Divergent

by Veronica Roth

In a future Chicago divided into five factions based on virtues — Abnegation (selflessness), Dauntless (bravery), Erudite (intelligence), Amity (peace), Candor (honesty) — sixteen-year-old Tris Prior discovers she doesn't fit neatly into any faction. As she navigates Dauntless initiation, she uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to destroy her world.

37 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Beatrice "Tris" Prior — An Abnegation girl who chooses Dauntless at the Choosing Ceremony — and discovers her aptitude for multiple factions makes her the most dangerous kind
• Tobias "Four" Eaton — A Dauntless prodigy with only four fears in his landscape — and a past in Abnegation he left behind to escape his father's fists, not because he stopp
• Caleb Prior — Tris's brother who chose Erudite at the Choosing Ceremony — and spent the rest of the trilogy proving that intelligence without moral courage is just
• Jeanine Matthews — The leader of Erudite who believes intelligence is the only virtue worth preserving — and will commit genocide to prove it, all while explaining calml
• Eric — A Dauntless leader who transferred from Erudite — and remade Dauntless initiation into a crucible of cruelty, mistaking brutality for bravery.
• Peter Hayes — A Candor transfer whose honesty manifests as cruelty — he'll tell you exactly how much contempt he has for you, and then stab you in the back anyway.
• Christina — A Candor transfer who becomes Tris's closest friend in Dauntless — blunt, warm, fiercely loyal, and the first person to treat Tris like a normal girl
• Will — An Erudite transfer with a kind heart and a sharp mind — killed under simulation control during the attack on Abnegation, his death the wound that nev
• Al — A gentle Candor boy who came to Dauntless hoping to find courage — and instead found the precise shape of his own cowardice when fear made him betray
• Marcus Eaton — Abnegation's most respected leader and the city council's moral center — who goes home every night and beats his son with a belt, proving that a facti
• Natalie Prior — Tris's mother — quiet, dutiful Abnegation wife on the surface, but born Dauntless and placed in Abnegation by the Bureau to protect Divergent individu
• Andrew Prior — Tris's father — an Abnegation council member who transferred from Erudite because he believed in service over intellect, and dies proving it during th
• Tori Wu — A Dauntless tattoo artist who administered Tris's aptitude test — and recognized the Divergent result because she'd seen it before, in her own brother
• Evelyn Johnson — The leader of the Factionless — Four's mother, who faked her death to escape Marcus and spent years building an army from the people the faction syste
• Johanna Reyes — The spokesperson for Amity — a woman with a scar across her face and peace in her voice, trying to hold a crumbling world together through diplomacy w
• Jack Kang — The leader of Candor — a man who believes truth is the foundation of civilization and insists on using truth serum interrogations even when the truth
• Uriah Pedrad — A Dauntless-born initiate with an easy grin and reckless courage — one of the few people who welcomed Tris without agenda, and whose death becomes one
• Max — One of Dauntless's senior leaders — the old guard who sold out to Erudite, trading his faction's independence for a seat at Jeanine's table.
• David — The director of the Bureau of Genetic Welfare — the man who designed Chicago's faction experiment, watched it like a terrarium, and will sacrifice the
• Molly Atwood — A Candor transfer built like a battering ram — she fights the way she talks, blunt and hard, and never figured out that strength without direction jus

Locations

• Chicago — A post-apocalyptic walled city divided into five faction territories — the last experiment in whether humanity can be saved by forcing people to choos
• The Hub — The former Willis Tower — now the site of the annual Choosing Ceremony where sixteen-year-olds cut their hands and let their blood fall into the bowl
• Dauntless Compound — An underground fortress built beneath the ruins of Navy Pier — you enter by jumping off a moving train and into a hole in the ground, and it only gets
• The Pit — The heart of Dauntless — a massive underground cavern where the faction eats, shops, socializes, and exists, all of it echoing and chaotic and lit by
• The Chasm — A roaring underground gorge inside the Dauntless compound — beautiful and lethal, where the water drops into darkness and where Al went when he couldn
• Abnegation Sector — A neighborhood of identical grey houses where mirrors are an indulgence and selflessness is performed in every meal served cold so someone else can ea
• Erudite Headquarters — A gleaming campus of glass and steel where knowledge is pursued with religious devotion — and where Jeanine Matthews built the serums that turned an e
• Amity Compound — Orchards and farmland on Chicago's outskirts where peace is the law — enforced, when necessary, by a serum baked into the bread.
• Merciless Mart — Candor's headquarters in the old Merchandise Mart — a massive building where truth is law, lies are punishable, and every dispute ends with someone un
• Factionless Sector — The invisible city within the city — crumbling buildings and abandoned warehouses where everyone the faction system discarded lives, organizes, and wa
• The Fence — The electrified barrier encircling Chicago — Dauntless guards it against threats from outside, never knowing that the real threat is the people on the
• Bureau of Genetic Welfare Compound — The research facility outside the fence where scientists watch Chicago through cameras and debate whether to wipe the population's memory when the exp

Items

• Aptitude Serum — The serum administered before the Choosing Ceremony that places you in a simulation to determine which faction you belong to — unless you're Divergent
• Simulation Serum — The serum that powers Dauntless fear landscapes and — in Jeanine's hands — the mass mind-control attack that turned an entire faction into sleepwalkin
• Truth Serum — Candor's tool of justice — an injected serum that makes lying physically impossible, used in public trials where your darkest secrets become everyone'
• Death Serum — Erudite's most terrible creation — a serum that kills within minutes through simulated death that the brain makes real, unless you're Divergent enough
• Memory Serum — The Bureau's reset button — a serum that erases memory completely, used to wipe populations clean when experiments go wrong and start them over as bla

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