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Veronica Roth

Allegiant

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

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Chapters 26-30Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 26 Summary: “Tris”

Tris moves to the microscope and looks at the serum, questioning why Jeanine would work with the Bureau. She leaves the room and goes back to the rock sculpture. Caleb sees Tris and asks if she’s alright. He tries to comfort her, but Tris loses control and punches him in the face, screaming that Caleb is a traitor and that she will kill him. A guard intervenes, and Tris walks away.

The next day, Tris is in Matthew’s lab. She has decided she won’t help Nita but won’t stop her. Tris tells Matthew she heard something about Jeanine’s simulation in Chicago, and he asks if Tris heard it from Nita. He tells her he helped Nita a few times and asks what Nita’s plan is. Tris tells him Nita’s group is trying to take the memory serum, but she doesn’t know when. Matthew says they want the death serum, not the memory serum, and they plan to use it to assassinate government officials and start a war. He says they must inform David and stop the rebel attack.

Matthew and Tris pass the security checkpoint, and Tris sees the wall next to Uriah explode. They continue forward and run to the Weapons Lab. Tris picks up a gun as they make their way through several hallways. In one hallway, they can hear voices around the corner. Tris sees several people dressed in black in front of the Weapons Lab, one of whom is Nita. David kneels on the floor as one of the rebels presses a gun to his head.

Chapter 27 Summary: “Tris”

Nita tells David to open the lab. When he refuses, the man with the gun pointed at David shoots him in the leg. Tris sends Matthew for help. Nita then injects David with a blend of truth and fear serum to force information from him. As he reacts to the serum, he points to Tris, who is hiding down the hall. She fires blindly around the corner, hitting the man who shot David. She fires again and hits Nita in the hip. Tris grabs David and, using him as a shield, threatens to kill him. She begins to drag him away, but one of the rebels shoots his other leg, causing them to drop to the floor. A rebel fires and grazes Tris’s arm, but she manages to drag David around the corner just as Matthew returns with help.

Chapter 28 Summary: “Tris”

Tris goes to the compound’s hospital and is grateful she doesn’t find Tobias. Uriah is unconscious, and his prognosis is grim. Tris gets stitches in a cut over her eye, and she asks the nurse how David is doing. The nurse says he’ll live but won’t walk for a long time. Several people rush in, carrying Nita. When the nurse finishes, Tris wanders around and finds Christina in the waiting area. She is upset that no one will update her on Uriah, and she tells Tris that the Bureau arrested Tobias.

Chapter 29 Summary: “Tobias”

Tobias sits near Reggie, Mary, and Rafi after he’s arrested. They have been sitting in an empty corridor for over an hour and are not allowed to talk. He wonders what is taking so long and what is happening. Tobias asks Reggie if they were going to take just the memory serum, and when Reggie doesn’t answer, Tobias knows Tris is right: Nita lied.

Tobias sees Tris walking down the hall toward him. She tells him about Nita’s plan with the death serum and that Uriah was by the wall when it exploded, leaving him unconscious and unlikely to wake up. Before walking away, Tris tells Tobias she might never be able to look at him the same way.

During his interrogation, Tobias gives the story Nita gave him. Because his story matches the other rebels’, the Bureau only sentences him to a year-long parole.

Chapter 30 Summary: “Tris”

Tris and Cara talk outside Uriah’s room. Cara says Tris saved the Bureau, but Tris says she just kept a weapon out of the wrong hands. Cara asks what the Bureau did to make Tris angry, so Tris takes her to the labs to see the simulation serum.

Chapters 26-30 Analysis

Because Tris and Tobias are handling everything they’re learning at the Bureau so differently, their relationship has grown tense. Tris hopes the Bureau can be a new home for her, and she continues to learn more about her mom; Tobias allows his insecurities to cloud his judgment. This internal conflict begins to cause external conflict between the two characters. When Nita tells them her plan to steal the memory serum, the tension between Tris and Tobias increases further. Tris doesn’t trust Nita, but Tobias thinks jealousy clouds Tris’s judgment. After the attack, the two cannot reconcile their differences because they refuse to see the other’s perspective, which creates additional tension. The previous novels in the series depict conflict between the two characters, yet the struggle Tris and Tobias face now is more complicated. It stems from the internal conflict of each character, forcing them to overcome their insecurities before they can reconcile with one another.

This section also depicts the lack of accountability for those with damaged genes. For example, David pleads with Nita when she tries to get into the Weapons Lab, telling her, “I know this is just the fault of your genes” (288) as if Nita has no control over her actions and can only do what her genes dictate she will do. Likewise, Nita’s sentence for her attack on the Bureau is just life imprisonment, not execution. When Tobias asks about this, he’s told, “We can’t have the same behavioral expectations for those with damaged genes as we do for those with pure genes” (304). This same thinking means Tobias is only sentenced to a year’s parole for his part in the attack. The group from Chicago has heard of the discrimination the GPs have against the GDs, but now they can see that discrimination for themselves.

Nita’s lie to Tris and Tobias about her intentions for the attack tap into a common struggle for most of the characters in the book: the ability to trust and discern the truth. Once the group from Chicago enters the Bureau, they are inundated with a completely new and challenging reality. They learn their home was an experiment, and the Bureau has watched them their entire lives. They’re also learning who is fighting whom, who is deceiving whom, and who is trustworthy and who is not. This constant battle between truth and deception causes many internal and external conflicts for the characters, forcing them to make difficult decisions with very little information. Each character reacts to the new information in their own way, but some characters, like Tobias, struggle more than others to understand the intentions and honesty of others.

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