I’m not sure what they would wear, though. And hard-working people can certainly take their work too far, as all the factions do with their respective virtues.
They would be in constant motion, and would probably be happy to take over for the factionless. That said, it would be interesting to have a faction centered on industriousness, in which diligence and hard work are valued most, and laziness is not allowed. Abnegation, for example, includes five of the traditional “seven heavenly virtues:” chastity, temperance, charity, patience, and humility. Roth: I tried to construct the factions so that they spanned a wide range of virtues. Q: If you could add one more faction to the world within Divergent, what would it be? That said: Though we hear a lot about high school cliques, I believe that adults categorize each other just as often, just in subtler ways. I think we all secretly love and hate categories-love to get a firm hold on our identities, but hate to be confined-and I never loved and hated them more than when I was a teenager. In a sense, Divergent is me writing through that realization-everyone in Beatrice’s society believes that virtue is the end, the answer. It’s only now that I’m a little older that I realize I am unable to be truly “good” and that it’s my reasons for striving after virtue that need adjustment more than my behavior.
I did spend a large portion of my adolescence trying to be as “good” as possible so that I could prove my worth to the people around me, to myself, to God, to everyone. And that virtue as an end unto itself is worthless to us. The faction system reflects my beliefs about human nature-that we can make even something as well-intentioned as virtue into an idol, or an evil thing. Roth: Other aspects of my identity have more to do with the factions than my age. Q: You’re a young author-is it your current adult perspective or not-so-recent teenage perspective that brought about the factions in the development of this story? Do you think that teens or adults are more likely to fit into categories in our current society? That way, when the good things come, they don’t warp you, and when the bad things hit you, you don’t fall apart. So work hard, fall in love with the writing-the characters, the story, the words, the themes-and make sure that you are who you are regardless of your life circumstances. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient.
Roth: One piece of advice I have is: Want something else more than success. Q: What advice would you offer to young aspiring writers, who long to live a success story like your own?
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