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Divergent
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Divergent is a trilogy of young adult dystopian thriller novels written by Veronica Roth.In a dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a different personality trait: Candor values honesty, plain-speaking, and impartiality. Members are extremely social, tactless and see everything in black and white terms. They wear black and white. Most of the Candors work in law and civil administration. Abnegation values selflessness and self-effacement. Members are sombre, reserved, trained to place themselves at the services of others at every possible opportunity, and bear any abuse from others with good grace. They wear gray. The leaders of the city are chosen exclusively from within Abnegation as they are widely considered to be incorruptible. Dauntless values courage and fearlessness. Members are trained in combat and to suppress fear. They wear black. Most Dauntless work as police or as soldiers protecting the city walls. Amity values peace and cooperation. Members are much more laid-back than the other factions. They wear bright colors, normally yellow and red. Most Amitys work in farming, and they use a notably different political structure from the rest of the city, as well as being located largely outside the walls. Erudite values intelligence and knowledge. Members are rigorously educated in science and elocution, and the faction's emphasis on reading is almost fetishistic. They wear blue. Most Erudites work in science and to maintain the city's technological infrastructure.Every year, sixteen-year olds must select a faction to be a member of for the rest of their life, lest they become factionless. Beatrice "Tris" Prior grew up in Abnegation, unable to think of herself. But when she takes an aptitude test to decide what faction she fits in the most, her result is that she is a Divergent, qualifying for more than one faction. Therefore, she rejects her heritage and joins Dauntless, renaming herself Tris. As she takes the highly competitive initiation test, the conflict that threatens to rip apart the society gradually unravels before her.The namesake first book in the trilogy was released on April 26, 2011. The second book, Insurgent, was released on May 1, 2012. The third and final book, Allegiant was released October 22, 2013. There are also a series of four ebooks that show Four's story from his point of view: The Transfer (Sept 3, 2013), The Initiate (Dec 17, 2013), The Son (Jan 21, 2014), and The Traitor (Feb 11, 2014), with these stories being collected in the book Four: A Divergent Collection, released on July 8th, 2014. A short story called We Can Be Mended was also released in 2017 and served as an epilogue to the series. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: The trilogy kills off major characters in every book, and the last book Allegiant, even kills off Tris, the main character. | |
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Heroic BSoD: In Allegiant, after Tobias finds out that Tris is dead, all he can do is stand still and say nothing. | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy: In Divergent, Eric injects a serum containing transmitters into the Dauntless members that allows him and Jeanine to control the Dauntless, intending to use them to wipe out Abnegation. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: Tris has trouble putting on her pants in chapter 14 because she's built so much muscle in her legs. This takes place one week after the Choosing Ceremony. No matter how hard you train, you will not build that much muscle in that short amount of time. | |
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I Owe You My Life | |
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I Owe You My Life: Why Peter saves Tris' life in Insurgent. He claims to only think in term of debts, and couldn't conceive of doing anything for someone unless it was to get them to owe you a favour. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: Subverted in Divergent, Tris's fellow initiates pass around a silver flask with something strong right before Al's funeral. She refuses to partake in it. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: A war caused by a disastrous attempt to correct human genes that went wrong claimed half of the US population and turned most of the environment into rough, uninhabitable wasteland. The entire human race is now sorted according to whether they are genetically pure or damaged, and being sorted into the latter is...not nice. This predictably resulted in violence that erupted in the metropolitan areas, which are practically the only places where people live. The United States is now a shadow of itself, agreeing to a plan by a certain Bureau which necessitated entire cities to be transformed into giant experimental bottles with the intention to produce more pure people. That goal is not noble by itself, but then the Bureau isolated them for eight generations and counting, which resulted in the people inside forgetingt why they live there and actually flipped the racism upside down, so that now the genetically pure (or as they call, Divergents) are persecuted, ensuring that the experiment will go on for a while. | |
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Brutal Honesty | |
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Candor represent Wrath in the form of Brutal Honesty — telling the truth without regard for anyone's feelings. | |
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Shoot the Dog | |
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Shoot the Dog: In Divergent, Tris has no choice but to shoot Will, who, under mind control, was trying to kill her. | |
