Born in the abnegation faction to andrew and natalie prior, she describes herself as having pale blonde hair, wide grayblue eyes, a long, thin nose and a short and skinny stature. Divergent characters divergent factions book and movie news. The initiation instructor for the dauntless transfer initiates, including tris, who eventually. Triss best friend in dauntless, a bold and funny initiate who transferred from candor. Peter is a bully, eric is kind of a sociopath, but the real big bad in divergent is jeanine. A dauntless leader who transferred from erudite and is now in charge of training dauntless initiates. Beatrice tris, the protagonist is a 16 year old girl with mixed emotions throughout the story. Christina a good friend of triss peter triss arch enemy setting the main setting in divergent is the dauntless headquarters outside of chicago, illinois. Much like the heroine of a jane austen novel, beatrice prior ends up learning a. Beatrice prior is a 16yearold girl who serves as the novels protagonist and. This is a list of major and minor characters in the divergent book trilogy and its subsequent film.
The intelligent, courageous sixteenyearold protagonist. Boastful, intelligent, and cruel, hes willing to do anything to place first in the rankings, including attack fellow trainees. Peter hayes one of the main antagonists of the novel, and a fierce enemy of tris prior. There are many characters in the book, divergent, however, these are the ones that matter the most. Like his younger sister, caleb shocked his family by choosing to transfer to erudite. Ansel elgort plays caleb prior in the 2014 divergent, 2015 the divergent series. Unlike bobbys fate in the book, the girl is spared from erics execution thanks to tris intervention. He leaves abnegation and joins the faction of erudite. Divergent is the debut novel of american novelist veronica roth, published by harper collins childrens books in 2011. At the beginning of the novel, triss family seem like perfect members of the abnegation faction tobias four eaton. He started out in abnegation like she did, but shocked everyone when he decided to go to erudite.
Unable to conform to the humble ideals of abnegation, her home. If you are a fan of ya and dystopian and are one of the rare few like me who havent yet read divergent then i highly recommend the series and urge you to read it. Now she has come to the age where she has to more choose to stay. Much like the heroine of a jane austen novel, beatrice prior ends up learning a lot about herself.
Divergent veronica roth character analysis studypool. Read indepth analyses of the main characters in veronica roths divergent. Divergent takes place in postapocalyptic chicago, and we learn that all of society has been divided into. Divergent is the debut novel of american novelist veronica roth. In divergent, we meet a character, beatrice prior, who does not know where she. Beatrice tris prior is the viewpoint character in divergent and insurgent, and shares the viewpoint character role in allegiant with tobias four eaton. She has lived her whole life with her family in her faction, abnegation, the home of the selfless. The hero of this novel is beatrice prior, who goes by tris once she joins her faction. I am already halfway through the second book insurgent divergent, book 2 which i only started last night after finishing divergent and wow the series impossibly is getting better the more i read. The main three factions that the novel focuses on is dauntless. Peter is a bully, eric is kind of a sociopath, but the real big bad in divergent is.
Beatrice was born and raised in the abnegation faction. Its funny that we dont see a lot of the big bosses in this book. Christina also shares beatrices strong sense of competitiveness. Eric and four are the two main trainers of the dauntless recruits. The dauntless headquarters seems very modern when you read the book it explains it to you as if it were modern. Divergent study guide contains a biography of veronica roth, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. She helps tris relax and open up more than she was able to in abnegation. The novel divergent features a postapocalyptic version of chicago and follows beatrice tris prior as she explores her identity within a society that. The novel is the first of the divergent trilogy, a series of young adult dystopian novels set in a divergent universe. Four helps tris get through her troubles and is a huge part of divergent. A candor transfer and triss main enemy in dauntless. After he beats peter in the stage one rankings, peter stabs him in the eye with a butter knife.