All 33 Uses of
amity
in
Divergent
- I could tell him I've been worried for weeks about what the aptitude test will tell me—Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, Amity, or Dauntless?†
Chpt 1
- A group of Amity girls in yellow and red sit in a circle on the cafeteria floor, playing some kind of hand-slapping game involving a rhyming song.†
Chpt 2
- Two from Dauntless, two from Erudite, two from Amity, two from Candor, and then: "From Abnegation: Susan Black and Beatrice Prior."†
Chpt 2
- If you had shown an automatic distaste for the knife and selected the cheese, the simulation would have led you to a different scenario that confirmed your aptitude for Amity.†
Chpt 3
- That didn't happen, which is why Amity is out.†
Chpt 3
- The elevator is crowded, so my father volunteers to give a cluster of Amity our place.†
Chpt 5
- I stand between Caleb and Danielle Pohler, an Amity girl with rosy cheeks and a yellow dress.†
Chpt 5
- Each one contains a substance that represents each faction: gray stones for Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, and glass for Candor.†
Chpt 5
- Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.†
Chpt 5
- The Amity exchange smiles.†
Chpt 5
- Abnegation has fulfilled our need for selfless leaders in government; Candor has provided us with trustworthy and sound leaders in law; Erudite has supplied us with intelligent teachers and researchers; Amity has given us understanding counselors and caretakers; and Dauntless provides us with protection from threats both within and without.†
Chpt 5
- The first girl to choose decides on Amity, the same faction from which she came.†
Chpt 5
- When the last girl makes her choice—Amity—it's time to leave.†
Chpt 6
- Well, I'm not doing it," says an Amity boy behind me.†
Chpt 6
- He has olive skin and wears a brown shirt—he is the only transfer from Amity.†
Chpt 6
- The Amity boy shakes his head.†
Chpt 6
- All the initiates except the Amity boy made it onto the roof, with varying levels of success.†
Chpt 6
- Of those, I am the only Abnegation transfer, and there are no Amity transfers.†
Chpt 7
- Candor's real problem is with Amity.†
Chpt 8
- These days, the only artists are in Amity.†
Chpt 8
- At the hospital, an Amity woman in a yellow shirt with clean fingernails took my mother's blood pressure and set her bone with a smile.†
Chpt 10
- When I came here with my family as a child, we rode in a bus on that road and beyond, to Amity's farms, where we spent the day picking tomatoes and sweating through our shirts.†
Chpt 11
- You may be able to go on patrols beyond Amity's farms, but—"†
Chpt 11
- The back of the truck is open, and a few other Amity sit among the stacks of crates.†
Chpt 11
- "Beatrice?" an Amity boy says.†
Chpt 11
- One of the Amity in the back of the truck stands.†
Chpt 11
- Only in Amity do people hug each other in greeting.†
Chpt 11
- For a few seconds I look at the scales that represent Candor, the eye that stands for Erudite, and the tree that symbolizes Amity.†
Chpt 31
- Our best option is to go to the Amity compound in the hope that they'll take us in.†
Chpt 36
- Then we'll have to decide who goes and who continues on to Amity," he says.†
Chpt 36
- I watch the others run in the opposite direction—toward safety, toward Amity—for a few seconds, and then I turn away, toward the city, toward the war.†
Chpt 37
- "If we take the train in the opposite direction, out of the city instead of in, we can get to Amity headquarters," I say.†
Chpt 39
- The kindness of Amity will comfort us for a while, though we can't stay there forever.
Chpt 39 *amity = the group of people to whom it is most important to be friendly and live in peaceeditor's notes: Outside of this novel, amity is not capitalized and refers to "a state of friendly relations".
Definition:
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(amity) a state of friendly relations(editor's note: In this novel, you will see amity capitalized and used many times to refer to a group of people to whom it is most important to be friendly and live in peace.)