Amity

The Amity compound is one of the main settings in the story. Tris, Tobias, and others arrive at Amity after being on the run. The Amity are a peace loving group and welcome the refugees to stay for one night. Tris describes Amity as being exactly the opposite of a Dauntless. It is light and peaceful whereas Dauntless is much darker.

The people of Amity dress in red and yellow to differentiate themselves from others. Tris becomes impatient when the group, a true democracy, takes forever to vote on whether than can stay.

The people at Amity do not have an established religion. They are represented by Johanna Reyes.

Erudite

The Erudite compound is the site with most of the action in the story. Jeanine Matthews, the head of Erudite, does experiments on people under the ruse of research. The Erudite are just as their name suggests – intelligent...