Future Predictions and Questions

  So far in my book a lot has happened.  I am only on page 179 out of 487 but I still have lots of questions and predictions.  So my first question is, why does the Dauntless faction have to get so many piercings and tattoos to show their bravery?  Eric who is one of the Dauntless leaders has many piercings covering his face and head and I feel like this doesn't show bravery at all it just makes him look ugly and scary.  My next question is, what is beyond the fences around the city that the Dauntless patrol?  In the book Tris and other initiates take a field trip to the fence that surrounds the city and Tris noticed that when they closed the gates, the lock was on the outside which makes me wander if they are keeping something out or in.

  Another question I had was, what happened to this future society that made the government turn to the faction system and why are divergents do dangerous to the system?  So the government says that the only way the society will survive is if the people know what faction they belong in.  Many people have different opinions on what led to the faction systems, like some say that people were to selfish and wanted power.  Some future predictions I have is that Four will find out that Tris is Divergent because Tris is intelligent, brave and selfless which means she is more than one type of faction.  Another prediction I have is that Tris will have to fight Peter and she will beat him because she recently just beat Molly and Tris is angry at what they did to her and tells herself that she will hurt them.  My final prediction is that Al and many other initiates will not pass and become factionless because they are to weak or not Dauntless material.

This is the main character Tris practicing on a punching bag.