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Hufflepuff House | |
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Hufflepuff House: From all of the factions, Amity gets the least mentioned in Divergent. None of the transfer to Dauntless are from it (one tried, but chickened out of the initiation almost immediately), and only one named character is a member of it. They have a slightly more important role in Insurgent. Candor also has a minor role in Divergent, although they also get elevated in Insurgent. | |
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City in a Bottle | |
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City in a Bottle: The people of Chicago, having resided there for eight generations believe that Chicago is the last remaining bastion of humanity, and that what lies beyond the outer gates is desolate wasteland. Averted in Allegiant, when it's revealed that not only is Chicago not the only bastion, the US government still exists, albeit as a Fallen States of America. Half of the US population is dead, but other peoples still exist in other cities, some of which were also formerly used for experiments to produce more GP population. In fact, Tris' mother, Natalie was a refugee from one of those cities: Milwaukee. | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness: A noticeable trend throughout the series, all the good guys are described as pretty or beautiful. Averted with Peter, who is a complete jerk, but is repeatedly described as being good-looking. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Most of the Dauntless characters at the end of the first book are Brainwashed and Crazy to invade and essentially invoke a Final Solution on the Abnegation faction. | |
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Disapproving Look | |
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Disapproving Look: Beatrice mentions her brother has one that she's memorized. | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: The series is implied to be after a major war. Subverted with Allegiant where its revealed that while there was a war, society is still somewhat intact with the US Government still existing but as a shadow of its former self. Though half the US population is dead, many of the Metro areas are filled with crime and fantastic racism. It's also revealed that Chicago is a closed off experiment, one of a few in the Midwest. It's also implied that the west coast is either uninhabited or possibly isolated. (It's not clear as the fringe groups don't go there because the terrain is too rough to traverse.) | |
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The Hero Dies | |
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Then in Allegiant, Tris prepares for her real Heroic Sacrifice. | |
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Dystopia | |
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In this dystopia, teens are forced to take an aptitude test that matches them with a "faction": Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless, or Erudite. The faction they choose, however, is where they end up for the rest of their lives. If they choose no faction, then they become factionless and are forced to be homeless. Also, if their test results do not match with any particular faction, then they are seen as Divergent, meaning they don’t necessarily conform to the thought patterns of their respective factions and therefore can't be trusted. | |
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Crapsaccharine World | |
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Crapsaccharine World: The faction system is hyped up as the reason that the Chicago society can prosper in a world where everywhere else is practically uninhabitable wasteland and everyone considers it as the right thing to uphold. The first thing signifying that there is a major problem is the existence of the factionless, people who are not accepted in any faction and thus have to live as subhumans, yet everyone accepts it as natural, even the protagonist Tris. Then, Tris receives the results of her Aptitude Test which shows that she does not fit in any faction because she is a Divergent, a status which will earn her certain death should the superiors find out about it. This "prosperous" world slowly goes downhill from that point, eventually ending up straight into the Crapsack World territory by the events of Allegiant. | |
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Smart People Wear Glasses | |
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Smart People Wear Glasses: Intentionally invoked by the intellectual Erudite. Purely Aesthetic Glasses are part of their "uniform." | |
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"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight | |
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In Divergent, Tobias is mindcontrolled into attacking Tris. She thinks that her "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight is failing, and prepares herself to die. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: Peter, who is from Candor, claims he is not murderous when being held at gunpoint by Tris in Divergent. He had previously claimed that he was only trying to scare her by throwing her down the chasm and molesting her. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: In Divergent, Tris manages to stop the mind control device and rescues her boyfriend. Unfortunately, many members of Abnegation and Dauntless have been needlessly killed, both of Tris's parents (as well as Will) are dead, she has little chance of befriending Christina again, and Jeanine is still out there. And Insurgent, Tris and Tobias have reconciled and they got the information, but Evelyn has staged her coup and Tris, Cara and Christine are seen as traitors. And then we have Allegiant: Tobias negotiates a peaceful resolution between Evelyn and the Allegiant, Chicago rebuilds, and the Bureau are all mindwiped to no longer distinguish between GP and GDs, but Tris dies. | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: Tris quickly learns that people are more willing to share information after they've been shot. Also used by the Erudite on both Tris and Tobias in Insurgent, in a bid to gather information on the factionless safehouses. Doesn't work until they force Tobias to watch Tris undergo the torture instead via a dose of fear serum. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
