Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Grew up… in what used to be Chicago. Now the lake is a swamp, and the city has been broken into separate factions who espouse different guiding principles. Beatrice grew up in Abnegation, which focuses on serving others, but she never felt she fit in.
Living… in a new faction— Dauntless. Dauntless members live without fear and are supposed to embody braveness. They’re the only ones who ride the elevated trains, and they guard the city from an unspecified threat. Upon entering the faction, Beatrice changed her name to Tris.
Profession… Dauntless member-in-training. If she doesn’t make it through training, she’ll be factionless— forced to the edges of society and fit for only menial labor. Unfortunately, there are more initiates than there are spaces for full-fledged members in her new faction. As a result, Tris has to fight the other initiates and overcome her own fears to succeed.
Interests… learning how to blend in with Dauntless. Lots of it comes easily. Tris loves the whacky Dauntless stunts– like jumping off moving trains and leaping off buildings. And true to faction tradition, she’s also collecting a number of tattoos.
Relationship Status… single, for now. Ever since Tris arrived, she’s been drawn to one of her Dauntless mentors, a mysterious man named Four. Four also seems interested, but she's currently too busy trying to survive.
Challenge… surviving Dauntless training and concealing the fact that she’s a Divergent. When Tris was tested to determine which faction she belonged to, the results were inconclusive. She was warned never to tell anyone about it. But something is brewing, and it might just force her to discover why being Divergent is so dangerous.
Personality… brave and intelligent. Coming from Abnegation, Tris combines the elements of her old faction and her new one. She’s determined to succeed, but she still cares about the people around her and will stand up for them. Tris might be occasionally insecure about where she belongs, but she's willing to do anything for her future. As she puts it, “People tend to overestimate my character. They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.”
Get to Know her in...
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In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.
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Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
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Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.
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One choice will define you. What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers and film fans in Divergent and Insurgent.
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In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). 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. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret—one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves. Or it might destroy her.
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One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.
