Divergent Thinking
“ARROW I know all the words she’s saying—except I’m not sure what [a] “united states” is—but they don’t make sense to me all together . . . Chicago. It’s so strange to have a name for the place that was always just home to me. It makes the city smaller in my mind.
—Allegiant Before Tris Prior and the rest of her small group come together to escape from their city near the beginning of Allegiant, all she knows is Chicago—but not Chicago, Illinois. Not Chicago, in Cook County, in the United States of America. In the years between now and the time Divergent takes place, the Chicago we know has become a bubble-nation on the former shore of Lake Michigan.
To Tris, because the city is everything, it isn’t a city at all, but an entity—a world—unto itself, with its own set of rules, regulations, landmarks, and history. Although the names remain for places like Navy Pier, the Merchandise Mart, even Randolph and State Streets and Michigan Avenue, there are no reference points for Tris to know wh...at they were built upon.MoreLess
—Allegiant Before Tris Prior and the rest of her small group come together to escape from their city near the beginning of Allegiant, all she knows is Chicago—but not Chicago, Illinois. Not Chicago, in Cook County, in the United States of America. In the years between now and the time Divergent takes place, the Chicago we know has become a bubble-nation on the former shore of Lake Michigan.
To Tris, because the city is everything, it isn’t a city at all, but an entity—a world—unto itself, with its own set of rules, regulations, landmarks, and history. Although the names remain for places like Navy Pier, the Merchandise Mart, even Randolph and State Streets and Michigan Avenue, there are no reference points for Tris to know wh...at they were built upon.MoreLess
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