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Worthy Opponent: In Insurgent, Tris might be the enemy, but the Dauntless will still honor her for walking to her execution. | |
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The Outside World | |
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The Outside World: Three times throughout the series, from the perspective of Tris: In Divergent, she learns that the world does not function in the same selfless and slow way like that of her Abnegation home when she decides on Choosing Day to transfer to Dauntless, which is anything but slow. In Insurgent, she learns about how the other factions other than Abnegation and Dauntless function when she is forced to go on the run and has to take refuge in Amity and Candor, and then finally takes a step in the insurgency against Erudite. Finally, in Allegiant, she learns that Chicago is not the entire world; there's much, much more beyond that. She also learns why the mindset of the Chicago population is engineered to think that they are isolated from the outside world: they're being used in an experimental project sanctioned by the US government. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Drew is basically a walking punching bag. Peter beats him up during the first stage of initiation, he's put in worse shape by Four when he helps Peter dangle Tris over the Chasm. He fails initiation and becomes factionless and is later beaten up by Edward. | |
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Hidden Purpose Test | |
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Hidden Purpose Test: The aptitude test. Tris mentions that students don't even know what the test entails, and Tori informs Tris that she cannot tell her what's going to happen during it. | |
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Truth Serums | |
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Truth Serums: The serum associated with the Candor faction is, of course, truth serum, used for trials, interrogations, and Candor initiation. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Peter. He goes out of his way to make Tris's life miserable, from throwing petty insults to outright sexually assaulting her and trying to kill her. | |
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Motive Decay | |
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Motive Decay: Discussed. The Factions were founded with good intentions, to uphold just virtues and lead society to a better place than what had lead everyone to war. But over time, the Factions began to corrupt what they originally stood for. Four discusses how the Dauntless used to value teamwork and brotherhood as parts of bravery. In recent times, it is competition and ferocity that most of the Dauntless leadership respect and teach their initiates. Will, who was born Erudite but transferred to Dauntless, tells Tris how the Erudite used to seek knowledge for the sake of bettering humanity. Now, they seek knowledge for personal ambition and power. | |
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This Is Unforgivable! | |
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This Is Unforgivable!: Will, Christina and Tris treat Al this way after he assists Peter and Drew in attempting to kill Tris. They become more ambivalent after Al kills himself but never speak of it again. | |
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Blue Is Calm | |
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Blue Is Calm: The Erudite faction is associated with the colour blue and each member must wear at least one article of blue clothing per day, as it is a "calming color that helps stimulate the brain". | |
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Government Conspiracy | |
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Finally, in Allegiant, she learns that Chicago is not the entire world; there's much, much more beyond that. She also learns why the mindset of the Chicago population is engineered to think that they are isolated from the outside world: they're being used in an experimental project sanctioned by the US government. | |
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Friendship-Straining Competition | |
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Friendship-Straining Competition: Despite Tris making friends with Al during training in Divergent, her skill in training made her a threat, and he was at the bottom of the list. The need to rise in the ranks led him to join Peter in attempting to murder her, along with kidnapping and molesting her. When he tried to apologize, she furiously refused to accept it. His guilt for hurting her over the competition led him to commit suicide, and led her to question if her refusal to forgive him was right. | |
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Pretend to Be Brainwashed | |
