five factions have lived in peace for many years, each contributing to a different sector of society.†
Chpt 5
- But the reach of each faction is not limited to these areas.†
Chpt 5
- In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.†
Chpt 5
- I think of the motto I read in my Faction History textbook: Faction before blood.†
Chpt 5
- I think of the motto I read in my Faction History textbook: Faction before blood.†
Chpt 5
- More than family, our factions are where we belong.†
Chpt 5
- It is heavy with our worst fear, greater even than the fear of death: to be factionless.†
Chpt 5
- The first girl to choose decides on Amity, the same faction from which she came.†
Chpt 5
- His blood falls onto glass, and he is the first of us to switch factions.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(faction) a sub-group with some interests not shared by the entire group