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Veronica Roth

Insurgent

Veronica RothFiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

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Chapters 1–6 Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 1 Summary

Tris, Four/Tobias, Caleb, Marcus—Four’s father and Abnegation leader—and Peter seek refuge with the Amity faction. They find surviving members of Abnegation there too. The Amity welcome them, treating Tris’s gunshot wound and giving them food, clothing, and shelter.

Chapter 2 Summary

The Amity meet as a group and decide that the members of all other factions are welcome to seek shelter with them—their compound serving as a safe house—as long as they bring no weapons and maintain the peace. Johanna Reyes tells them of Amity’s decision to remain neutral in this conflict; though the Amity have no official leader, they choose Johanna as their spokesperson. Tris and Tobias recognize that they won’t be able to stay long; knowing they have brought in and hidden Tris’s gun and they have no intention of maintaining peace.

Chapter 3 Summary

Tris overhears Marcus and Johanna discussing some important information that Abnegation were trying to keep secret from the Erudite. Jeanine—leader of the Erudite, attacked the Abnegation to get that information. Marcus tries to convince Johanna to protect the Abnegation and to try to retrieve that information from Jeanine before she destroys it. Johanna wants Marcus to tell her what that information is, but he refuses, fearing betrayal.

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