She walks to a computer, pulls off her ear and plugs a cable from the computer into her head. The door leads to a basement, with computers and labs. Jane twitches, and afterward systematically walks to a door on the wall around the school. Some few hours later that night, Benson wakes up and tries to wake Jane. Dylan hits Benson and Jane with a pipe repeatedly, until both have fallen. Benson takes an interest in her, but when they are talking outside on the night of the dance, Laura and Dylan, members of Society, comes and stops them. Benson goes with Jane, another member of Variant. If a person breaks a rule, its group loses points as part of the punishment Points which could buy extra snacks, clothes, backpacks, etc.Ī couple of weeks into his new school, there is a school dance. Benson, not impressed by Society or Havoc, joins Variant.īenson learns that the school operated under a system of points, where the gangs do their jobs to earn more. Benson quickly discovers that the groups are constantly at each other's throats and that it's a much more dangerous game than he had anticipated. The variant was everybody else who wasn't in Society or Havoc, kind of like an "other" group. The last group, Variant, which, by far was the smallest group. Havoc, a little bigger than half of Society, were the ones who got their way with violence. Society, the largest group, were the ones who followed and reinforced the rules, keeping the school in order. Often referred to as "gangs" by the students. In order to survive, Benson must join one of the three groups on campus: Society, Havoc, and Variant. Any kind of communication from the outside was blocked, and the school had their own internet. There were no teachers the students taught themselves. Rule breaking is not tolerated at all, and if someone broke a rule, they were sent to "detention". From her, Benson learns that the two students were breaking the rule of attempting to escape the school. Not long after, Becky, his "tour guide" comes to give Benson a tour. As soon as he arrives at school he sees two students: a girl and a boy, run after the car he came from. To him, this is an opportunity to leave his unhappy life, and take on a hopeful new future.
Because he is always switching families, he has no permanent friends always known as the "new kid".
Benson is a seventeen-year-old foster, and hasn't stayed in a family for more than four and a half months. Variant is a book that follows the character of Benson Fisher as he is sent to Maxfield Academy on a scholarship. The book was named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of 2011". Wells has stated that the initial draft of Variant took him only eleven days to write. Variant is a young adult suspense novel by Robison Wells.
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