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Tris means to tell Four what the Erudite plan is but she falls asleep before she can tell him. She wakes up to all of the new members getting dressed, and realizes that the Erudite have put their plan into action.  Tris plays along so she doesn't get in trouble and sees that all of Dauntless are being given guns and loading the trains.  Luckily, Four is also awake and grabs Tris's hand to let her know that.

"Run."

"My family," I say.

The Dauntless end up in the Abnegation section of town and start shooting.  Tris sees Tori kill a council member, she almost starts crying.  I would not be as strong as Tris is right now, I would've started crying way earlier. 

As Tris watches helplessly as Abnegation members are killed she hears Eric talking about what is happening.

"They receive commands from out computers in the transmitters we injected into them with and carry them out seamlessly."

Then Eric walks up to Four, who he believes is in in the trance, and holds a gun to his head.  He had been jealous of Four for a long time and wants him dead.  Tris stops him by shooting him in the foot.  As they run away Tris is shot in the shoulder and they are caught.

"Divergent rebels," Eric says, standing on one foot.  His face is sickly white.  "Surrender your weapons."

Chapter 32

Tris and Four head to the banquet where the final rankings will be announced.  Tris sits with Christina and Will.  They talk about what kind of jobs they would like to choose.  Christina wants to be like Four, training initiates.  I think that training initiates would also be a fun job to have.  Tris wants to be an ambassador to the other factions.  Will wants to be a Dauntless leader, so does Peter.  Peter would be the WORST person to be in charge of people, it would be like another Eric! 

Christina and Will are so cute together.  When Tris asks Christina how her fear of moths went in her landscape Will teases her.  This cracked me up when I read it.

"Moths," repeats Will.  "You're afraid of moths?"

"Not just a cloud of mother," she says, "like...a swarm of them.  Everywhere.  All those wings and legs and..."  She shudders and shakes her head.

"Terrifying," Will says with mock seriousness.  "That's my girl.  Tough as cotton balls."

Anyway, Eric delivers a short speech congratulating the initiates on becoming members.  Then the final rankings appear.  Tris is ranked first, again!  Molly and Drew are the two initiates who are cut.  Which rocks!  They didn't deserve to be in Dauntless anyway.  Tris is ecstatic and even kisses Four in front of everyone. 

She also figures out how the Erudite will get them to fight in their war.  Out of the blue, she comes up with the idea that the injection all Dauntless received will brainwash them into fighting.

               

Chapter 31

Tris successfully finishes her final test!  Eric is waiting for her when she gets out and injects her with another serum that has a tracking device in it.  Bad news...the Erudite invented it.  Tris knows that she can't let herself be injected by anything the Erudite created, but she also can't refuse.  Eric gives her the shot.

"I heard a rumor that you only had seven obstacles to face," he says.  "Practically unheard of."

Four invites Tris back to his room to unwind before the banquet later that night.  Tris doesn't want to be afraid of him so she agrees.  While there Tris tells Four that he was in her fear landscape.  She explains her fear to him and Four confesses that he also has no experience with relationships either.  Tris also gets to see Four shirtless! Lucky girl.  On his back are all the faction tattoos in a line.

"I think we've made a mistake," he says softly.  "We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the proves of bolstering our own.  I don't want to do that.  I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest."

I agree with Four. Think of how much better the factions would be if everyone tried to have all of those virtues. 

                                                   

Chapter 30

Tris enters her fear landscape.  The first fear she overcomes is being attacked by crows, but what she is really afraid of is loss of control.  Tris doesn't fight the birds, and manipulates the simulation into giving her a gun.  The gun gives her a sense of power and that calms her down, so she moves onto her next fear.  The next fear she faces is being drowned in a glass box, but she manipulates that simulation to make the glass thin so she can break it.  Her third fear she faces is drowning in the middle of the ocean, but she grabs onto a rock and pulls herself out.  The next fear is being burned alive at the stake by Peter, she manipulates this simulation into raining so the fire is put out before it can harm her.  Then, Tris is in a glass room and hundreds of zombie type people are trying to get into it and attack her.  She calms her heart rate down enough to move onto the next fear.  This fear is really funny.  Tris is afraid of intimacy.  She is in a room with Tobias and has to calm down enough to move on. 

