Divergent Chapter 17 Quotes
Divergent Chapter 17 Quotes
How we cite the quotes:
(Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote 1
"When can I go again?" I say. My smile stretches wide enough to show teeth, and when they laugh, I laugh. I think of climbing the stairs with the Abnegation, our feet finding the same rhythm, all of us the same. This isn't like that. We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one. (17.104)
Of course, Abnegation doesn't go zip lining around the city, even if it is a fast way to travel. But what's interesting to us about this event isn't the difference in factions' ideas of fun activities. (Candor probably plays truth or dare but always picks truth.) What interests us is that Tris can a sense of community and togetherness in both actions. So some values are shared from faction to faction.
Quote 2
Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes. (17.3)
After spending several chapters defying her family and their influence on her, here Tris is, after doing something her mother would do because it makes her feel better. This is after Edward was stabbed in the eye, so it makes sense that she would want to return to the non-stabby ways of her family.