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evil. He betrayed Tris and their family in order to remain loyal to his faction, Erudite.
3.2 The Characters Who Using The Negative Ideas Marcus Eaton
Marcus Eaton is one of the council members of Abnegation and is the only one out of these who remains alive after the attack of Dauntless controlled by
Erudite through simulation. He was born in Abnegation and chooses Abnegation as his faction. He is the husband of Evelyn Johnson and the father of Tobias
Four, both of whom he abused thoroughly, resulting in Evelyn leaving the family to become factionless and Four transferring to Dauntless the instant he had
the choice, much to Marcus shock as he wanted him to continue living in Abnegation. Marcus is a good friend of Tris father, Andrew, who is also a council
member of Abnegation. He is described to have been similar in appearance to his son - in particular, both of them have similar dark blue eyes.
Beatrice Prior
Beatrice Prior also known as Tris is round and dynamic character. She tries to avoid things that bring back her past. She stated this right before she cut
her hair because it reminded her of her mother. Tris is also very determined. When she was asking Marcus for information and he was not giving her any. She
is in a relationship with Tobias and he is her main support system. She becomes more accepting of herself and more confident. She is Divergent and understands it
more. She is brave and never be able to control her. According to being Divergent
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she is Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite which means she is selfless, brave, and intelligent.
Tobias Eaton
Tobias Eaton is also known as Four, he is brave and does not have many fears. He wants to stop the war with as little problems as possible. He is
strong, can lose his temper easily, and hates Marcus who is his father. He is smart and good at coming up with plans. He was elected leader of Dauntless after Eric
died even though he never wanted to be leader. He wants to protect Tris. He is also stubborn at times.
Evelyn Johnson-Eaton
Evelyn Johnson-Eaton is the leader of the factionless. She is the mother of Four. She was born in Erudite but realizes that she is not smart enough
for Erudite even before her initiation test. She chooses Abnegation as her faction and marries Marcus Eaton. During their marriage Marcus abuses her and
eventually she had an affair and left Four with Marcus. Marcus fakes her death but she contacts Four after his transfer into Dauntless, according to Four their
meeting was not a happy one. She and Tris do not see eye to eye and Tris does not trust her because she left Four with Marcus despite knowing his abusive nature.
She is described as having dark hair and eyes, distinct olive skin, strong angular features and appears middle-aged.
Hector
Hector is the youngest of three children with his older sisters, Shauna and Lynn. In Insurgent, Hector is present in Candor during a meeting with other
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Dauntless members and gets injected with a new serum released by Dauntless- traitor, Eric. The serum was developed by Erudite and allows them to control
whoever is injected with it; they plan to make Dauntless members kill themselves every two days unless a Divergent is handed over. Under simulation, Hector,
Marlene, and Kee attempt to jump off a building. He is saved by Tris and Christina, alongside Kee, though the two are unable to prevent Marlene from
falling to her death. Eric
Eric was born in Erudite and transfers to Dauntless. He is described as tall with long dark colored hair and has numerous piercings. He has dull gray
color eyes appears cold and a loud and long evil laugh. In The Transfer, he is a Dauntless initiate, along with Four. He along with Erudite and Dauntless traitors
attacked Candor, to capture Abnegation survivors and Divergent for testing and also injects the Dauntless with another serum. During the attack he kills the little
Divergent boy and gets caught when Tris injured him. When the Dauntless find out that one of Erudites peace conditions for Candor is to hand over Eric safely,
the newly elected Dauntless leaders sentence him to death. He asks Four to be his executioner, who complies. Despite his taunting and casualness, even in the face
of death, he can not be brave.
Jeanine Matthews
Jeanine Matthews is the main antagonist. She is a flat and static character. Not much is known about her or her background, except that she was
raised in Erudite. She despises the Divergent. While doing testing on Tris she was
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described as like a machine, cold and emotionless, bound by logic alone. She wants control of the factions. She is intelligent but is also arrogant and greedy.
She plans on having Erudite and Dauntless against everyone to take control.
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4.CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 4.1 Conclusion
The writer found out that this novel has relation to the negative ideas. Because the negative ideas is a set of thoughts that inhibits a persons steps toward
better conditions and makes a person’s attitude becomes unfocused. Types of negative ideas are angry, jealous, prejudice, crime action, having negative
assumption, threatening, betrayal, unfaithful, control freak, anxiety, fear, revenge, sadness, introspective, anxious, desperate, lonely, feel worthless, pessimistic, and
easy to give up.
This analysis concluded that the reader can understand entire the types of the negative ideas and also tells the reader the negative impact when we did the
negative ideas. The impact of the negative ideas can inhibit a person steps towards better condition. The writer found out that there are seven types of negative ideas
which consist of crime action, revenge, angry, control freak, negative assumption, threatening, and betraying.
In this novel, the writer gets more explanation about the negative ideas, the type, the negative impact of it and the reason why the characters in this
novel did the negative ideas. And from this novel the reader also able to understand the intention of Veronica Roth as the author of the novel that we as the
human being do not have to execute the negative idea because it can be result the negative impact for our life.
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4.2 Suggestion
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