FOUR

     A society is divided into five factions to focus on eradicating specific evils.  Candor attempts to diminish dishonesty; Erudite, ignorance; Amity, aggression; Abnegation, selfishness; Dauntless, cowardliness.  At age 16, young citizens are free to construct their own identity by choosing a faction in which to live, staying in the same one as their parents or selecting another.
    After Tobias chose his faction, he learned that unlike most teens with many fears, he only had four: heights, claustrophobia, his abusive father, and becoming too violent.  He then received his new name Four and his journey to adulthood began.  He learned to shed all the people who wanted to form and shape him and instead began to form and shape himself.  He grew to discover that bravery is the highest form of wisdom and that life should be lived without fear.  As he learned about trust, love, and loyalty, he became free.
     Each faction required it's members to conform in dress and behavior and adopt an exaggerated form of virtue.  This narrow-minded thinking sliced away at all the different parts of the individual.  This society could not continue to succeed.