Possible Theme

Now in my book, Divergent, Tris is starting to go through the stages of the initiation process. If she is not in the top five initiates (based on a scoring system), she will either have to guard the gates into the city or live factionless (homeless). The first stage of initiation is fighting. Tris, who is very small and fragile, had to fight Peter, who is larger and stronger than her. On top of that fact, Peter had been giving Tris a hard time about being from Abnegation since they had first gotten there. In the fighting stage, the two opponents would fight until the other was unconscious or unable to keep fighting. Before the fight had even started between Tris and Peter, Tris already felt defeated. Although, she did hope she could beat him, when she got in the ring, Peter hit her many times. From the start, her vision blurred from being punched in the face and she fell to the ground many times. However many times she fell to the ground, though, Tris would always get back up. She kept fighting until she finally collapsed to the ground unconscious and practically broken.

I think that this chapter/ fighting stage showed a lot of Tris' character. It shows that she doesn't give up easily and she will keep fighting until she absolutely can't anymore. I believe that this could be the basis for one of the themes of the novel, also: If you pursue through challenges, you will eventually become victorious.