dissonant. ... Dissonant chords lack harmony. The word dissonant comes from the Old French dis- meaning "apart" and sonare meaning "to sound." When a noise is dissonant, it sounds like it's broken apart, or not meshing together well. Dissonant doesn't have to describe just music or sounds.
Like at the beginning of the book? Where the capulets and Montagues got into a street fight and the prince came and said that if this were to ever happen again they would be sentenced to death.
“In South Africa, a man who tried to fulfill his duty to his people was inevitably ripped from his family and home and was forced to live a life apart, a twilight existence of secrecy and rebellion.”