The End.....?

                               Is this the End???

           Initiation day comes, and the Dauntless compound is in chaos. When she mindlessly picks Abnegation food for lunch, Tris realizes that no matter what she does, she will always be Abnegation, and wonders again if she chose the wrong faction. But she's determined to focus only on what she has to do today, despite her misgivings. In the Pit, they can see the current initiate going through their landscape, though they can't see specifically what fears they face. 
           When Tris gets there, Marlene's test is on view. She then goes to the waiting room, and is told that she will go last, because she's ranked first. After everyone else goes, Eric injects her with the simulation. Her first fear is the field of crows again, and she realizes it isn't about the birds at all; it's about control. She knows she needs to feel powerful if she's going to get past this fear, and she feels most powerful with her gun. It appears, and she shoots the birds. Next is the glass tank full of water, and she realizes she must face her fear of weakness and an inability to escape. She convinces herself that she's strong enough to break the glass with her hands, and she does. Then she finds herself in an ocean, waves coming at her from every angle, and she loses control completely. She focuses hard and pulls herself out of the water and onto a nearby rock, and the scene changes again. Her arms and legs are bound by rope as the group of initiates, led by Peter, set a fire beneath her. She's terrified, but she focuses on the clouds above her and eventually it starts to rain. The scene changes again and she's in her bedroom in Abnegation, with one of her walls covered by mirrors. Outside is the man who appeared in her aptitude test, along with two other men, and they're there to kidnap and kill her. She hears more and more hands pounding at the window. She envisions her gun and then has it, and begins to shoot the men, but runs out of bullets too fast. She tries to calm down as they come at her, and she crawls into the closet and the scene fades. Suddenly Tobias is standing in front of her, and behind them is a four poster bed. He kisses her and begins to tug at her jacket zipper, and Tris realizes she fears intimacy and affection. She realizes the only way to stop this is to tell simulation-Tobias she isn't going to do that, then kisses him and he disappears. Then she's faced with the simulation in which she must shoot her family - and this time Jeanine is threatening her to do it. Remembering that Tobias said selflessness is similar to bravery, she shoots herself instead. Tris is back in the simulation room, and Eric congratulates her on completing her final assessment. He says he also must inject her with a tracking device, courtesy of Erudite. She's suspicious, but she knows she can't refuse. He tells her her ranking will be announced at the welcoming banquet with the other initiates. 
         Tobias comes up to Tris and says he wasn't allowed to watch the simulation, but he heard a rumor that she only had seven fears to face, and that the Dauntless leaders who watched were impressed. Then he invites her to come stay with him until the banquet, and she accepts. But when she goes back to his room with him, she's clearly unsettled; finally she asks him why he wants to be with her. She admits that he was an obstacle in her fear landscape, because she's afraid of being with him. Tobias insists that this is all new to him, too. They kiss, and he spots her new tattoo covered up. When Tris tells him it's the Abnegation seal, he says he has the same one on his back and shows her. His back is covered with tattoos, including the symbols of each faction. He tells her that he thinks they've all made a mistake in putting down the virtues of the other factions, because it's important to be all, not one.
          They head to the dining hall and meet Christina, and they discuss the jobs they'd like to have after initiation. Christina says she wants to train initiates, and Tris says she'd like to be an ambassador to the other factions. Peter and Will both want to be Dauntless leaders. Christina asks Tris why the Dauntless leaders were laughing during her fear landscape, and after Christina notices she's lying, she admits she's afraid of intimacy. Eric makes a speech, announcing that tomorrow their ten newest members will choose their professions. Then he reveals the rankings - Tris is first, followed by Uriah, Lynn, Marlene, Peter, Will, Christina, and three other Dauntless-borns. Both Molly and Drew are cut. Tris and Tobias kiss, which makes Will and Christina stare.
         When Tobias touches the injection site on Tris's neck she realizes that the shot wasn't a tracking device at all. The serum they injected is how the Erudite plans to control the Dauntless and get them to fight. Tris doesn't get a chance to warn Tobias in the midst of all the excitement. She wakes in the middle of the night to a peculiar sight; everyone in the dorm is awake and moving robotically, like they're sleepwalking. They start to leave the dorm, moving in unison, so Tris joins them and does the same to blend in. They march into the Pit, where the Dauntless leader Max watches them. They all pick up guns, and she realizes that the injections they received yesterday make them brain-dead soldiers, ready to kill. 
