Chapter Thirty-seven

Tris picks Caleb, Marcus, and Tris's dad to go with her to the Dauntless compound. I think it works out well that Tris is Divergent and that she is partly Erudite, so she can assume some of Jeanine's thoughts about placement and her future plans. They soon make it to Tris's lifestyle and they have to learn how to jump on and off trains, and then they jump off that seven story building, to the back-entrance of the Dauntless compound.

(Random thought.) Does anyone else think it's perplexing that Tris's mother was a Dauntless-born, and now Tris transferred to Dauntless? Also, that Tris's dad was Erudite-born and Caleb was going to become and Erudite? Their parents also chose Abnegation, while the kids chose to leave Abnegation. This seems coincidental but it comes back to the whole Nature vs. Nurture. They all were affiliated with Abnegation, and maybe they were all Divergent because of it.

They enter the compound and Peter is the soldier who is guarding the entryway to the pit. So Tris catches him off guard, then ends up shooting his arm because of the anger she has built up against him. She decides to spare his life though because he knows where the control room is. Peter isn't under the simulation and he explains it's because they said he didn't have to undergo the simulation, but I think it's because he is Divergent also. Why would they spare the number 5 initiate anyways?

Her encounters with Marcus are unsettling, and I've come to the conclusion that Marcus is evil. enough said.

This is a skyscraper in North Korea. It resembles Marcus's facade about being the leader of Abnegation and seeming selfless, when on the inside he is hollow and has problems.

As she climbs the stairs to the control room, she has to fire at many guards, and it turns out that one of them is Divergent too and kind of helps to lead her to the control room. They are almost through all of the guards when they soon become surrounded and Tris's dad runs in the wrong direction, trapping himself in a dead end. He ends up dying, also to save Tris and we'll never know what he has to say!

She finally makes it to the control room, where Tobias is sitting intently at the computers. There are many of them, all running through numbers and codes. There are many crazy monitors which show what is happening back in Abnegation.

"Now, preparing to jump off a moving train is nothing, because I have done more difficult things in the past few weeks than most people will in a lifetime. And yet none of it compares to what I am about to do in the Dauntless compound."