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Pretend to Be Brainwashed: Comes up in Divergent, where the Dauntless faction is mind-controlled into attacking Abnegation. The Divergent are resistant to this; Tris and Four blend in while another Divergent, not knowing what is going on, is shot dead. | |
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Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions | |
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Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: In Divergent, it is implied that the Abnegation faction, a faction of society that lives much like the Amish, is the only section of society that still believes in God. However, Insurgent shows that the Amity Faction practices some sort of naturalistic religion. | |
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Brought Down to Normal | |
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Brought Down to Normal: Inverted. Allegiant reveals that the Chicago walled community was an experiment to restore humanity back to normal after years of selective breeding caused what they considered to be "damaged genes" in humans, making them prone to certain vices and violence. | |
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The Power of Love | |
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The Power of Love: In Divergent, Tobias, under Jeanine's mind-control, becomes horribly close to shooting Tris, but the sound of Tris's voice makes him snap out of it. | |
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Meaningful Echo: In Divergent, Tobias is mindcontrolled into attacking Tris. She thinks that her "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight is failing, and prepares herself to die. Then in Allegiant, Tris prepares for her real Heroic Sacrifice. | |
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Babies Ever After: In We Can Be Mended, Zeke and Shauna are expecting a child. Tobias and Christina fight over who get to name it, but no one end up getting the right. | |
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You Wouldn't Shoot Me | |
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You Wouldn't Shoot Me: In Divergent, Tris shoots both Peter and Eric, but they had doubted she'd do it since she's a Stiff. Both end in some non-fatal injury. | |
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Candor typically dresses in black and white, reflecting their mindset. | |
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Rejected Apology: Al is bawling when he attempts to apologize to Tris for assisting in an attempt on her life, after she ranked first. She says that if he ever comes near her again, she'll kill him. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Four gives a brutal but effective one to Peter when the latter complains about the unfairness of the fear trials, saying that of course it's unfair given Peter tried to murder Tris the night before and everyone knows that Peter is a coward. | |
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Shameful Strip | |
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Shameful Strip: In Divergent, after showering, Tris is trying to get dressed, but notices that she's beginning to develop muscles she never had before, and her clothes no longer fit. So she walks back to the dormitory from the showers wearing a Modesty Towel but crosses path with her bullies along the way, Peter, Molly, and Drew, who immediately begin taunting her. Peter manages to snag away her towel, leaving her naked and humiliated and she's forced to go streaking the rest of the way while they laugh at her. | |
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Second Love | |
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Second Love: We Can Be Mended reveals that Tobias and Christina eventually become this to each other, following the deaths of Tris and Will. | |
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Badass Creed | |
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Badass Creed: The Dauntless manifesto from the extra materials. | |
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Commonality Connection | |
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Commonality Connection: In Allegiant, Christina and Uriah become very close because both of them lost someone important to them. | |
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Ancient Conspiracy | |
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Ancient Conspiracy: The Bureau, responsible for the constructed, faction-based community in Chicago for at least eight generations. | |
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Two-Part Trilogy | |
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Two-Part Trilogy: A lot of readers feel the trilogy is one of these; the difference being that it's the third book, Allegiant, that seems to feel out of sync with the other two, to its discredit —- alternating between two narrators where the first two books were told entirely in Tris's voice, (Tobias actually concludes the narrative after Tris' death) sacrificing the narrative energy of the first two books for a lot of exposition which shouldn't really be necessary at that point. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: Peter in Divergent receives a whopping heapful of it. After spending most of the book bullying others, sabotaging or attempting to murder anyone who does better than him in the trials, he ends up injured courtesy of Tris, begging for his life and forced to assist in undoing the brainwashing simulation knowing that everyone can see him for what he really is. | |
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Military Coup | |
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Military Coup: In Insurgent, Evelyn ensures that the Factionless are armed and leads an insurrection, becoming the de facto new leader of the Chicago walled community. | |