          As they march, she makes a pact to get to the Abnegation sector and save her family, whatever it takes. The Dauntless leaders are all awake, watching. Tris realizes that she must be awake because she's Divergent, so if her suspicions about Tobias are true, he will be awake as well. She spots him in the train car and at first thinks he's under the simulation like everyone else, but then he discreetly squeezes her hand and she knows the truth. They get to the Abnegation sector, and war begins with gunshots. One by one more and more Abnegation drop dead. They pass by Eric, and he pokes at Tris's injection site, remarking on how insane it is that none of them can process anything that's occurring. He puts a trigger to Tobias's head, planning on "accidentally" shooting him, but Tris pulls out her own gun and points it at Eric's head immediately. 
        While trying to get away, Tris is shot in the shoulder, and they're surrounded by Dauntless soldiers. They're led into Abnegation headquarters, where they're presented to Jeanine as Divergent rebels. She says she expected this of Tris, but Tobias being Divergent surprised her, since there were no signs. She says she thinks it's because his Divergence is weaker, and he really does belong in Abnegation. She says she wants to test another batch of the simulation on them to see if they can still resist. She also questions why all the Divergent seem to be from Abnegation. She explains her plans: she wants to overthrow the Abnegation administration, and she promised the Dauntless leaders a place in her new government. She wants the remains of Abnegation to be absorbed into the Dauntless army. She returns again to the problem of Divergence, and says she's created a new serum that will adjust their surroundings to manipulate their will. Tobias will be the first test subject, but Jeanine says Tris is too injured to be of use, so she will be executed in the morning. Tobias says he would rather die, but of course, Jeanine tells him he doesn't have a choice. He kisses Tris and then lunges across the desk and wraps his hands around Jeanine's throat, which makes the Dauntless guards jump at him.
          Jeanine sticks Tobias with a syringe, and he falls under the simulation. He thinks Tris is an enemy rather than a friend, and tries to strangle her. They're both taken to separate rooms, and when Tris fights back, the guard knocks her unconscious. She wakes in the corner of a huge tank, still bleeding. There's a tube in the floor, and she realizes with a jolt of panic that she could drown in this tank, one of her worst fears. She screams and pounds on the glass as water begins to trickle in. It rises, and she tries to force herself to remain calm and breathe. As she's beginning to drown, someone comes in and breaks the glass with a bullet, and she realizes it's her mother. Dauntless guards lie dead at the door. Natalie Prior was indeed Dauntless. Her mom says that her father and Caleb are safe and hiding in a basement, and that she had been keeping an eye on the trains since the attacks started. Tris tries to get over the shock of her mother's hidden past, but then Mrs. Prior reveals that she's Divergent also, and she was only safe because her mother was a Dauntless leader who told her to switch to a safer faction. 
            She explains that the Divergent are terrifying to the leaders of the factions because their minds move in different directions, therefore they can't be controlled, so they must be obliterated. As they're moving to the basement location, a group of Dauntless soldiers gain on them. Mrs. Prior tells Tris to go to the basement in the alley on the right and knock a certain number of times to get in while she distracts the soldiers. After telling Tris she loves her, Mrs. Prior runs straight at the soldiers and fires at them, getting hit in the abdomen in the process. She falls to the ground and dies; she has sacrificed herself so that Tris can escape.
            The Dauntless soldiers chase Tris, and fires at them. Tris is horrified to realize that Will is among them. She hesitates, but his gun is pointed at her, so she does the only thing she can and shoots him in the head. His smiling face appears in her mind as she screams and sobs, realizing what she's done. But she makes it to her family's hideout, knocks on the door, and Caleb appears. He's wearing gray again, not Erudite blue. They hug and he takes her inside to deal with the gunshot wound in her shoulder. There are a handful of Abnegation there, including Marcus Eaton. But the pain in her shoulder is pressing. 
