Tris Prior is born into Abnegation, a faction centered around selflessness. When Tris takes her aptitude test she learns that she is Divergent. She has aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless, and Erudite which is very rare among the Divergents. She learns that being Divergent is extremely dangerous, in order to survive she has to hide inside of a faction. Tris feels that she is too selfish for Abnegation, from birth she was taught that Erudite was an awful faction, so leaving her family behind she chooses Dauntless. In Dauntless she meets Tobias Eaton who she has much in common with. Along with new friends and entirely new experiences. She finds herself falling in love and loving her new faction. Soon she discovers that Jeanine Matthews, an Erudite representative is plotting to terminate Abnegation so she can take control of the government. She not only wishes to terminate the Abnegation but the Divergent as well because they threaten the system. Jeanine injects all of the Dauntless with an attack simulation making them totally controllable, and completely unaware. She programs the Dauntless to attack the Abnegation slaughtering their leaders, women, and, children. Because Tris is Divergent she is not affected by Jeanine's simulations. It is now up to her and Tobias to rescue her former faction.
Key POINTS IN THE BOOK
- Tris finding out that she is Divergent
- Tris choosing Dauntless
- Tris jumping off a moving train for the first time and moving Christina
- Tris being the first jumper
- Intiation
- Meeting and falling in love with Four
- Almost being killed by Peter, Drew, and All
- Four beating Drew almost to death for trying to kill Tris and then rescuing her
- Tris placing number one in Dauntless Initiation
- The attack on Abnegation
- Being captured by Jeanine and almost drown
- Being rescued by her mother
- Jeanine injecting Four with a working simulation causing him to almost kill Tris
- Tris making Four aware, and stopping the simualtion
- Tris choosing Dauntless
- Tris jumping off a moving train for the first time and moving Christina
- Tris being the first jumper
- Intiation
- Meeting and falling in love with Four
- Almost being killed by Peter, Drew, and All
- Four beating Drew almost to death for trying to kill Tris and then rescuing her
- Tris placing number one in Dauntless Initiation
- The attack on Abnegation
- Being captured by Jeanine and almost drown
- Being rescued by her mother
- Jeanine injecting Four with a working simulation causing him to almost kill Tris
- Tris making Four aware, and stopping the simualtion