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Beatrice Prior’s mother. Natalie is a strong, nurturing woman, although the rules of Abnegation society make it difficult for her to show her love for Beatrice or Caleb Prior. Some ways into the novel, Beatrice discovers that Natalie is Divergent, and grew up among the Dauntless. Natalie proves herself to be a powerful warrior, more than capable of protecting her family. In the end, she sacrifices her life to keep Beatrice safe.
Natalie Prior Quotes in Divergent
The Divergent quotes below are all either spoken by Natalie Prior or refer to Natalie Prior. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1 Quotes
We walk together to the kitchen. On these mornings when my brother makes breakfast, and my father’s hand skims my hair as he reads the newspaper, and my mother hums as she clears the table— it is on these mornings that I feel guiltiest for wanting to leave them.
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Beatrice Prior, the protagonist of the novel, faces a difficult decision. Now that she’s a young woman, she can either choose to live among her peers and her family—the Abnegation community—or she can choose to live in one of four other communities, each of which embodies a different moral or psychological value. Beatrice aspires to live somewhere else—she feels constricted by the strict moral code of Abnegation, and craves a place where she’s allowed to be brave and daring. And yet she feels guilty about her own aspirations—she knows that leaving her family will cause them a lot of pain Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas
Chapter 15 Quotes
“Cara,” says Will, frowning, “there’s no need to be rude.”
“Oh, certainly not. Do you know what she is?” She points at my mother. “She’s a council member’s wife is what she is. She runs the ‘volunteer agency’ that supposedly helps the factionless. You think I don’t know that you’re just hoarding goods to distribute to your own faction while we don’t get fresh food for a month, huh? Food for the factionless, my eye.”
“I’m sorry,” my mother says gently. “I believe you are mistaken.”
“Mistaken. Ha,” Cara snaps. “I’m sure you’re exactly what you seem. A faction of happy-go-lucky do-gooders without a selfish bone in their bodies. Right.”
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In this chapter, the Dauntless recruits get a chance to reunite with their families. At the reunion event, Beatrice--now named Tris--reunites with her mother, Natalie. Tris also meets her friends' parents, including Cara, Will's sister. Cara accuses Natalie of using her influential position to greedily hoard resources. Furthermore, Cara accuses the people of Abnegation of misrepresenting themselves as selfless and loving, when in reality they're just as greedy as everyone else.The fact that such an unpleasant argument breaks out at a reunion event suggests that the divides between the Factions run deep: Cara's Faction (Erudite) hates Natalie's (Abnegation), and always Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciun
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Natalie Prior Character Timeline in Divergent
The timeline below shows where the character Natalie Prior appears in Divergent. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 15
...can say much about herself, Four introduces himself to Tris’s mother—whose name, she says, is Natalie. Four tells Natalie that Tris is doing very well. Natalie thanks Four for his encouragement,...
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...Cara accuses Tris’s father of manipulating his government position to favor the people of Abnegation. Natalie politely denies this, and her politeness seems utterly foreign to Tris.
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Natalie asks Tris how she’s doing, and Tris says that she’s ranked near the bottom of...
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Natalie then asks Tris to ask Caleb to research “simulation serum,” as Natalie herself can’t visit...
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Chapter 16
The afternoon after Natalie’s visit, Tris finds Al sitting in the dormitory—he’s been hiding from his parents. Tris notices...
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Later that night, Tris thinks about her mother—why, she wonders, did Natalie choose Abnegation after growing up in Dauntless? Suddenly, Tris hears a cry in the dark....
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Chapter 20
...Tris’s Divergence from Dauntless records: the only people who know about Tris’s condition are Tori, Natalie, Four, and Tris herself. Tori mentions that her own brother was Divergent. He was found...
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Chapter 24
Tris has a dream in which she sees Natalie. Suddenly, Christina wakes her up and rushes her to the chasm. The Dauntless have just...
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Chapter 28
...that she should leave, and Tris gets up to go. She mentions to Caleb that Natalie wants him to research serum.
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Chapter 35
Tris tries to calm herself. She remembers being a child, when Natalie would bathe her. This reminds Tris of God—something she doesn’t think of very often. As...
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...a loud bang, and sees the glass of her tank cracking. She’s amazed to see Natalie, armed with a gun, peer into the tank—she says, “We have to run.” Tris stands...
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As Tris and Natalie run through Abnegation, Natalie explains a few things to Tris. Natalie has been monitoring train...
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Natalie leads Tris out of the building and points her toward a building where she claims...
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Chapter 36
Tris manages to make it to her family’s hiding place, as Natalie has directed her. Inside the hiding place, she finds Caleb and Andrew, along with a...
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