            Caleb explains that he researched the simulation serum like their mother told him and found out what Jeanine was planning, and dropped out of Erudite initiation at once. Her father asks where her mother is, and Tris admits quietly that she sacrificed herself. Marcus says their safest bet is to go to the Amity compound. He asks Tris about the Dauntless strategy, and she explains that they have none; they're being completely mind controlled and have been sleepwalking through the entire battle. Tris decides that the only way to end this is to wake the Dauntless up, and to do that they need to find the computer program that controls the simulation and destroy it. She realizes it must be in the Dauntless control room, because that was where Jeanine sent Tobias. Caleb, Marcus, and Andrew Prior accompany Tris to Dauntless, and for everyone but Tris, jumping onto the moving train proves very difficult. Marcus assumes she now regrets choosing Dauntless, but Tris denies it, saying there were some things she needed to learn - including how to be selfless, as selflessness is bravery. 
             The group has to jump off the train onto a roof, just as Tris did on her first day as an initiate. Then they have to jump down onto the net, which predictably Caleb, Marcus, and Mr. Prior have trouble with. They sneak into the compound, but someone begins to shoot at them, and Tris realizes that the guard is Peter. He's awake, and when Tris puts a gun to his head and asks him why, he says the Dauntless leaders evaluated his records and removed him from the simulation. With the gun still at his head, she asks him where the computers that control the simulation are. When he refuses, she shoots him in the arm. He says the only way he'll tell her is if she takes him with her, because the Dauntless will kill him. They head for the glass building above the Pit, and Tris and her father argue over whether or not she had the right to shoot someone. Tris says that violence is necessary to ensure their safety, and watches as she shoots at the next set of guards. Finally there's only one guard left, and when Tris has two guns pointed at him, he jerks his chin to the side, telling her to go. She realizes he must be Divergent. She gives everyone the all-clear and tells Caleb and Marcus to stay and watch Peter, then goes off in the elevator with her father.  Both Tris and her father shoot at the guards and then advance. However, Mr. Prior is shot in the stomach and slumps to the floor. Helpless, Tris watches her father die. 
             Tris is devastated, but she knows she has to keep going. She makes it to the control room, which consists of a wall covered with screens showing different scenes in the city. In front of a screen streaming code sits a Dauntless soldier - Tobias. Tobias, still stuck in the simulation that makes him think Tris is his enemy, tells Tris to drop her weapon or he'll fire. She does, but he continues to command her to, unaware that she already has. She refuses to shoot him and instead continues to say his name, because she knows he's in there somewhere. He begins to falter, and she knows she can't kill him. She thinks of her father's words, that there is power in self-sacrifice, and places the gun in Tobias's hands. He presses it against her forehead, and she's prepared to die. There is no shot. Tobias stares at Tris. Knowing he's fighting the simulation, she wraps her arms around him, and he drops the gun, says her name, and kisses her: it's him again. Tris asks how he was able to break out of the simulation, but he says he doesn't know; he just heard her voice.
             They look at one of the screens and see Dauntless soldiers surrounding Marcus, Caleb, and Peter, and Tobias runs to the code screen and taps it a few times, and then all the sudden the soldiers go still. Tobias extracts the data to make sure the simulation can't be run again. They return to the group and Caleb runs at her the moment the elevator reaches the ground, and when he asks about their dad and she shakes her head, says he would've wanted it that way, anyway. Tris realizes she didn't warn Tobias about Marcus, and when Marcus sees him, he tries to wrap his arms around him, which makes Tobias wince. Tris warns him to stay away from Tobias, because she knows the Erudite report about him was true. 
            It's time for the group to get out of Dauntless fast, and they decide to take the train to the Amity compound to catch up with the others who escaped. Tris thinks about all the people she loves, all her friends out there somewhere just freed of the simulation. She knows Christina will find Will's body, and never forgive Tris for shooting him. On the train, she tells Tobias that her parents died today, and died for her, and Tobias says to them, there was no better way to show they loved her. He asks why Tris didn't shoot him, and she says because it would've been like shooting herself. The novel ends with Tobias telling Tris he might be in love with her, and Tris pulls out the hard drive with the simulation data and sees Marcus staring at it greedily. Tris knows their battle has just begun. 