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Big Bad | |
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It's revealed that Jeanine Matthews, the Big Bad of the first two books, obtained the serums used for execution and mind controlling Dauntless members from the Bureau of Genetic Welfare, the mastermind behind the experiment in Chicago and several other metropolitan cities for more than eight generations. | |
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Mass "Oh, Crap!" | |
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The Dauntless army as a whole reacts this way along with Mass "Oh, Crap!" when Tobias ends the simulation brainwashing them as a mindless army, forcing them to remember the senseless murder they've just committed. | |
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Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul | |
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Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: In Insurgent, we learn that one of the reasons members of the Amity faction stay so calm and happy is regular doses of a calming drug. After getting into a fight with Peter in Amity, Tris is given the drug, but because of her slight build, it has a stronger effect, temporarily blissing her out. Also, the entire Amity compound's food supply (specifically the bread) is infused with small amounts of it. | |
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Seven Deadly Sins | |
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Seven Deadly Sins: Present within the factions: Erudite represent Greed in their search for knowledge and their eventual seizing of power. Dauntless represent Lust in the form of adrenaline. They're reckless and will do anything for a high. Candor represent Wrath in the form of Brutal Honesty — telling the truth without regard for anyone's feelings. Amity represent Sloth as they try to stay neutral during the conflict, despite innocent people dying all around them. Abnegation represent Pride as they try to live without sin, which is itself a form of pride. Marcus Eaton in particular is very concerned with his public image. Factionless represent Envy as they resent being forced to live on the streets. The Bureau represent Gluttony as the Faction system causes a huge waste of human life in their experiment to find 'Pure' beings. | |
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Atrocious Alias | |
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Atrocious Alias: Molly nicknames herself "The Tank." | |
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Greater-Scope Villain | |
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Greater-Scope Villain: It's revealed that Jeanine Matthews, the Big Bad of the first two books, obtained the serums used for execution and mind controlling Dauntless members from the Bureau of Genetic Welfare, the mastermind behind the experiment in Chicago and several other metropolitan cities for more than eight generations. It's also revealed that the experiment was done to produce genetically pure children from the genetically damaged, who were the subjects of an earlier experiment to "correct" human genes of their "imperfections". So, ultimately, whoever had the insane idea to do the "correction" in the first place is this. | |
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I Let Gwen Stacy Die | |
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I Let Gwen Stacy Die: After Tris shoots a brainwashed Will to defend herself in Divergent, she angsts about his death for the rest of the series after it happens, and never fully forgives herself. Uriah slips into a coma, brain damaged beyond hope after being caught in the rebellion attack in Allegiant. Four blames himself, since he participated in the attack, and like Tris with Will he never really lets go of his guilt. | |
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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Tris reacts this way in Divergent after Al dies from suicide as a result of her refusing to forgive him, though she eventually learns to live with the fact that she's not a forgiving person, and no one blames her given Al assisted in an attempt on her life and molestation. The Dauntless army as a whole reacts this way along with Mass "Oh, Crap!" when Tobias ends the simulation brainwashing them as a mindless army, forcing them to remember the senseless murder they've just committed. | |
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Hooked Up Afterwards | |
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Hooked Up Afterwards: We Can Be Mended details how Tobias and Christina move on from their sorrows of losing Tris and Will, respectively, and end up becoming a couple. It's also mentioned that Cara and Matthew hooked up and are planning to marry. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: Edward is on the receiving end of one via a butter knife because he ended up first on the initiate ranking. Peter does not like being in second place. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: Tris and Four — Beatrice and Tobias are their real names, respectively. Nita from Allegiant. Her full name is Juanita. | |
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame | |
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: When Tris loses control and beats Molly bloody during their fight during testing, Eric congratulates her. She decides that she doesn't want to be congratulated for something like that by someone like him. | |
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Parting-Words Regret | |
