
Divergent
Veronica Roth (2011)
“In a world divided by personality, a girl who fits nowhere must choose who she will become — and that choice will start a revolution.”
Short Summary
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice 'Tris' Prior lives in Abnegation, the selfless faction, but has never felt like she belongs. At the Choosing Ceremony she shocks everyone by transferring to Dauntless, the brave. Through brutal initiation, she falls in love with her instructor Four, discovers she is Divergent — able to think across multiple factions — and uncovers a plot by Erudite to use a mind-control serum to massacre Abnegation and seize control of the government. The attack kills her parents and forces Tris to shoot her friend Will to survive. The novel ends with Tris and Four on a train fleeing the ruin of the only world they've known.
Detailed Summary
The story is set in a dystopian Chicago where society has reorganized itself into five factions, each devoted to a single virtue as the solution to the wars that nearly destroyed humanity. Abnegation values selflessness and runs the government. Erudite values intelligence and runs the schools. Daunt...