      "Can I be forgiven for all that I've done to get here?" (Roth, 476)

I can't say I love this quote, but I also can't say I don't. It shows what Tris feels and that she realizes her errors, that to me, is a brave thing to do. We can tell that Tris is being puzzled, confused and messed with because all her emotions and thoughts are combined. Tris feels like she doesn't deserve anything and that her mistakes are the worst kind, which she's wrong. Everybody makes mistakes, everybody can be forgiven. It wasn't Tris's fault that she shot Will, she was under so much pressure that she couldn't get the hang of things, she just let go. And I can relate to that.

      "I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either" (Roth, 487)

 I have to say, this is my favourite quote in the entire book. Tris is now fully developed and understands what is going on. She can feel that she is Divergent, something she can't change, something that they can't control. Tris knows that, now, she is much more than being brave or selfless or smart, she is Divergent. Tris accepts that she can't be brave and selfless, she has to be more. She can't be one thing while she is the other. Tris is more, Tris is Divergent.

                               This can't be it!

Unfortunately, all things come to an end. It was fun to see all of the characters progression and development. I enjoyed reading this book, especially because it is appealing to me. Roth can actually make me relate to Tris and her trouble as a teenager. The factions are broken, the system is broken. Nothing will be the way it was before and nothing will be going the way that they want it to be, both. Tris has become much more than just being part of a faction, Tris has become Divergent, and I can't wait to read Insurgent!

Mind-Blown!

                                   Wait, What Now?

          In Tris' simulations in the past few days, she's faced four different fears: Peter setting her on fire, drowning in an ocean, her family bleeding to death, and being forced to shoot her family. The following day, she faces that final simulation again, and tells Four that she misses1. She asks if Four misses his family, too, but he doesn't; this makes Tris curious. She wonders again if he is Divergent. When returning to the dormitory, Tris receives a shock: she is ranked first after stage two. Peter is second, but while his average simulation time is eight minutes, hers is only two minutes and forty-five seconds. Al is ranked last. Peter freaks out and insists that Tris is trying to manipulate them in some way. Will defends her, but after Peter leaves Will asks her if he was right. Both Will and Christina storm out of the room as well, and only a hopeless Al is left. 
Some of the Dauntless-born initiates, Uriah, Marlene, and Lynn, come to congratulate Tris. 
          When getting a drink of water in the middle of the night, Tris overhears a conversation between Eric and someone else about whether or not she is Divergent. Then all the sudden a hand clamps over her mouth and a dark cloth is put over her eyes; Peter and two other people kidnap her. She matches the smell of the hand over her mouth with the smell of Al's bunk. She fights as they take her near to the Chasm, and then, all the sudden, someone comes and defends Tris: Four. Tris wakes up in a small room, and sees Four washing blood off of his knuckles. Four explains that he dropped Drew off at the infirmary, and Peter and Al ran; Drew insisted that they were only trying to scare Tris. Four offers to report this, but Tris refuses; she doesn't want them to think she's scared. She's hurt from Al's betrayal. Four says he hurt her because her strength made him feel weak. He adds that it wouldn't hurt her to pretend to be vulnerable. He tells her that it's more important for her to be safe than to be right, but asks her to ruin them when the time comes. He also tells her not to call him Four, but doesn't offer an alternative - yet. Tris sleeps in Four's bed that night, not wanting to sleep in the same room as the people who attacked her. In the dark, while staring at him sleeping, she admits that she likes him. 
           The next day, Tris wakes up and goes to the dining hall. She sits down with Will and Christina, and Uriah joins her; all three stare at her wounds. Tris says the names of her attackers. They're shocked to hear Al included. Eventually Drew comes into the dining hall, even more beat up than Tris is, and Four smiles in satisfaction. Uriah decides that the only thing they can do about this is edge them all out of the rankings. On the way to training, Christina apologizes to Tris for the way she acted. Four leads them on a climb all the way up through the pit, and announces that today they will face a different kind of simulation: the fear landscape. They have stored data about each initiate's worst fears, and they will have to get through a simulation of all of them. The number of fears they face will correspond to the number of fears they have. The following week, they will go through their fear landscape as fast as possible in front of a panel of Dauntless, which will determine final ranking.             Back in the dorm, Al asks to talk to Tris, trying to apologize. She does not accept; she tells him to stay away from her and never come near her again. Christina wakes Tris in the middle of a dream about her mother, and takes her to the edge of the Chasm where workers are hauling something up from its depths. To Tris's shock, it's a body - Al. He pitched himself over the edge, killing himself. Tris leaves Christina on the ground and runs away. She goes to the tattoo parlor, where Tori gives her peppermint tea to drink as the funeral begins. 
           She asks Tori how long it took her to be okay again after her brother died, and Tori responds that sometimes she still doesn't feel okay. They head to the funeral; in Dauntless, a funeral is a raucous, drunken occasion in which the life is celebrated rather than mourned. Eric plasters on a false smile and makes a speech about the bravery it takes to venture into the unknown of death. Tris, however, disagrees; she thinks it would've been braver to just admit weakness and leave Dauntless. She leaves the funeral early and runs into Four. During her fit of rage, Four grabs her and warns her that the Dauntless leaders are watching her closely. He says he keeps trying to help her, but she refuses to be helped. He also warns her that her selfless instinct is dangerous, and Tris accuses him of always trying to protect her. He denies it, and says his first instinct is to push her until she breaks, because he's fascinated by the way fear wakes her up rather than shuts her down. For the first time, they truly embrace, and Tris wonders aloud whether if she'd forgiven him, Al would still be alive. Four says she has to use the guilt to remind her to do better next time, a mantra drilled into the heads of Abnegation children, which makes Tris asks what faction he actually came from. He refuses to say. Tris makes a drastic decision to get a tattoo of the Abnegation seal, because she feels it's still a part of her identity. Afterwards, she, Will and Christina go stand over the Chasm and throw down every report that Erudite made about Abnegation. They discuss Jeanine Matthews, the Erudite representative, and Tris asks Will's opinion on everything she's saying. He suggests that it might be a good idea for multiple factions to run the government, rather than just one, which makes Tris a little touchy. She also notices the beginnings of a relationship between Will and Christina. Later, Tris catches up with Four, who invites her into his fear landscape. Before they go in, he tells her to see if she can figure out why they call him Four, and if she can figure out his real name. 
            In the first part of the landscape they're on top of a building, reflecting his fear of heights, and they have to jump off. Next they're trapped inside a small room, representing his fear of confinement, and they have to scrunch up tight in order to pass this stage. They're closer than they've ever been, both physically and emotionally, and Tris makes him talk about the origin of this fear. Four tells her he was punished as a child by being forced into the small upstairs closet. Next, a woman is pointing a gun at them, and on a table next to them is another gun; Four must kill her. Then finally, he has to face a man that Tris recognizes: Marcus Eaton, one of the Abnegation representatives. She realizes that Four is really Tobias Eaton, the boy who transferred to Dauntless. 

