"Divergent"
This brave heroine discovers she doesn’t fit into just one faction.
Who is Tris (Beatrice Prior)?
He is Tris’s tough yet supportive instructor in Dauntless, known for his four fears.
Who is Four (Tobias Eaton)?
This 12-year-old boy is chosen for the most honored job in the community.
Who is Jonas?
This wise man holds all the community’s memories and trains Jonas.
Who is The Giver?
This determined girl works as a Messenger and is one of the first to suspect Ember is in danger.
Who is Lina Mayfleet?
This boy is assigned Pipeworks laborer and discovers the mysterious instructions with Lina.
Who is Doon Harrow?
This character is Tris’s brother, who transfers into Erudite.
Who is Caleb?
This faction values bravery above all and becomes Tris’s chosen home.
What is Dauntless?
This baby, who struggles to sleep through the night, becomes deeply connected to Jonas.
Who is Gabriel?
This ceremony is where all the new Twelves are assigned their lifelong jobs.
What is the Ceremony of Twelve?
This corrupt leader hoards food and supplies while claiming to protect the city.
Who is Mayor Cole?
This is the underground city where people depend on electric lamps because no natural light exists.
What is Ember?
This is the faction Tris is born into, known for wearing gray and living selflessly.
What is Abnegation?
This type of test should determine a person’s faction, but Tris’s results don’t point to just one.
What is the aptitude test?
This physical feature sets Jonas apart from his friends and many others in the Community?
What are pale eyes?
This object Jonas first starts to “see beyond” when he notices it change.
What is an apple?
This crucial source of energy begins to fail, causing blackouts that scare the citizens.
What is the generator?
These small pieces of paper, chewed by a baby, turn out to be the instructions for saving the city.
What are the torn Instructions for Egress (the escape directions)?
This secret about Tris must be kept hidden because it makes her a danger to the faction system.
What is being Divergent?
This powerful faction is responsible for controlling the simulation that attacks Abnegation.
What is Erudite?
This shocking truth Jonas learns about Gabriel and other infants makes him run away from the community.
What is the truth about release (that it is killing)?
This painful memory is one of the first times Jonas truly understands the meaning of fear.
What is the memory of war?
This young child must be carried during the escape from Ember, making the journey more difficult for Lina and Doon.
Who is Poppy?
This job does Lina have that allows her to travel the streets and notice problems before anyone else.
What is Messenger?
What's the significance of the different colors of the Faction uniforms?
What is to help to visually enforce the faction system and social order of their society.
This idea is reinforced by Tris’s training experiences: courage isn’t the absence of fear, but learning to do this anyway.
What is overcoming fear / acting in spite of fear?
This assignment is given to Jonas's friend, Fiona.
What is Caretaker of the Old?
This rule-breaking act shows Jonas’s first step toward individuality and freedom.
What is leaving the community with Gabriel?
This amazing sight awaits Lina and Doon when they finally escape and reach the world above.
What is the sunrise / natural daylight?
This underground system Doon works in becomes the main area where clues about escaping are found.
What is the Pipeworks?
This dangerous event tests Tris and her friends with simulations that bring out their deepest fears.
What is the Dauntless initiation/fear simulations?
This major theme is shown when Tris must choose between loyalty to her family and her desire to forge her own path.
What is identity or choosing who you are?
This mode of transportation Jonas uses to leave the Community at the end of the book.
What is a bicycle (or sled)?
This major idea is shown when Jonas chooses to leave the community to save Gabriel and find freedom.
What is individuality or freedom of choice?
This dangerous situation occurs when the generator finally fails, showing how dependent Ember is on electricity.
What is the city-wide blackout?
This theme is shown through Lina and Doon’s risk-taking and belief that Ember can be saved.
What is never giving up or keeping hope alive?