Okay, you may beg to differ here, but this makes us look at Four a little nervously. On the plus side, he does resist his urge to push Tris until she breaks, so, yay. What a gentleman. But his first comment is more than a little creepy. Still, aside from the fact that he himself is a bit scary here, what he teaches Tris about fear is just as important. He's showing her that fear can make her better, more alive in some ways.

Oh Four, you're so wise. Here's one of his impassioned arguments about how the virtues of the five factions can work together (to form Voltron). So Tris is braver—and more powerful—when she's being selfless. And her selflessness seems to come from her family. In that sense, her power lies not in her faction identity, but in her personal relationships. And family is something that crosses faction boundaries.

Great, Tris meets a nice (but wounded and mysterious) boy—and he starts talking like her father, which is a total turn-off. But he does have a theory of guilt that might help. So now Tris has two methods of dealing with guilt: trying to act like her parents and trying to do better next time—both of them Abnegation lessons.