[korny]

Originally Posted by devonin

Divergent is exactly as stupid and pointless as the Harry Potter Sorting Hat was.

What? Everybody just embodies one AND ONLY ONE characteristic that is who they are? And everybody who shares that characteristic ought to band together and will get along fine because all of them have the same one personality trait? Utterly ridiculous.

Brave, Peaceful, Honest, Selfless and Intelligent, everybody is one and only one of these things...makes total sense.

Well, the sorting hat was more about how certain personality traits are more defining for an individual in order to give them a more resonant placing on behalf of the qualities attributed to the houses, than it was that those characteristics were what made them who they are solely. The analogy is pretty accurate though and not too far off.

Attributing one characteristic to one person as the sole defining trait of those people was yeah, pretty cringe inducing.