Internal conflict in this book is used more for characterizing Tris: her personal struggles and weaknesses. There are bits of pieces of this scattered throughout the story, like her size, emotional attachments to her old faction, ect.
I think external conflicts play a bigger role in Divergent because if it wasn't for the idea of factions, Tris wouldn't really be struggling. In the book, she is teased about being a "stiff", or an Abnigation transfer, but being "divergent" (belonging to more than one faction) is defiantly the main struggle. It is a dangerous thing to be divergent in the book's setting: a future civilization set in Chicago. Where I am in the book, Tris has recently got into trouble with the government, specifically Jeanine, an important Erudite figure. She questions Tris, suspecting that she's causing trouble.
Also, Tris (because she is divergent) isn't allowed to see her family anymore since she switched factions. She misses them very much, and when she does try to see her brother in chapter 28, she gets into trouble with her brother and authority.
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