Divergent follows the life of Tris as she shifts from a child to an adult, having to make choices for herself and what she wishes to be, as well as how she wishes to impact the world. The first big choice she must make is in the beginning of the book, where she has to decide literally what “type” of person she will be through the form of the “factions” that is presented in the society they live in.
However, as we lean at the beginning of the book, she “is” more than one faction; she fits in in several of them. This might be the first lesson Veronica Roth wished that the reader would get. Reading in between the lines, being “divergent” - fitting in to more than one faction - was never a bad thing. Even though the society wished to kill those that don’t fit into the standard, Tris is essentially good. Fitting into everywhere, or nowhere for that case, doesn’t have to be a bad thing at all, just as Tris fitted into all, yet none of the factions, according to the rules of the Erudite.
However, Tris choses to become a Dauntless, which means that she will have to face all her fears. She does this with her head held high, and she later leans to overcome them. This is one of the peaks of the story, where Roth obviously shows the strength of being dauntless. There is nothing wrong with having fears- she says through the lines- but they should never stop you from becoming what you wish to be and following your dreams.