Marcus begins to beat Tobias with a belt, and Tris steps in its path. She grabs the belt and swings it towards Marcus instead. Then the landscape ends, and Tris realizes that he only has four fears: that's why they call him Four. Tobias tells Tris that his four fears have not changed since he arrived in Dauntless. She asks about his aptitude test results, and he says that his result was Abnegation, and explains that he chose Dauntless to get away from his father. He mentions that part of the reason he didn't want to be a Dauntless leader is because he still sometimes feels like he doesn't belong among the Dauntless. He tells Tris his theory that selflessness and bravery aren't very different, and Tris admits that she left Abnegation because she wasn't selfless enough. But he reminds her of the times she's shown selflessness - when she stood in front of the knife target for Al, or her interference in his fear landscape. Tobias admits that he likes her after a deep conversation. Then they kiss for the first time, and it occurs to Tris that if they had both chosen to remain in Abnegation, they might be doing the same thing in gray clothes instead of black. 
          Tris is in a great mood the next morning, and as she goes to the dining hall she expects to spend the meal with Tobias. But when he walks in he completely ignores her. The initiates discuss fear landscape day, and Uriah tells them they'll be seeing an instructor's landscape today. Christina says she hopes it's Four's, but Tris insists that it won't be him, because she knows he won't want them to see his father. It turns out to be Lauren's landscape that they view; she tells them that a normal person will have between ten and fifteen fears. The lowest number someone has gotten in recent years is four -Tobias, obviously. Each initiate faces one of Lauren's fears, and Tris gets kidnapping. It's too much for her to handle, and she screams and screams until they stop the simulation, as Lauren's fear of kidnapping has become one of her own. In front of everyone, Tobias tells her to get herself together, and that her response was pathetic. 
           Tris decides that it's time to go to visit Caleb. She sneaks out without supervision and heads for Erudite headquarters. The main Erudite building is a library, complete with a huge portrait of Jeanine Matthews. She goes up to a desk and asks to see her brother, but the person in charge insists that he can't give out personal information. Then all the sudden Caleb's behind her, calling her name. He's wearing glasses and a blue t-shirt. He's shocked by the way Beatrice looks and acts and asks her if she made the right choice, but she denies that there was even a right choice to begin with. Tris says his faction's corrupt, but they continue to disagree, and Caleb tells her to leave. Before she does, she tells him their mother said to research the simulation serum, and he's jealous that she saw her; he was unaware that the Erudite were barring Abnegation visitors from their compound. Before Tris can leave, she's taken away by two Erudite men. She's taken to Jeanine Matthews herself, and she recognizes the woman's voice from her aptitude test - and from overheard secret meeting with Eric. Jeanine says that test was her greatest accomplishment as a scientist. She also reveals that Tris and Tobias were the only two Abnegation ever to switch to Dauntless. She presses Tris, asking why another one of her simulation tests didn't show in the records. It's obvious to Tris that she's trying to get some proof of her Divergence. Tris insists that her sensitive stomach means that every simulation makes her sick. She begins to weave another lie, saying that she chose Dauntless because she was bored of being good all the time. She says she doesn't miss her family, and Jeanine asks if that means she agrees with all the reports that have been printed about them. Tris swallows her pride and says yes. Tris's escorted back to Dauntless, where Eric greets her menacingly. He accuses her of being a traitor, and threatens to change both her rank and the ranks of her friends. Tobias walks in and intervenes, giving Tris a look that clearly says she must feign vulnerability to get out of this. She lies to Eric and says she ran off because she tried to kiss Tobias and he rejected her. He falls for it and lets her go. She's mad at Tobias for everything at first, but he insists that by ignoring her, he was trying to protect her, because Peter would be raged if he found out they were in a relationship. She forgives him, but then they worry about whether or not her act was satisfactory enough to convince Eric and Jeanine. Christina reveals something big to Tris: Will kissed her. She admits that they really like each other, but also that she sometimes misses Candor, where there was no manipulation and everyone always knows where they stand. 
               That night, Tobias pulls Tris into a train car and while riding the train, they look out and see that the lights of the Erudite buildings are on all night, and they wonder what they're doing that requires constant energy. Tobias admits two things to Tris: that he is very suspicious of people, and that he is very good with computers. Before training started, he found a way into Dauntless files and discovered what looked like war plans, sent by Erudite. They're planning a war on Abnegation, and will use the combat-skilled Dauntless as their soldiers.

