Inferences

Currently in Divergent, the Dauntless trainees have almost completed stage one of initiation. Tris has started to redeem herself from her fight with Peter, in which she lost and got extremely injured. She does this by proving her thoughtfulness in an intense game of capture the flag. The trainees are split into two teams: those chosen by Four and those chosen by Eric. Tris is picked by Four, whom everyone on the team has a very lean and thin body structure. After hiding the flag, Four’s team starts to argue about strategies of capturing Eric’s team flag. While the team is bickering, Tris decides to climb to the top of a broken down Ferris wheel. Four follows her to make sure she is okay. This is when I first started to make an inference: Four is very interested in Tris. On the Ferris wheel, Tris loses her balance.  Four rebalance by placing a hand on one of her hips and pushing her up to the next rung. She becomes very unsteady by this action and describes the following: “I feel the ghost of where his had was, his fingers long and narrow,” (Roth 161). This indicated to me that there is a spark between Four and Tris. Another line of proof for this theory is when Tris and Four are arguing after another day of training. Four says, “You know, I’m getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on!” (Roth 182). This made me think that Four is trying to show Tris that he is interested in her but she is not picking up the hints which is irritating him. Hopefully, later in the book Four and Tris will date and maybe even marry since their personalities correspond very well.