Peter constantly goads Tris by reading
the negative reports of the Abnegation
and insulting her, but Tris’s friends tell
her not to react.
After his girlfriend caught him cheating
and slapped him, Jimmy stood at his
locker dumbfounded and was bereft of
words.
Seniors sometimes deprecate freshmen
by making fun of them with chants
such as “sit down freshmen” at pep
rallies.
Tris sees many dilapidated buildings in
Chicago that are deteriorating while
waiting to be renovated.
Most of the Dauntless faction revere Eric
and follow his orders without question;
however, Tris often challenges Eric and
does not value him as an honorable
leader.
The lawyer used staged, depressing
images as an artifice to get the jury to
sympathize with the guilty defendant.
Students often wish that Shakespeare
would have adopted a terse writing
style and gotten to the point in his plays
instead of dragging out each line.
Teachers get annoyed when students
do not peruse the directions on
assignments because often the answer
to their questions was overlooked in the
directions.
My flippant little brother constantly
talks back to my mother and informs
her that she can’t tell him what to do.
Erudite does not hide the fact that they
dissent with the current rules in place
allowing Abnegation to run the
government because Erudite believes
they should be in charge.