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In Insurgent Tris and Tobias are challenged to face the difficulties of being divergent. Tris has to deal with her mother and father’s death. Tobias has to deal with his father, Marcus being with him after he abused him. Tris also has to deal with the fact that she killed one of her best friends, Will and her best friends, Christina’s boyfriend.

In “Divergent” the first book of the trilogy Tris’s mother dies saving her from Jeanine Mathews. Her father also dies trying to shut down the simulation. She killed her best friend Will. Tris is devastated. They first need to hide because Erudite is searching for them. They end up hiding in the Amity compound.

Tris starts to feel daring again, she wants to track down Marcus; Tobias’s Father to find out what he is hiding. Marcus is trying to steal the data from the simulations that Jeanine is trying to program to work on divergent people. At the same time Peter is trying to steal the data from the first simulation that Tris has. She ends up fighting him to keep the data and breaks the rules for the Amity compound. Amity injects Tris with peace serum.

Tris, Tobias, Caleb, and Marcus get into a huge fight with dauntless soldiers fighting for Erudite. They get back on the train and go into the city to the factionless safe house. There, Tris finds out Tobias’s mother, Evelyn is still alive and has her own plans to take over the city. To find out what is going on Tris goes to the Candor headquarters and they inject her with a truth serum. She ends up telling Christina that she killed Will during the simulation. The Candor compound ends up getting attacks by a bunch or dauntless traitors. Tris runs in to Eric and stabs him in the gut.

One night Tobias and Tris go and talk to Evelyn about her plan. She says that there is a dead end, but Tobias ignores her. Jeanine gives them an ultimatum. Every month they have to send a divergent in or she kills an innocent person. Tris decides to turn herself in without

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