Chapter Fifteen - The One With Visiting Day

It's Visiting Day! Yipee! Hooray! Eric visits the dormitory and tells Tris that he was impressed by her victory over Molly. Tris feels a little bit guilty about it now.

"For the first time since I beat Molly, guilt pinches my gut. If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong."

 The initiates are reminded by Eric to not forget the golden rule: Faction Before Blood.

Tris doesn't think anyone from her family is going to show up. She sees family members of Peter, Will, and Christina. Then she notices her mother, Natalie. Tris is really happy to see her mother and the two of them share an emotional embrace. Awww! 

I don't understand what is so hard about shaking hands.
Even a fish can do it

Her mom informs her that her father was too busy to come and that she is not able to visit Caleb right now because of the feud between Abnegation and Erudite. Tris introduces her mother to Four. Tris realizes how awkward Four's handshake technique is. She comes to the conclusion that Four was a faction transfer because of the way shaking hands doesn't come naturally to him. This reminds me of the origin of the handshake. In our society, shaking hands was originally a way to show someone else that you do not possess a weapon. 

Now that my history lesson is over, back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Mmm.... chocolate cake

Next, Tris introduces her mother to Christina and Will. While they are trying to getting to know each other, Will's sister is very rude to both Tris and her mother. Natalie, being the Abnegation she is, takes Tris with her, away from the conflict. They go into a dark hallway and Natalie seems to know where she is going without a second thought. Hmm.... She asks Tris how the training has gone and also about her results from the aptitude test (that's a no-no). Without being told directly, she understands that Tris is divergent and tells her that it is common to find them from Abnegation. Her advice to Tris is to stay towards the middle of the pack and not draw any unneeded attention to herself. Before leaving, she tells Tris to visit Caleb and tell him to research the simulation serum. And also to try the chocolate cake; it's delicious.

After her mom leaves, Tris realizes what we did about 10 pages ago.

"My mother was Dauntless."

 DUN! DUN! DUN!