                "It's when you are at acting selflessly that you are at your bravest" (Roth, 311)

            This quote made me love it. This explains that Tris is both Abnegation and Dauntless at the same time. This also contradicts my theory about how Abnegation was her lowest percentage of personality. This changes everything! If we follow Four's theory, Abnegation would make up 30% of Tris's personality, Erudite 20%, and Dauntless 50%. I just loved how Roth contradicted and made me build up another percentage of Tris's personality.

                 "Protect Al. My friend. My attacker" (Roth, 312)

          This quote is said after Four explains to her that if she gave up in the knife throwing, Al had to take her place in front of the target. This means that she has to be brave in order to protect others. I think this is a nice quote because, if you think about it, shows that a friend can be turned enemy, or an enemy can be turned friend, or both!(Paradox) Tris wanted to protect Al, even when he betrayed her, and I think that is selfless and brave.

             

                                    I need more!

           In these chapters, Tris had to go through a lot. Her best friend betraying her, having to kill her parents in a simulation, her brother betraying her, and her best friend killing himself! Wow, Tris must be tough. These chapters were just shocking, every minute bringing out a new event and changing not only the story, but myself too. I just loved the chapters and seeing Four, Tobias, developed from a mean instructor, to a loving character. We still have a lot to see, and I cannot wait!

Solving Some Mysteries, and Getting Some New Ones

                         Adventure continues...

