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Preceded by

Insurgent
Veronica Roth
: Science
Harper Collins
2012
: Divergent

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to Divergent (2011) and is followed by the third and final book of the

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series, Allegiant (2013).

Summary
Starting where the last book left off, Tris, Four, Caleb, Peter, and Marcus travel to Amity,
where several surviving Abnegation are settled in. They are welcomed and treated with
kindness.
Tris spies on Johanna, the Amity spokesperson, and Marcus. Marcus tells Johanna the
Abnegation leaders had information they were willing to risk their lives for, but is unwilling to
trust Johanna with it. Tris approaches Marcus about the information, but he refuses to
cooperate with her, too.

Tris sees Erudite cars coming toward the Amity compound. They need to run. She crushes
the drive with the simulation data and they flee, but not before many of the Abnegation are
killed, and she accidentally saves Peters life.
They find the factionless, where a surprised Tris discovers Tobias mother, Evelyn, is not
only alive, but the leader of the factionless. During the night, Tris overhears Tobias and
Evelyn, discussing the factionless and their high numbers of Divergent and their desire to
usurp the Erudite to instate a factionless government. Evelyn tries to convince Tobias to join
them.
They and the Dauntless then go to Candor headquarters, where Tris and Tobias are both
placed under the truth serum. Tris admits she killed Will, a burden finally released. But it
causes a giant rift in her friendship with Christina. Then the traitor Dauntless attack the
Candor headquarters, shooting almost everyone with a simulation inducing serum. Which
can only mean one thing: Jeanine finally developed a long term transmitttor.
Jack, the Candor leader, is given an ultimatum by Jeanine. He can keep his faction free if he
gives up the Divergent. Instead of complying, Tris and Tobias and the rest of the Dauntless

execute Eric, who was caught during the attack, and leave Candor to take back their own
headquarters.
Shortly thereafter, Tris is awakened in the night to find three Dauntless under simulation on
the roof, ready to jump. They are able to save two. More will die unless one Divergent
surrenders to the Erudite.
Tris conscience forces her to sneak away during the night and surrender herself. Jeanine
does tests on Tris to figure out what makes her Divergent and how to better develop a
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serum to control other Divergent. To her horror, Tris discovers Tobias has also surrendered
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himself. And after being tortured, she sees her brother. Caleb has betrayed her to Jeanine.
Tris execution day arrives. Peter injects her with the serum, but instead of dying she only is
paralyzed. Peter wheels her body into Tobias chamber, where she comes to. Peter not only
saves her life but helps them break out of Erudite headquarters. He had to repay Tris for
saving his life earlier.
They escape to the Abnegation section, where the Dauntless and factionless have joined
forces. They decide to attack the Erudite and destroy all their data. Marcus approaches Tris
and pleads for her help. If all the Erudite data is destroyed, so is the information the
Abnegation leaders died for and Jeanine so desperately wants to keep from the public.
Tris lies to Tobias and, while everyone else is attacking the Erudite, helps Marcus break into
Erudite headquarters and rushes up to Jeanines secret lab. But they are too late. Tori is
already there and kills Jeanine, ending the battle.
When everyone is gathered together, Evelyn usurps Dauntless control. But Tobias has
found the information and plays it for everyone to see: Those inside the fence were placed
there as a cure against the evils of human nature. A clean slate and a hope. Once there are
abundant Divergent, those with flexible minds, the fence may be unlocked and everyone
may emerge.

Moral Value:

The "moral center" of this book is that people shouldn't be divided into sections by
characteristics or traits. People should be able to be together as one group. In Divergent
and Insurgent, Veronica Roth talks about a dystopian society that is divided into factions
based on characteristics. She tells a story about a girl, Tris, describing how and why the
idea of division of people is a poor idea.
The idea of having factions were to allow people with the same characteristics live together.
The people would have basically the same idea of how to deal with things. But, it seems
that even with the division, factions still have conflicts. This shows that the division of people
doesn't work, and people should work together instead of separating.
Veronica Roth's main message is to stay together even with conflicts.