Ingeniero Civil

Divergent

Veronica Roth

To my mother, who gave me the moment when Beatrice realizes how strong her mother is and wonders how she missed it for so long

Contents Chapter One THERE IS ONE mirror in my house. It is behind… Chapter Two THE TESTS BEGIN after lunch. We sit at the long… Chapter Three I WAKE TO sweaty palms and a pang of guilt… Chapter Four I REACH MY street five minutesbefore I usually do, … Chapter Five THE BUS WE take to get to the Choosing Ceremony… Chapter Six I TRAIN MY eyes on the floor and stand behind… Chapter Seven WHEN ALL THE initiates stand on solid ground again, Lauren… Chapter Eight “THE FIRST THING you will learn today is how to…

Chapter Nine “SINCE THERE ARE an odd number of you, one of… Chapter Ten THAT NIGHT I dream that Christina hangs fromthe railing… Chapter Eleven THE NEXT MORNING, I don’t hear the alarm, shuffling feet,… Chapter Twelve I CRAWL ACROSS my mattress and heave a sigh. It… Chapter Thirteen THE NEXT MORNING, when I trudge into the training room,… Chapter Fourteen TODAY IS THE day before Visiting Day. I think of… Chapter Fifteen VISITING DAY. The second I open my eyes, I remember. Chapter Sixteen THAT AFTERNOON, I go backto the dormitory while everyone…

Chapter Seventeen IT’S NOON. LUNCHTIME. Chapter Eighteen AS FAR AS I can tell, the second stage of… Chapter Nineteen WHEN I WALK IN, most of the other initiates— Dauntless-born and… Chapter Twenty I BREATHE THROUGH my nose. In, out. In. Chapter Twenty-One THE DOOR TO the Pit closes behind me, and I… Chapter Twenty-Two I OPEN MY eyes to the words “Fear GodAlone”… Chapter Twenty-Three I DON’T GO back to the dorms that night. Sleeping… Chapter Twenty-Four “TRIS.” Chapter Twenty-Five I STAND WITH Will and Christina at the railing overlooking… Chapter Twenty-Six HAND IN HAND, we walk toward the Pit. I monitor…

Chapter Twenty-Seven THE NEXT MORNING I am silly and light. Every time… Chapter Twenty-Eight I PULL MY jacket tight around my shoulders. Ihaven’t… Chapter Twenty-Nine I HAVE ATTENDED Abnegation’s ceremony every year except this… initiation

Chapter Thirty I AM READY. I step into the room, armed not… Chapter Thirty-One THE LIGHTS COME on. I stand alone in the empty… Chapter Thirty-Two I WATCH TOBIAS’S face carefully as we walk to the… Chapter Thirty-Three I TRY TO get Tobias alone after the rankings are… Chapter Thirty-Four I LEAN HEAVILYon Tobias. A gun barrel pressed to… Chapter Thirty-Five

I WAKE IN the dark, wedged in a hard corner. Chapter Thirty-Six THREE DAUNTLESS SOLDIERS pursue me. They run in unison, their… Chapter Thirty-Seven ERUDITE AND DAUNTLESS forces concentrated in the Abnegation sector… are

Chapter Thirty-Eight TOBIAS’S HEAD TURNS, and his dark eyes shift to me. Chapter Thirty-Nine THE SHOT DOESN’T come.He stares at me with the… Acknowledgments About the Author Praise Credits Copyright About the Publisher

CHAPTER ONE THERE IS ONE mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel
in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair. I sit on the stool and my mother stands behind me with the scissors,trimming. The strands fall on the floor in a dull, blond ring. When she finishes, she pulls my hair away from my face and twists it into a knot. I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can’t say the same of myself. I sneak a look at my reflection when she isn’t paying attention—not for the sake of vanity, but out of curiosity. A lot canhappen to a person’s appearance in three months. In my reflection, I see a narrow face, wide, round eyes, and a long, thin nose—I still look like a little girl, though sometime in the last few months I turned sixteen. The other factions celebrate birthdays, but we don’t. It would be self-indulgent. “There,” she says when she pins the knot in place. Her eyes catch mine in the mirror. It is too...