How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
One day I saw a grown man beating up one of the kids in the fringe, and I hit him over the head with a plank to get him to stop and he died, right there in the street. (19.63)
Tris's mom shows a distaste for injustice. She actually gets rewarded for this act: she's taken off the streets and into the Bureau, and she's given a new home. Perhaps her observers realize that someone with damaged genes wouldn't have had the conscience to do what she did… although would someone with a conscience actually kill a man? Is her guilt a sign of conscience?
Quote #5
Today I volunteered to go inside the city. David said the Divergent are dying and someone has to stop it. (21.17)
Here we see the progression of Tris's mom's views toward injustice. As a teenager, she was willing to kill someone else to save one person. Now it seems she's willing to give her life to save many. (And from reading Divergent, we know how that ends…) What is the relationship between injustice and sacrifice in this novel? Why does Tris's mom think she needs to sacrifice herself?
Quote #6
"[Jeanine] was testing the fear-inducing serum […] The factionless man was never quite right again. And that was the last straw for your father." (22.38)
Well, here's something that Tris's parents share in common: a hatred of seeing other people getting treated badly by people from a higher social class than they are. This is definitely something they passed on to their daughter, either through their genes or through the way they brought her up.