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Parting-Words Regret: The last thing that Tris says to Al is that if he comes near her again, she'll kill him. He dies from suicide the evening after, and Tris wonders if she was too hard on him. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The names of the first two books end in 'gent'. Subverted by the last book which ends in 'giant', but is pronounced the same way. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
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Fate Worse than Death: Becoming factionless, who live in poverty and are ostracized, is considered this by most of the characters. Subverted in Insurgent, when Tris gets to interact with them. | |
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False Utopia | |
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False Utopia: Meta-example; Veronica Roth has stated that she only realized after she had started writing that Divergent was her own personal utopia, and then later realized that her "utopia" was a horrible place to live. | |
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Color-Coded Castes | |
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Color-Coded Castes: It's very easy to tell who belongs to what faction based on their attire: Candor typically dresses in black and white, reflecting their mindset. Abnegation dresses in grey, rag-like clothing, reflecting their humility and putting others before themselves. Amity dresses in bright colors, usually yellows and reds, reflecting their laid-back, free-spirited nature. Dauntless members can usually be spotted sporting black combat uniforms. Erudite dresses in blue formal attire befitting their intellectual nature. As expected, the Factionless subvert this trope; they dress in whatever they can get their hands on, and it's exactly this lack of uniformity that makes them so easy to tell apart from those in a Faction. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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Subverted when Al commits suicide following Tris's Rejected Apology. Four doesn't call Tris out for that, since her anger is reasonable given the circumstances, though he does ask if her anger at Al is useful after his death but for sticking out like a sore thumb and risking trouble. | |
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Cataclysm Backstory | |
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Cataclysm Backstory: Of the "no one knows" variety, something has caused Chicago to isolate itself from the rest of the world, turning the society into the five virtue-based factions in the story. | |
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Neck Lift | |
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Neck Lift: When Four interrupts Peter, Drew, and Al's attack on Tris Peter lifts Tris over The Chasm like this. | |
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Forgiven, but Not Forgotten | |
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Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: Tris in Divergent takes a while to forgive Christina and Will for not protecting her when Peter, Drew and Al kidnapped her, molested her, and tried to throw her down a chasm. By the time she does, she realizes that she can't trust anyone in the Divergent army except for Four. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Jeanine is convinced that Divergents threaten society. As it turns out, Divergents were the point of this particular society's creation in the first place. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: In Allegiant, just when it looks like Tris is going to shrug off the death serum and survive, David fatally shoots her. She still manages to get her Heroic Sacrifice off, though. | |
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Cliffhanger | |
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Cliffhanger: Insurgent ends with an epic one, with the revelation that Chicago was walled off as part of an experiment to restore humanity to a war-torn world, and that once there are enough Divergent people among them then they should open the gates and reenter the wider world. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Divergent: Subverted when Al commits suicide following Tris's Rejected Apology. Four doesn't call Tris out for that, since her anger is reasonable given the circumstances, though he does ask if her anger at Al is useful after his death but for sticking out like a sore thumb and risking trouble. Tris's dad calls her out for shooting Peter in the arm. Though she points out that, despite being Dauntless, he is cowardly and borderline psychopathic and lives depended on it. She knows he will give in quickly once he is in pain. In Insurgent, Tobias calls out Tris multiple times of being suicidal. In return, Tris calls out Tobias for being a hypocrite. He tells her that she's strong enough to take her scolding, but still tries to "protect" her. He insists she be open and honest with him, while still insisting on the right to keep his own secrets. He says he trusts her perceptiveness, but refuses to listen to her warnings about people repeatedly. Thankfully, the both of them get better. Eventually. | |
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Grouped for Your Convenience | |
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Grouped for Your Convenience: Beatrice Prior's society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue. When the factions were formed, however, each gained a negative and a positive trait. The factions are: Abnegation, Erudite, Dauntless, Amity, and Candor. On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives after taking an aptitude test. | |
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Tears of Remorse | |
