Factions (Divergent)
In the Divergent book trilogy and film series, factions are societal divisions that classify citizens based on their aptitudes and values. The factions are Dauntless, Amity, Erudite, Abnegation, and Candor. On an appointed day every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives after taking a placement test.
In an interview, Veronica Roth describes the factions to have expanded from her initial conception when doing world building. She added Candor to fill "a gap in the reasoning behind the world that needed to be filled."
Many reviews for the Divergent novels criticize the social structures creating the factions within the novel. For example, the Kirkus Reviews, when talking about the first novel, called the social structure a "preposterous premise."
