Bravery and Fear

In the book Divergent written by Veronica Roth. The main character, Beatrice Prior (Tris) struggles with many problems. Tris chose the faction dauntless which values bravery. Tris has learned to control her fear throughout the dauntless simulation in the fear landscape. Tris is a very brave character, she was beaten down by Peter and she still stays up and fight. She has to learn to control her fear and how to keep a level head throughout the simulations. The Dauntless value bravery and that means to be fearless. Dauntless initiates spend a lot of time confronting their fears in fear landscapes."Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it, that's the point." - Page 239. Tris said this after her first time in the Dauntless fear landscape test with Four. She’s saying bravery does not mean complete fearless it means controlling your fears. Tris has shown act of bravery throughout the book. Bravery is a key to conquering your biggest fear.