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Tears of Remorse: In Divergent, after Al almost kills Tris, she next sees him bawling his eyes out with regret. | |
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The Evils of Free Will | |
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The Evils of Free Will: In this dystopia, teens are forced to take an aptitude test that matches them with a "faction": Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless, or Erudite. The faction they choose, however, is where they end up for the rest of their lives. If they choose no faction, then they become factionless and are forced to be homeless. Also, if their test results do not match with any particular faction, then they are seen as Divergent, meaning they don’t necessarily conform to the thought patterns of their respective factions and therefore can't be trusted. There are shades of this in Abnegation. Basically, any part of free will that serves the self is prohibited. This is also in Amity, due to "happiness serum" being put in bread and given to everyone without them noticing. Anyone who acts negatively will be taken to a room and given some directly. | |
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Urban Segregation | |
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Urban Segregation: Chicago is split up in five factions and five corresponding living areas — with the slums left for the Factionless. | |
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Mind-Control Device | |
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Mind-Control Device: The "tracking" chips placed in every Dauntless member controls them and ultimately leads to the Dauntless members, aside from Divergents, being controlled into attacking Abnegation. | |
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Family-Friendly Firearms | |
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Family-Friendly Firearms: Invoked and lampshaded. When war breaks out, the Amity sector is not given real guns, but stun guns that can just take people down. | |
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Only a Flesh Wound | |
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In Divergent, Tris shoots both Peter and Eric, but they had doubted she'd do it since she's a Stiff. Both end in some non-fatal injury. | |
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Meaningful Rename | |
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Meaningful Rename: This is significant as characters changed their names to abandon their old faction identity: The main character Beatrice becomes known as 'Tris' instead of Beatrice. While this is a nickname, it's meaningful because it is significant in the character adopting a Dauntless rather than Abnegation identity. Four decided to call himself 'Four' because he only has four fears in the fear landscape. His original name was Tobias, but as he was abused by his father that's also one reason he wanted to abandon that identity. The prequel novella shows that the nickname was given to him by his Dauntless mentor — and that his using it is a mark of accepting kindness from someone else. | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia: The serum associated with the Abnegation can erase memories. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: In Divergent, Tris's mother shows up to save her from being executed. In Insurgent, Tobias leads a counter attack just as Tris is rebelling against her captors. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Peter. He goes out of his way to make Tris's life miserable, from throwing petty insults to outright sexually assaulting her and trying to kill her. Molly. To get back at Tris for wounding her pride, she feeds lies to the Erudite about Tris's father and Abnegation. Drew is constantly backing up Peter and even helps in his plan to throw Tris into The Chasm | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Easily Forgiven: Tris's parents forgive her for going into the Dauntless regime, especially when her father has to go into hiding with the Abnegation. | |
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Creepy Crows | |
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Creepy Crows: As Tris goes into a simulation designed to emulate her fears she is attacked by a large number of crows. These turn out to be representative of something else as Four points out that she isn't really afraid of crows. | |
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Vigilante Execution | |
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Vigilante Execution: In Insurgent, the Candor Court decided to spare Eric's life, but Dauntless decides, on its own, to kill him for his crimes, and the execution is performed by them. So technically, it may count as a subversion since Eric was a Dauntless. | |
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Science Is Bad | |
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Science Is Bad: In the first two books of the series, most of the bad guys come from the Erudite faction, the faction for scientists and knowledge-seekers. Many of the Erudite characters that we see are villainous even Caleb turns out to be a traitor. Most of the bad things that happen in Divergent and Insurgent (e.g. the Abnegation Genocide) are a result of the devious scheming of the Erudite leadership, and it's implied they have a hand in corrupting members from other factions to their cause. Even the author admits her book's anti-intellectual slant, though she has rightly pointed out that her portrayal of the Erudite became more nuanced, and even positive as the series went on. | |
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