I look Simulation Tobias in the eye and say sternly, "I am not going to sleep with you in a hallucination.  Okay?"

I press against him and kiss him, my hands wrapping around his arms.  He feels strong.  He feels...good.  And he's gone.

Tris's last fear is having to choose between shooting her family or dying herself.  She chooses to turn around and put her forehead against the barrel of the gun. 

Shoot me instead.

"One!"

I hear a click, and a bang.

This chapter was fun to read and see all of Tris's fears.  The intimacy simulation was the funniest, and all of the Dauntless leaders saw it! Including Eric!  That's awkward.  As for her last fear, simulation or not, it was really brave of Tris to sacrifice herself for her family. 

                  

Tris's fears.

Chapter 29

Today's the day of the final test!!! It will decide who becomes members and who leave as factionless.  In Dauntless, it's crazy!  People are everywhere drinking, one person even falls off of the Pit wall.

Before Tris goes into the fear landscape, she gets some food and heads back to the dormitory.  When she looks at what she got, she realizes that she picked out Abnegation food. 

I sigh.  Abnegation is what I am.  It is what I am when I'm not thinking about what I'm doing.  It is what I am when I am put to the test.  It is what I am even when I appear to be brave.  Am I in the wrong faction?

Tris is the last initiate to go through the fear landscape, because she is ranked first.    No one sees the actual fears but they see the initiates reaction to them.  While Tris is waiting for her turn she reminds herself that she can manipulate the simulations, and she's had practice doing it. 

When her name is called Eric gives the the simulation serum.

I imagine that the serum is liquid adrenaline rushing through my veins, making me strong.

"Ready?" he asks.



Simulation serum!

Chapter 28

Tris leaves the Dauntless compound to go see Caleb, she knows that she's not supposed to leave the compound unsupervised but she needs to get away.  When Tris gets to the Erudite compound she finds Caleb, and they talk about each others faction.  Tris asks what's wrong when she sees dark circles under his eyes.

"Something big is happening, Beatrice.  Something is wrong."  His eyes are wide and glassy.  "I don't know what it is, but people keep rushing around talking quietly and Jeanine gives speeches about how corrupt Abnegation is all the time, almost every day."

The visit doesn't end well when Tris calls the Erudite arrogant and greedy.  She tells him that their mom wants him to research the simulation serum, but is then taken away by security.  They take her to Jeanine Matthews office where she is asked about her aptitude test results and simulation records.  To get out of there Tris pretends to agree with Jeanine about agreeing with the articles that the Erudite have been publishing.  She also has to pretend to be a cocky Dauntless initiate.

Finally, she is let go.  When she returns to the Dauntless compound Eric is waiting for her.  He threatens to reconsider her ranking but Four is there to save her...again.  He says that Tris tried to kiss him but he rejected her and she ran off because she was embarrassed. Eric believes it and let's Tris go with a warning.  After Eric leaves Four asks if Tris is okay.  Of course she isn't!  She failed at the fear landscape, you embarrassed her, she came face to face with Jeanine, and your ignoring her.  Four explains that he can't show he cares or else people will think that her ranking is from his favoritism instead of her skill.

Later that night, Tris meets Four at the train station.  Four tells Tris that he came across files with war plans in them.  The Erudite are preparing for a war and somehow plan on getting the Dauntless to fight for them.

This is the place where Tris and Caleb talked.

Chapter 27

The next day Tris is in a really good mood, but that ends when Four doesn't even glance at her.  Jerk.  Later that day all the initiates go through one fear landscape.  Tris is assigned kidnapping.  When it is her turn to go into the simulation she starts to freak out, because the kidnapping reminds her of when Peter and Al attacked her. 

I knew they would come back for me; I knew they would try again.  The first time was not enough.  I scream again-not for help, because kn one will help me, but because that's what you do when you're about to die and you can't stop it.

Tris can't get her emotions under control so Four has to stop the simulation. 

"What the hell was that, Stiff?"

"I..."  My breath comes in a hiccup.  "I didn't-"

"Get yourself together!  This is pathetic."

Tris then proceeds to punch him in the face then walks out of the simulation room.  I don't blame her.  She just got humiliated in front of all the initiates and he comes in and start berating her.  Not cool.