Visiting Day has come. Where parents visit their children that are currently in other factions. Tris is 

partially excited about meeting her parents but only her mother shows up. Tris asks her mother about her father but he was selfish and didn't come. Neither Tris' mom or dad can't visit Caleb because Abnegation is not allowed on Erudite grounds. Tris introduces her mother to Four, while she suspects that Four transferred from some other faction, since his family isn't there and he's very stiff when shaking hands. Four tells Mrs. Prior that Tris is doing well, and she remarks that he looks a little familiar, but she can't remember. Tris also introduces her mother to Will and Christina's families, and Will's older sister ,Cara, gives them a rude stare because she is an Erudite and hates Abnegation. Cara accuses Mrs. Prior and Abnegation of stealing the food they deliver to the factionless, while Erudite doesn't get any fresh food. Before Tris can punch her out, Mrs. Prior steers her into a dark and empty hallway. She starts asking Tris questions about the initiation and Tris is puzzled by the fact that Mrs. Prior knows so much about it. Tris' mother asked her what her aptitude tests results were and Tris told her the truth. Mrs. Prior also asks Tris what her ranking is and when she told her she was at the bottom, she was relieved. She warns Tris not to tell anyone and then tells her that she needs to visit Caleb and ask him to research the simulation serum. Leaving Tris completely perplexed, Mrs. Prior goes away and Tris realizes that her mother was Dauntless. 
                   In the dining hall, Tris' friends start noticing that Tris is acting suspicious and ask her what her test results were. Tris said Abnegation, which is partly true, but she gets away with the lie. Tris laid awake, thinking about what had happened, but her thoughts were interrupted by Edward's scream. They turn on the lights and it is revealed that Edward had a blade sticking out his eye and that Peter and Drew were gone.                                 
The next day, after Edward and Myra quit Dauntless, Uriah, a Dauntless-born initiate, asks Tris to go to an initiation ritual. They take the train to a building and Tris discovers a zipline hanging from the top. Tris awaits her turn and was fascinated by the "flying". After this happened, Dauntless admitted she was no longer a "Stiff". It's time for the second stage of initiation, Dauntless-born and transfers will be training together. Four takes Tris into a room and she finds out she's going to be in a simulation. He explains that this stage is meant to face their fears, and it will teach the initiates how to control their emotions in frightening situations. He injects her with the simulation serum, and her vision begins. Tris finds herself in a field of dry grass, and a flock of crows swarm around her and she can't fight them off. Though she's terrified, she tries to calm down because the simulation will continue until she finds a way to calm herself. Then, all of the sudden it's over, and she's back in the metal chair, but she still isn't stable. Tris thinks she's a failure, but Four tells her that she got out of the simulation three times faster than the other initiates did. 
             |Erudite keeps attacking Abnegation and Molly was questioned. She told lies to the press saying that Abnegation was maltreating their kids. Tris got enraged but she went to another simulation after getting a tattoo. In this simulation, Tris was in a glass box that slowly filled with water while her friends and initiates watched her and laughed. She hits the glass and breaks it open. Suddenly, she's back at the chair. Four was amazed and asked her how she broke the glass. He figured out she was a Divergent and told her to hide her Divergence in simulations. Tris heads right to the tattoo parlor to seek Tori and ask what this means. Tori says that Divergent, especially in Dauntless, have a tendency to die, but she says that the Dauntless leaders don't know about Tris yet, so she's safe. Tori tells her the story of her brother, who was Divergent and transferred from Erudite with her. When they found out what he was, they killed him and called it suicide. Tris wonders how Four knows about Divergence, and whether or not he is one. 

           "I throw my arms out to the side and imagine that I was flying" (Roth, 221)

        This quote can resemble many, many things, but I'll cover up some. As I chose this quote, I didn't really know what to write about. Then I read it over, and over again and I realized what it meant. This quote resembles Tris's "Dauntlessness" that has taken over her. She finally knows where she belongs, and doesn't want to leave that place. You can say she found her comfort zone. But what is really important is that she feels free. That feeling she describes is freedom, freedom of choice, freedom of manipulation. She was trapped in a little cocoon and now she's a butterfly. This quote also makes me feel that way. I love how Roth makes us compare to Tris and feel her emotions. 

           "Peace is restrained; this is free" (Roth, 250) 

         This quote is basically the same as the last one, but it focuses more on the freeness part. Tris thinks that in Abnegation she is restrained and cannot be who she wants to be. In Dauntless, however, she feels that she can be that person, she can be anyone. I think that it's her Divergence acting up, making her feel that way, because it was stated that she is Abnegation, Dauntless, and Erudite. Based on these facts we can say that Abnegation makes up about 20% of her personality, Erudite  is 27% and Dauntless 53%. This means she is more Dauntless than she is both Erudite and Abnegation, but I only based myself on what I read. Do you want to do the math? No problem.

                                  Really? That's it?

