“A choice can transform you” (Roth). Every choice made affects the future. Every choice has consequences. Every choice can change everything. Divergent, a dystopian society novel by Veronica Roth, tells the story of a girl named Tris and her four superiors who overcome the challenges of being involved in a utopian society gone wrong. Society is divided into five factions: Bold, Erudite, Self-sacrifice, Sincerity, and Friendship. Factions are made up of members of society. Everyone has a faction they belong to, unless they're Divergent. Divergent means tending to be different or moving in different directions. Tris and Four are both divergent, with only a handful of others. Tris and Four make decisions that change their destiny, such as selecting their actions in the aptitude test, choosing to reveal their secrets to each other, and defending each other. When members of the Warped Chicago turn 16, they must undergo an aptitude test, which involves making choices and performing actions to ultimately achieve a result. The result they receive is the faction they belong to; but there is one exception. Anyone who is Divergent does not receive a single faction as a result; they receive the result of three factions they could fit into. Tris wakes up in her mock aptitude test in the school building cafeteria. Two baskets are placed on the table: one with cheese and one with a knife. Tris is told to choose, but she doesn't know which one to choose, so she doesn't. The author says: “Choose! She screams. When she yells at me, my fear disappears and stubbornness replaces it” (Roth, 14 years old). The quote tells us that Tris's Divergence shows when she doesn't know which object to choose, then she becomes stubborn and doesn't...... middle of paper ...... which controls the simulation and destroys the data" ( 453). This shows how determined she is to stop the program, so that Abnegation is not destroyed and no more people are killed than necessary. Tris' loyalty and defense of Tobias changes her by demonstrating her ability to take control in an intense situation and do the right thing. The choices Tris and Tobias make, such as choosing their actions during the aptitude test, letting each other know their secrets, and defending each other, impact the overall plot of the book and the fate of society and the characters. As stated in this essay, one choice can change everything. A choice a person makes can permanently change their future. The moral is to make wise choices, because the choices a person makes can transform them. “One choice decides your friends…your beliefs…your loyalties forever” (Roth).