Real Life Issue in the Text

    Veronica Roth exaggerates the real world issues of division among people and the choices we make. The fact that there are 5 different factions to begin with really shows how people tend to group with people who have similar beliefs as them. This leads to division among society and in the Divergent Trilogy, violence and other social issues. The first thing i think of when relating this faction system to the real world is political parties. People will take a stance and choose their party, typically based on either their opinions or just how they were raised to be. Then when the time comes to make important decisions that could effect our country dramatically this division slows progress. For instance, the government shutdown that kept people out of work and lost billions of dollars for the government was caused by this division among politicians.