Abnegation: The Selfless

Each week I am going to post about an individual faction of the book Divergent. This week I am going to start with the main character Beatrice's faction abnegation. The definition of abnegation is to refuse or deny oneself or to relinquish; give up. If you are in the abnegation faction, you don't like to draw attention to yourself and like to put others before yourself. Others see you as difficult to get to know but quiet and nice.  Your manifestos is : "I will be my undoing If I become my obsession. I will forget the ones I love if I don't deserve them. I will war with others if I refuse to see them. Therefore I turn away from my reflection to rely not on myself but on my brothers and sisters, to protect always outward until I disappear" (Roth 35).