Book Review

I absolutely loved this book!  Everything was so detailed!  Veronica Roth gave me romance, action, and comedy (I thought some parts were pretty funny) in one book.  When I first heard this was a Distopian book, I didn't know what to expect.  I loved the Hunger Games but hated The Giver.  Needless to say, I wasn't disappointed, at all!  This is officially my new favorite book.  I can't wait to read Insurgent.  If the library ever gets it in that is.

The, let me make this very clear, one thing I didn't like about this book was Tris and Four's weird relationship.  Sometimes it was cute, but other times it was just plain weird.  They go from yelling at each other, to almost dying (multiple times, I might add), to making out on a train.  I don't get it.

Anyway, I would definately recommend this book to others.  Not only because of the story, but because it gets you thinking about how choices can affect you for the rest of your life. Props to Veronica Roth for a great book!

Chapter 39

The shot doesn't come.  He stares at me with same ferocity but doesn't move.  Why doesn't he shoot me?  He is Divergent  he can fight this simulation.  Any simulation.

Tris is luuucky.  Tobias finally snaps out of it and starts kissing her.  He even gets tears in his eyes!

"How did you do it?" I say.

"I don't know," he says.  "I just heard your voice."

Four shuts down the program and takes the hard drive out of the computer.  All of the Dauntless wake up, and there is chaos.  People are screaming, running around, and don't know what to do.  I would feel the same way.  I can't imagine waking up suddenly in a different part of town, surrounded by dead bodies, with a gun in my hand.  It's disturbing to think about.

On their way out of the compound, Tobias sees Marcus for the first time in two years.  He is stunned and doesn't know what to do.  Tris is furious when Marcus denies that the Erudite were right about him abusing his son.

"The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it," I say.  "Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care."

Go Tris!  They should just leave Marcus behind, no one would miss him. 

Tris, Tobias, Caleb, Marcus, and Peter all head to the Amity compound.  Tris doesn't feel safe with Peter and Marcus with them, especially when Marcus's eyes can't stop looking at the hard drive containing the data to make an army.  One good thing that happens in this chapter is Four tells Tris he loves her! 

Abnegation and Dauntless are both broken, their members scattered.  We are like the factionless now. 

Chapter 38

Tobias doesn't recognize Tris and even starts to fight her.  Tris knows she can't beat him in a fight.  She tries to get him to wake up.  Tris even has the chance to shoot him, but she isn't able to.

"Tobias, please."  I am begging.  I am pathetic.  Tears make my face hot.  "Please see me, Tobias, please!"

When that doesn't work Tris comes up with another idea.  One that she has used before in her fear landscape.  She gives him the gun back and allows him to put it to her head.

The bullet clicks into the chamber.  Maybe it will be as easy to let him shoot me as it was in the fear landscape, as it is in my dreams.

Tris is officially crazy.  If she dies no one will be able to shut down the program and save Chicago!  This idea better work, or Abnegation is screwed.

Chapter 37

It is decided that Tris, Caleb, Marcus, and Andrew (Tris's dad) will go to Dauntless.  The others try to make it to Amity.  When they are riding the train Marcus makes a statement.

"I assume you now regret choosing Dauntless," Marcus says.

I shake my head.

"Not even after your faction's leaders decided to join in a plot to overthrow the government?" Marcus spits. 

"There were some things I needed to learn."

They get into the compound with little problem.  It was interesting to read how Abnegation members handled getting into Dauntless.  Marcus almost falls off of the roof, and Tris hopes he does.  Unfortunately, he is pulled up by Caleb and Andrew.  When Tris tries to find the program she finds Peter.  He's awake.  Tris shoots him in the arm when he won't tell her where the program is.  That was my favorite part of the whole chapter.  Anyway, Peter will only tell Tris where the program is if she takes him with her so the Dauntless won't kill him.  She agrees because she has no other choice. 

Tris's dad is not happy that she shot Peter, but Tris knows that she has no other choice if she wants to stop the Erudite plan. 

On the way to the control room where the program is stored, they are ambushed by Dauntless guards.

My father jumps out of the elevator and sprints down the right hallway, drawing the Dauntless guards after him.  I clap my hand to my mouth to keep from screaming at him.  That hallway will end.

And just like that, Tris and Caleb become orphans.  I'm honestly surprised that Tris hasn't broken down yet.  She killed one of her best friends, her parents were murdered protecting her, and Tobias is a mindless zombie.  She is stronger than anyone gives her credit for. 

Finally, Tris reaches the control room.  The room is filled with monitors that show every part of the city.

In front of the screen is a chair and a desk.  Sitting in the chair is a Dauntless soldier.

"Tobias," I say.

Chapter 36

While Tris is running to get to the rest of her family a Dauntless guard stops her.  It's Will.  She kills him before he can kill her.

He smiles in my memories.  A curled lip.  Straight teeth.  Light in his eyes.  Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I am in reality.  It was him or me.  I chose me.  But I feel dead too.

I can't even imagine how painful that must be for Tris.  Her first kill ever, was one of her best friends. 

Tris makes it  to where her family is.  Caleb takes out the bullet in her shoulder and sews her up.  Tris breaks the news that their mother is dead.  Marcus Eaton is also in the building with them.  He suggests they try and escape to Amity.  Tris says they have to shut down the program that is controlling the Dauntless.

"If we wake the Dauntless up, they will probably revolt when they realize what's going on," I explain.  "The Erudite won't have an army.  The Abnegation will stop dying.  This will be over."

Tris is pretty sure the program controlling the Dauntless is in the Dauntless compound so she comes up with a plan to shut it down.  Tris's dad is the first to volunteer to help her. 

                                           

Tony Goldwyn plays Tris's dad in the movie Divergent.

Chapter 35

Tris wakes up in a tank that is filling with water.  She knows is isn't a simulation this time, she is going to die.  Tris accepts her fate and when is underwater about to pass out from lack of oxygen she sees her mother.

It really is her mother!  Natalie shoots the tank and frees Tris from it.  Her mom is so cool!

"Beatrice," she says.  "Beatrice, we have to run."

They flee the building and we find out something about Natalie.  She's also Divergent!  Tris is shocked and asks her why they are such a threat.

"We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders.  It means we can't be controlled.  And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them."

I feel like someone has breathed new air into my lungs.  I am not Abnegation.  I am not Dauntless.  I am Divergent.  An I can't be controlled.

Tris's mom tells her how to find her father and Caleb.  Then, she distracts the guards while Tris runs away.  She is shot and killed.

              

Chapter 34

Tris and Tobias are taken to Jeanine, who is the mastermind behind this plan.  She knew that Tris was Divergent already but she didn't know Four was one.

"You, Tobias-or should I call you Four?-managed to elude me," she says quietly.  "Everything about you checked out: test results, initiation simulations, everything.  But here you are nonetheless."

Jeanine believes that Tobias really belongs in Abnegation so his Divergence is weak ,and therefore, didn't show up in the tests.  I find that hard to believe , because Tobias is so good at everything, and he only has four fears!  How could his Divergence be weak?

Jeanine reveals he motive behind her plan.  She wants to be in charge of the government and make it more prosperous.  But first she had to get rid of the Abnegation leaders. 

Jeanine also created a new serum that will work on Divergents and Tobias is the first test subject.  Before they can inject him though, he attacks Jeanine and chokes her.  Tobias is pulled off her though and is injected with the serum.  The serum works and Tobias becomes one of Jeanine's soldiers.  Tris is taken away.