This chapter only had one thing interesting happen in it, but I’ll get to that later. When Tris finds Al sitting in the dormitory they start talking about why Al joined Dauntless.
“I guess it was because… I think it’s important to protect people. To stand up for people. Like you did for me. That’s what Dauntless are supposed to do, right? That’s what courage is. Not…hurting people for no reason.”
I can’t agree more with Al. I would love to know what the old Dauntless was like, before Eric and all the corruption. After they are finished talking, Al makes a move on her, but she rejects his efforts. Poor Al, I feel bad for him. But he doesn’t compare to Four so I understand why Tris didn’t encourage him.
Today we also find out the rankings for stage one of initiation. The bottom two initiates get cut from Dauntless and become factionless. Edward is ranked first, Peter second, Will third, Christina fourth, Molly fifth, Tris sixth, Drew seventh, Al eighth, and Myra ninth. Al is going to be sent home.
That night Edward is stabbed in the eye with a knife. Everyone knows who did it. Peter, because he couldn’t stand not being ranked first. Yet another reason why Peter is a crazy, psychotic, sadistic, jerk! Al is saved because Edward cannot continue with initiation and Myra leaves with him. The initiates have the next day off because of the incident. Tris and her friends start talking at the lunch table and find it ridiculous they can’t tell someone about what happened, because nothing will probably happen. Will brings up a line from the Dauntless manifesto.
‘We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.’ Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them.
I think this is the first time Tris has started to see the corruptness of the factions, or at least Dauntless and Erudite. I wonder how the factions got so corrupt when they started with such good intentions.
Ben Lamb is playing Edward in the movie Divergent.
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