Allegiant (Divergent, #3)

by Veronica Roth

Her flare of anger sets me off. I say, “Don’t forget that I barely know you, Evelyn.”

One of the discussions I remember having while they were making the Insurgent movie was how to “age up” the dynamic between Evelyn and Tobias. In the movie, all the characters are a little older than in the book—the people who made the movie weren’t expecting anyone to believe that Theo James is eighteen and that Shailene Woodley is sixteen. As a result, the dynamic between Evelyn and Tobias that exists in the book doesn’t quite work for a grown man and his adult mother. Adult children of profoundly imperfect parents are certainly still affected by those parents, but they have also had more time to navigate life as independent adults. As a result, the Evelyn-Tobias relationship in the movie is more tense and bitter, and less raw and hot-headed.