Character Options
1. Personality Profile for Tris: “ISTP” aka “Introvert Sensor Thinker and Perceiver” or “The Crafter”
Basic Summary: The novel I am doing a report on is called “Divergent” by Veronica Roth. The book tells the story of Tris, a girl trying to decide her future. Whether to stay in her own “faction”, which would be Abnegation or to join a different one such as Amity, Candor, Erudite, or Dauntless. Each of the Faction have a quality the promote because they think the lack of hat quality is what caused the world to fall apart. Abnegation promotes selflessness, Candor promotes honestly, Erudite promotes knowledge, Amity promotes kindness, and Dauntless promote Bravery. She ends up choosing Dauntless, and has to get used to the completely different atmosphere.
Description of Tris according to the Myers Briggs test includes:
Strengths
Good at getting themselves out of jams (as the main character, this is one of her best quality, she narrowly dodges multiple situations. For example, she gets in trouble for leaving the dauntless compound and going to the erudite one. She weasels her way out of the situation by convincing Eric, one of her manipulative supervisors, the she just ran away because she was embarrassed over being rejected. In multiple situations, she convinces others by her actions that she is not a threat, making them underestimate her.)
Skeptical and analytical (can be toward the other factions)
Natural non-conformists (doesn’t conform to the Dauntless way of society completely, but it is partially because she is divergent, or a person who could belong to more than one faction.)
Typically tough-minded (has to be to be dauntless)
Adventurous risk-takers (again, it’s a dauntless thing. She actually, during initiation, was the first person to jump into the then unknown)
May show strong marks towards ingenuity (yes)
Weaknesses
Rarely plans things out (she just goes wherever the situation takes her, she doesn’t have time to plan when she is propelled into action)
Can be very blunt and insensitive (not necessarily)
Disdain for hypersensitivity in others ( almost immediately dislikes Albert for crying over being homesick at night (all the initiates sleep in barracks), but mostly because it makes her feel homesick too)
May not take aspects of life as seriously as others would like (in some cases, takes being divergent seriously, but doesn’t always take Four’s advice as seriously as she should, and ends up frustrating him)
Others may read them as being indifferent (not really, she has to be tough though)
Not typically in touch with their emotions (yes, mostly just confused about her feelings towards Four (though to the reader it is obvious that he likes her), her family when she finds out all the things they have hidden from her, and her indecisiveness between her old faction and her new one)
Tris is an introvert, even though she has many friends she has to be alone sometimes. Especially with all the weight of secrets she is carrying around on her shoulders. At one part she says “I sit in a hallway I don’t recognize. I walked here because I needed to get away from the dormitory” She does this multiple times throughout the novel. Tris is more of a sensor than intuitive, though it is almost a tie. She gets distinct feelings about things, more than actually knowing things. Tris, if she is to survive as a Dauntless initiate, she must be be thinker. She has to be able to know what to do in tough situations and act on it. She must be able to perceive other’s emotions. For example, violence is prevalent among the initiates, especially Drew and Peter, who have set their eyes on bringing down Tris, who's scores threaten theirs. She has to be able to tell when their violent tendencies are starting to emerge so she can quickly make herself seem as if she isn’t threat by seemingly submitting to them.
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