The theme for Divergent is choices can change you and the people around you.
Quotes to support the theme:
Ch. 8 - " Looking at myself now isn't like seeing myself for the first time; it's like seeing someone else for the first time."
Ch. 24 - "'He pitched himself over the ledge...Something inside me collapses"(one of Tris's friends committed suicide, affecting her and other friends of his)
Ch. 36 - "The bullet hit him in the head...I still see Will. He smiles in my memory...It was him or me. I chose me."(Tris had to choose to either shoot one of her best friends who was brainwashed, or to give up her life and she chose her life over his)
Ch. 39 - "We have left everything behind. I have no home, no path, and no certainty. I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave."
Ch. 5 - "I will be the child that stays; I have to do this for my parents. I have to...My blood drips onto the carpet between two bowls. Then, with a gasp I can't contain, I shift my hand forward, and my blood sizzles on the coals. I am selfish. I am brave." (This shows that Tris originally planned on staying with Abnegation, her faction, then she decides to go to Dauntless instead)
Quotes to support the theme:
Ch. 8 - " Looking at myself now isn't like seeing myself for the first time; it's like seeing someone else for the first time."
Ch. 24 - "'He pitched himself over the ledge...Something inside me collapses"(one of Tris's friends committed suicide, affecting her and other friends of his)
Ch. 36 - "The bullet hit him in the head...I still see Will. He smiles in my memory...It was him or me. I chose me."(Tris had to choose to either shoot one of her best friends who was brainwashed, or to give up her life and she chose her life over his)
Ch. 39 - "We have left everything behind. I have no home, no path, and no certainty. I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave."
Ch. 5 - "I will be the child that stays; I have to do this for my parents. I have to...My blood drips onto the carpet between two bowls. Then, with a gasp I can't contain, I shift my hand forward, and my blood sizzles on the coals. I am selfish. I am brave." (This shows that Tris originally planned on staying with Abnegation, her faction, then she decides to go to Dauntless instead)