       

           These chapters were fairly interesting, my favorite part was when I learned Mrs. Prior was Dauntless. Completely blew my mind! Anyway, it was fun to see Tris develop and come out of her "cocoon". I'm happy that she feels like she belongs and she's no longer a Stiff. But still, the chapter left some questions unanswered like, Why are Divergents so dangerous?, or, How can Divergents control simulations?. These questions were all plotted and I believe will be answered in the next chapters. There is still one question that I think bothers us all, Is Four Divergent? 

Training To Fight

                                           Stage One

          After the previous chapters, Tris begins Stage 1 with her friends, Christina, Al, and Will. They follow Four with the other transfers into the Pit, the center of Dauntless HQ. IN a banquet, Tris and her group also meet a Dauntless Leader called Eric, he was transferred from Erudite and he is not a likable person. Eric explains the first stage of initiation, it is a ranked system which evaluate the transfers and Dauntless-borns (trained separately) to determine the "jobs" they will be doing after passing. If you failed or didn't get into the top ten, you are factionless. Tris thinks about this at night-time, she fears that she won't be able to pass the rankings (like all the other initiates) and live factionless. The next day, Four explains to the initiates to shoot a gun. Tris feels uncomfortable and terrified because she never hit the target and believed that her parents wouldn't approve of her. Then, Four teaches them how to fight. Four gives Tris some advice that, because she is small and doesn't have much muscle, she should use her elbows and knees more than she does.
             Later, Tris, Christina, Al, and Will go to the Tattoo shop to get Tattoos. Tris got a tattoo from Tori, her aptitude test admin. She got three flying birds, one for each of her family. The next day, Four pairs the initiates to fight. Al and Will, Tris's friends, are the first ones to fight and Al wins. Next is Christina and Molly, Peter's friend, and Molly wins because Christina gave up. Eric was furious for this and made Christina hang onto a bridge, with a deep fall down, as punishment. After that, Tris goes to the ring and has to fight Peter and, finally, Peter won. Tris wakes in the hospital with her friends watching her and keeping her safe. Tris's next fight is against Myra who is the weakest one. Tris wins but doesn't feel triumph, only failure. In the day after, Tris and the initiates go to play Capture The Flag with Paintball guns. Four and Eric were captains, Eric chose the strongest ones but Four chose Tris and her group. Four's group discuss their plan while Tris climbs a Ferris wheel with Four following her. They get a good view of the flag and Tris learns that Four is afraid of heights. They make a new plan and Christina grabs the flag without letting Tris take it (which is different in the movie). After they won, they went target practice with knives. Al misses every knife he threw while Tris excelled at it. Eric made Al stand in front of the target while Four threw knives but Tris offered herself instead of Al. Four cut Tris's ear and eventually stopped. Then, Tris fights

against Molly in the next day. Tris wins but doesn't have mercy on her. She keeps hitting her until Four stops her. Tris changed, she became Dauntless.

     "I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight- toward my heart. One for each member of my family"(Roth, 90)

           I like this quote because it shows how Tris misses her family. It especially shows her love and feelings toward them. I think that it's nice that she got a tattoo for her family because we can all share her feelings in that moment. Roth did a great job at making us feel what Tris felt at that moment and I think that it's just amazing. Also, you can ask yourself the question from my last blog, is this an act of selflessness or selfishness? I, again, think it's an act of solidarity because she demonstrates her love towards them and shows that she feels alone without them.

     "I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't"(Roth, 174)

          I really like this quote because it shows pride, bravery and selfishness which is the opposite of Abnegation.I also think that it is fun to see how Tris is developed and develops her true "Divergent" nature. Even though Tris is also Erudite and Abnegation, I think Dauntless suits her the most, as she will need to be brave in the future and can use the training and tactical skills to fight her enemies. Tris is an amazing character who is often unpredictable due to her "Divergentness" so you never really know what is going to happen to her or how she is going to react to stuff.

                               Well.....what's next?

Reading these chapters really hooked me into the book. It was interesting that Tris shows each of her attributes in her life in Dauntless, like Erudite when she climbed onto the Ferris wheel, or Abnegation when she helped and cared for her friends. Tris is a really interesting character that is strong and smart, but she can also be kind. The chapters demonstrated how Tris started really low and then she rose up from the bottom to the top, as she began to train harder. Maybe Tris will rise to the top in the rankings, who knows?