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initiation
1. initiation of His plan for our salvation
2. “Not with the initiation, with a carnation!” another guy joked and I wondered: Initiation? What kind of initiation?
3. There are no initiation rites
4. And so my initiation into the world of cult
5. What had occurred was a deliberate, planned, devastatingly thorough initiation into sex
6. �Handle the merchandise with care and don't touch, big boy� Linda remarked back in her best initiation of �Mae West"
7. The first seems to have taken hundreds of millions of years before initiation in its present form
8. “The first is that it determines the order in which you will select a job after initiation
9. That means that even if we make it through each stage of initiation, six initiates will not be members
10. “Therefore each stage of initiation is intended to prepare you in a different way
11. All I can think about is making it through initiation
12. Dauntless initiation has stolen whatever softness my body had
13. “I know a few things about Dauntless initiation, and I was worried about her
14. I don’t know how easy it is to find out what another faction does during initiation, but I suspect it’s not that easy
15. She knows about the initiation process
16. “Maybe it will be better once initiation is over
17. My rank can’t be as bad as it used to be, especially after I beat Molly, but it might not be good enough to get me in the top ten at the end of initiation, especially when the Dauntless-born initiates are factored in
18. “That said, it is extremely difficult to rank high at the end of initiation if you rank low in stage one
19. Al isn’t dead last, but unless the Dauntless-born initiates completely failed their version of stage one of initiation, he is factionless
20. “To a little initiation ritual,” he says
21. Which means I have to survive the next stage of initiation
22. AS FAR AS I can tell, the second stage of initiation involves sitting in a dark hallway with the other initiates, wondering what’s going to happen behind a closed door
23. They are a part of life here, just as integral to my initiation as learning to fight
24. “I told you before that the third stage of initiation focuses on mental preparation,” he says
25. Candor initiation would reach things that even the simulations can’t touch; it would wreck me
26. I HAVE ATTENDED Abnegation’s initiation ceremony every year except this one
27. I was so focused on getting through initiation that I barely thought about it
28. “Everything about you checked out: test results, initiation simulations, everything
29. I researched the simulation serum and found out that Jeanine was working to develop long-range transmitters for the serum so its signal could stretch farther, which led me to information about Erudite and Dauntless…anyway, I dropped out of initiation when I figured out what was happening
30. Initiation days, Choosing Days
31. Just in front of them stands a small group of younger Dauntless, including Uriah; Marlene; Lynn’s sister, Shauna; and Lauren, who taught the Dauntless-born initiates as Four taught the faction transfers during initiation
32. He told me, once, that his fear landscape hadn’t changed since he first went through it, during his initiation
33. “For trying to kill me during initiation
34. We were even before that—I almost killed you during initiation, you almost killed me during the attack simulation; we’re square, right? But after that
35. I feel like I might be able to understand—after all, I’ve lost two friends too, Al to the pressures of initiation and Will to the attack simulation and my own hasty actions
36. Mom, Rose, this is my friend Tris, and my initiation instructor, Four
37. Amar, my initiation instructor, taught us that our fear landscapes were always in flux, shifting with our moods and changing with the little whispers of our nightmares
38. “Adapt!” was one of his favorite commands during my initiation
39. I feel the same way I did when Peter pulled my towel away during Dauntless initiation, to be cruel: exposed, embarrassed, angry
40. And standing in the place of my anger is my initiation instructor and friend, alive again
41. The only problem is that at my Choosing Ceremony next year I’ll have to join Erudite, because that’s where the killer is, and I’m not sure I’m smart enough to make it through initiation
42. I hear myself speaking in the voice I cultivated as an initiation instructor, but this time I use it in jest
43. I wish I’d had this technology during initiation training
44. This is where the Dauntless initiation process comes from—I wanted to write about a subculture of people who want to eradicate fear, and exposure therapy is how they go about doing it
45. I did that with DIVERGENT—I was curious about phobias and how to treat them, and learning about that helped me come up with the Dauntless initiation process
46. VERONICA: Sometimes I imagine Tris repeating this to herself during her initiation, over and over again
47. During initiation, is it selfish of Tris to crave victory, or is it brave? Do Tris’s friends have a right to be jealous when she’s ranked above them? If you were Tris, would you forgive them for their reactions?
48. How does initiation change and transform Tris? Do you think she made the right faction choice? How do you think she might have changed if she had chosen one of the other factions?
49. initiation of this flexibility
50. It is a priceless gift but comes with a small initiation fee called