History Literature / Divergent

* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[spoiler: The Bureau, or at least how they ended up. Which is ironic, considering they exist to correct the genetic manipulation done by a previous group of {{EvilutionaryBiologist EvilutionaryBiolosts}}.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Al, after Tris refuses to forgive him.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Peter may be a sociopathic attempted murderer but he will ''not'' leave a debt unpaid, which is why he ends up [[spoiler: saving Tris's life]]

* EvilutionaryBiologist: [[spoiler: The Bureau, or at least how they ended up.]]

* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Edward]] is on the receiving end of one via a butter knife [[spoiler: [[{{DisproportionateRetribution}} because he ended up first on the initiate ranking]].]]

** Also, the entire Amity compound's food supply (specifically the bread) is infused with small amounts of it.

* HufflepuffHouse: From all of the factions, Amity gets the least mentioned in ''Divergent''. None of the transfer to Dauntless are from it, and only one named character is a member of it. They have a slightly more important role in ''Insurgent''.

* InsufferableGenius: Erudite, and their leader, Jeanine.

* LivingLieDetector: Some people from the Candor faction. Tris is worried that Christina, who transferred from Candor, will be able to tell that Tris [[spoiler: killed Christina's boyfriend Will]].

* TookALevelInJerkass: Tris's character development. She begins as a pleasant, timid youth, but as the story goes on she becomes callous and jaded.
** Edward. In Divergent, he seems like a skilled fighter but otherwise average kid. When she runs into him again in Insurgent, he's noticeably darker - to the point that Myra has left him.

* TruthSerums: In ''Insurgent'', [[spoiler:Candor uses truth serum for interrogations.]]

* WorthyOpponent: In Insurgent, Tris might be the enemy, but the Dauntless will still honor her for [[spoiler: walking to her execution.]]

** During the events of ''Insurgent,'' [[spoiler: Tris injures Eric again, this time with a knife.]] This goes on any longer and it's going to enter into RunningGag territory.

* DeathByChildbirth: This is how Tobias' mom and only family member besides [[{{AbusiveParents}} Marcus]] dies, years prior to the beginning of the novel.
** [[spoiler: Not really.]]

** Special mention goes to Peter. He goes out of his way to make Tris's life miserable, from throwing petty insults to outright [[spoiler: sexually harassing her and [[{{DisproportionateRetribution}} trying to]] ''[[{{DisproportionateRetribution}} kill]]'' [[{{DisproportionateRetribution}} her]].]]

* WorkingTitle: "Detergent" was the joke title for Allegiant.

* IdiotBall: Erudite [[spoiler: plans to kill all the Abnegation faction. So who's going to do all the farming? Dauntless?]]

* IdiotBall: Erudite plans to kill all the Abnegation faction. So who's going to do all the farming? Dauntless?

A movie is set to begin filming in April 2013, and is set to star Creator/ShaileneWoodley, [[UnderworldAwakening Theo James]], KateWinslet, [[DieHard Jai]] [[JackReacher Courtney]], [[Film/XMenFirstClass Zoe Kravitz]], Ashley Judd, RayStevenson, [[{{Torchwood}} Mekhi Phifer]] and [[{{Nikita}} Maggie Q]].

* WorkingTitle: "Detergent" was the joke title for Allegiant

** [[spoiler: Sort of. Allegiant reveals The United States still exists, but is a shadow of its former self. Half of the population is dead. The mid west has been used for experiments and its implied that the west coast is either uninhabited or possibly isolated. (its not clear as the fringe groups don't go there because the terrain is too rough to get there.)]]

A movie is set to begin filming in April 2013, and is set to star Creator/ShaileneWoodley, Theo James, KateWinslet, [[DieHard Jai]] [[JackReacher Courtney]], [[Film/XMenFirstClass Zoe Kravitz]], Ashley Judd, RayStevenson, [[{{Torchwood}} Mekhi Phifer]] and [[{{Nikita}} Maggie Q]].

* HeroicSacrifice[=/=][[spoiler:TheHeroDies]]: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Alliegent'' Tris gives her life to stop the "reset" of Chicago by LaserGuidedAmnesia so that Caleb doesn't have to do it.]]

A movie is set to begin filming in April 2013, and is set to star Creator/ShaileneWoodley, Theo James, KateWinslet, [[DieHard Jai]] [[JackReacher Courtney]], [[XMenFirstClass Zoe Kravitz]], Ashley Judd, RayStevenson, [[{{Torchwood}} Mekhi Phifer]] and [[{{Nikita}} Maggie Q]].

* BroughtDownToNormal: Inverted. [[spoiler:Allegiant reveals that the Chicago walled community was an experiment to restore humanity back to normal after years of selective breeding caused what they considered to be "damaged genes" in humans, making them prone to certain vices and violence.]]

* BlatantLies: Peter, whom is from ''Candor'', claims he is not murderous.

''{{Divergent}}'' is a YoungAdult dystopian thriller, the debut novel of Veronica Roth, a young author.

* BlatantLies: Peter, whom is from ''Candor'' claims he is not murderous.