Divergent discussion

There are truly 3 out of 5 factions you get to experience/learn more about when you read the first book, but you get to know the other 2 factions in Insurgent. Abnegations is the first faction to be introduced because Beatrice was born into that faction. What were your impressions of Abnegation? What did you think of the rules, clothing, and ways of life throughout the first book? Do you think they're a little over the top with how they live their lives? Does it remind you of something in real life?

Well...stiff. I'm not crazy on the whole "wear gray and be solem so that you are always preferring others", but I do agree with a lot of their ideals.
Like giving to the poor and preferring others...just wish they weren't so unlively about it.

Yeah, I like how the others call them Stiffs hahaha I can't see myself dressing like that either, but still I would dress modestly in color

I agree with you. I live with a lot of Abnegation ways and tend to find myself in Tris's position all the time, like with the mirror

~Jules:3 wrote: "Well...stiff. I'm not crazy on the whole "wear gray and be solem so that you are always preferring others", but I do agree with a lot of their ideals.
Like giving to the poor and preferring others...."

Ditto. Except, I wear grey a lot (just not by itself. I also wear blacks, blues, and purples).

The Mighty Katara wrote: "I think I could probably survive without a mirror pretty easily, but the continual self-sacrifice would be pretty difficult."

How do you do your make-up without a mirror? Or what if there's something stuck in your teeth? And I'd assume you can't look in any reflective material either, so that outs water and anything metal.

Well, she only looked in a reflective surface once a year...who knows unless Ms. (Mrs?) Roth enlightens us.
And I only recently started wearing make-up, so not that weird:)

Yeah, you're probably right, but a lot of female authors go by their maiden names, and I wonder if that changes the Mrs. or not (I'll have to look it up).

I also don't wear makeup even though I'm 17

Hahaha yay! I be 18 in June so...

Oh, I feel so little:( I'm a freshman.

I'm a junior who is supposed to be a senior...

While, that'd make you a junior here.
I'm actually a grade ahead, so that makes me extra little:(

Marilyn wrote: "I'm a junior who is supposed to be a senior..."

How'd that happen?

Oh, so if you weren't a year ahead you'd be a sophmore. Yay, you're not too much older than me! *claps*

Well when I went to private school for kindergarten, there was only 2 enrolled so the school decided for the 2 of us to wait until the next year despite the fact that I already went to preschool

I'm a sophomore :p

Marilyn wrote: "Well when I went to private school for kindergarten, there was only 2 enrolled so the school decided for the 2 of us to wait until the next year despite the fact that I already went to preschool"

Ah. I get it. Does that bug you at all?

The Mighty Katara wrote: "Livvly {I got the moves like Jagger!} wrote: "Oh, so if you weren't a year ahead you'd be a sophmore. Yay, you're not too much older than me! *claps*"

Old? Me? Gosh no, I'm only fifteen years old...."

Well, two years, and when you said you were in eleventh grade I assumed you were three years older than me...I'm going to stop rambling now.

ℂᖺαᖇᒪἷ℮-ωα ⊰♡1017 & ♡ Tardis!⊱ wrote: "I'm a sophomore :p"

So you and Lydia are the same age:) Cool.

Cool!

Livvly {I got the moves like Jagger!} wrote: "Marilyn wrote: "Well when I went to private school for kindergarten, there was only 2 enrolled so the school decided for the 2 of us to wait until the next year despite the fact that I already went..."

Just a little because I feel like I should be finishing high school agewise, but then realize that I have a whole other year to finish first.

Marilyn wrote: "Livvly {I got the moves like Jagger!} wrote: "Marilyn wrote: "Well when I went to private school for kindergarten, there was only 2 enrolled so the school decided for the 2 of us to wait until the ..."

I think you're kind of lucky. You've got the advantage of being older than everyone in your class (which is an advantage, trust me) and you have an extra year to figure out what you want to do with your life after highschool.
I have one less year.

Oh I've known what I wanted to do since elementary school and haven't changed my mind

Kindergarten/Elementary teacher

I want to be a YA book author or a cartoonist, but I've got no clue what college I want to go to yet. Three years isn't that long...

Three years left in highschool before college.
And come on, you can't be that bad at drawing!

Well...I'm not sure what to say to that...you writing's very good, so it makes up for it.

LOL, you're welcome:)

The Mighty Katara wrote: "ℂᖺαᖇᒪἷ℮-ωα ⊰♡1017 & ♡ Tardis!⊱ wrote: "Cool!"

That is cool :) When's your birthday?"

Beginning of August!

I like the Abnegation....i like their self-lessness. But I think it would be a really difficult life to live.

I didnt mind Abnegation as much as some of the others, i like how they are commited to help one another but yeah it would be hard for me, since i tend ti stare at myself alot.....