He intentionally fails during the final interview for the job in favor of becoming instructor for the new initiates. So, so wrong. The initiation is competitive, but nowhere near as dangerous as it will be when Tris joins two years from now.When he's not smashing faces, Four is getting a tattoo of flames on his ribcage and defying his fear simulation in a way that his trainer, Amar, has never seen before. His first task has him forge a Dauntless tattoo. She may be homeless, but at least she's the leader of the homeless. Four is Evelyn Eaton's child, but she's been dead for years, right? Amar tells him that he also passed his test like Four, warning the latter not to do the test with that method again. Seeing another option, he looks to Tris for assistance. But someone else wonders if Four is Divergent: We move on to "The Son." Divergent is the debut novel of American novelist Veronica Roth, published by Harper Collins Children's Books in 2011.
She puts up the defensive, but when Four interjects with "You look good, Tris" while touching her, she laughs and says that he should do that while sober, obviously embarrassed. During his aptitude tests he got an Abnegation result, but chose Dauntless as his faction at the Choosing Ceremony to esc… Evelyn supposedly died when Tobias was young, leaving Tobias alone with Marcus. The protagonist and narrator is a sixteen-year-old girl from Abnegation named Beatrice Prior. His father was said to have noticed his Divergence at a young age and became observant of him since then.
Tobias returns to his home-not-so-sweet-home where he gets smacked around by his abusive father and realizes that he needs to get the heck out of Dodge Abnegation. While he is talking with Tris she mentions that he should not be near the Pit while being drunk and Four winks and says he would do what she said. he realizes that she loves The novel is the first of the Divergent trilogy, a series of young adult dystopian novels set in a Divergent Universe. Four realizes that he will have to betray his new faction to protect his old faction: by attempting to warn his father, Marcus, about the upcoming invasion, which the latter quickly brushes off. Four isn't anyone's pawn! The third story titled The Initiate, the fourth story The Son and the fifth and final story The Traitor were released on July 8, 2014. His next task is to fight his archrival, Eric, whom he manages to defeat. For the fourth film in the Please help improve the article by merging similar sections and removing unneeded subheaders. She wants Four to join her, but he says, She tells him that Max and Jeanine are working together to find a new Dauntless leader, one they can control for their own nefarious means (like monitoring people to see if they're Divergent and taking Pop-Tarts out of all the vending machines). Divergent is a novel by Veronica Roth that was first published in 2001. Close Search "Talking about her decision to write from the perspective of In July 2014, Roth revealed that she initially wrote Tobias "Four" Eaton goes through his Dauntless initiation tests. Throughout the story, Four begins to get closer with Tris, helped by his admiration of her bravery and selflessness.
Four then thinks that being close with Tris helps him better to escape the harsh reality than alcohol. Wrong. He also eventually allows her to know more about him by going through his fear landscape together. As he begins bonding with his Dauntless-born fellow initiates, In Four's next test, he faces his fears again, but manages to recognize that it is artificial and escapes from it in an unorthodox manner. The second story, The Transfer, was released on September 3, 2013. At the Choosing Ceremony, Tobias chooses Dauntless, which is surprising to no one who read In "The Initiate," Four fights his way to the top of the initiate rankings making friends (Shauna, Zeke) and enemies (Eric) along the way. Whose child is this? He's a king—or at least a rook—so he tells Max he doesn't want to be a leader, and Max chooses Eric instead. Four is made up of four – count 'em—four (4) long-ish short stories set in the Divergent world.Three take place Before Divergent (BD), one takes place during Divergent (DD), and then there are three short scenes featuring interactions between Tris and Four, but told from Four's POV.
Simultaneou… Divergent is set in the future, in a dystopian version of Chicago that has been divided into five factions: Abnegation, Candor, Amity, Dauntless, and Erudite. Initiation day comes, and Tris goes through her final assessment, a simulation containing each one of her fears that she must conquer, one after another. Summaries. She's extremely successful and ranks first, becoming an official member of Dauntless. "Divergent 4" redirects here. By entering your email address you agree to receive emails from Shmoop and verify that you are over the age of 13. But the closer Four gets to Tris (smooch alert!) Tobias was born to Marcus and Evelyn Eaton in the Abnegation faction. Four Summary. Tattooed Tori tells Tobias that the test tells them… Abnegation.
He becomes protective of her, growing concerned when he learns that she is also a Divergent, and also saves her from an attack by her desperate fellow initiates. This will turn out to be a mistake.Finally, we have "The Traitor." The two are forced to do the test by Erudite leader, The recently initiated Dauntless member, Tobias "Four" Eaton, is offered a chance to be promoted to the position of leader by Four eavesdrops on Max's conversation with Jeanine which confirms his suspicion that Jeanine intends to use whomever is selected to be leader as a pawn.
For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. Four then decides to keep contact with his mother by delivering her a letter through an aide: the factionless man whom he met after his Aptitude Test several weeks before. According to Roth, these stories serve as a prequel to the Divergent trilogy. Together, they form a kind of Tobias-centered Divergent prequel, though there is some overlap. Tobias became a victim to his father's cruelty. Four gets a mysterious message from his mother, who is still alive and factionless.
When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late. Summary Read a Plot Overview of the entire book or a chapter by chapter Summary and Analysis.