My outside piece is a haiku inspired by my feelings toward my mother when she used to smoke very often in places like outside on the front porch or even in the garage. She has been smoke free for a few months now and I am very proud of her and very glad that we will get to spend more time together on Earth. The novel and my piece both emphasize the power you have to change your life by making choices, whether it is the right or wrong one. The book explains how Tris must choose her faction that will change everything she has known or will know in her life. Her values, morals, friends and even enemies all change along with the way she reacts to people and processes emotions and decisions. Even the minor decisions she makes have immense power. For example, when she decides to let Tobias point the gun at her head instead of shooting him herself. This choice led to Tobias's realization of what he was doing that saved her life and Tobias's life. The outside piece relates to the novel because my mother had the power to keep the cigarette chemicals from consuming her life and her lungs which could have ultimately lead to her death. Even the simple choice of setting the cigarette down once could lead to the extinction of the habit. The choices she makes has the power to end her life, or even prolong it. The theme my group chose was Power and Significance, which is shown in the sentence: "One choice can transform you." As I have said before, you AND your choices hold the power to change lives.