My Review

Divergent was a great book, it has now became one of my favorties because I love action packed books, that draw your attention and make you want to read it all in one day! Doesn't everyone?? Divergent is one of these books! The ending isn't bad at all in my opinion, it makes me want to read the second book, which is good for the author because it will make her more money! Veronica Roth created a whole new society, an unstoppable plot that I thought was very original. The dystopian theme has interested me from Hunger games to Divergent. The cliffhanger ending makes you addicted to reading more. Through all the heartbreaks and dangerous secrets, I really got attached to the characters in the book, I had to remind myself it's just a book after reading how Tris' mother died. The setting was perfect, Chicago is my favorite city so it was thrilling to hear Roth's idea of it in another time. The lovey dovey stuff does get a little old in the last chapter, some say that the whole book was ruined by it. I really don't think it was ruined, it added more to the roller coaster of emotions of this book! This book has a little bit of everything, action, love, science, and more. I definently reccomend this book, I think that anyone who decides to read it won't regret it!

 Even though the movie won't be half as good as the book, I still look forward to seeing it!

 

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Chapter 39

The shot doesn't come, he is Divergent, he can fight the simulation, that's what Divergents do! Their is a fault in Jeanine's serum. He steps forward and hugs Tris, he escaped the simulation because he heard her voice. They study the control room, monitors are focused on different parts of the compound, one on Marcus, Peter, and Caleb, surrounded by guards. Quickly Tobias presses the screen a few times and all the soldiers click off. Some soldiers on the screen sink to their knees, some scream, some run. Tris and Tobias grab the data out of the computer which is a shiny floppy disk, I don't undertsand how Jeanine created this incredible, furturistic, brainwashing simulation, and it's all on a floppy disk??? like what!!! but anyways they take the disk and leave, passing the body of Tris' father. She pukes at the sight and pulls herself away, nothing can stop Tris! Once they reach Caleb, Marcus and Peter, Marcus embraces Tobias. Tobias freezes as Tris tells Marcus to step away, threatening to shoot him! They then all make their way towards the tracks and get a ride to Amity. On the train, Tobias tells Tris he loves her!! The author also throws in at then end of the book that Marcus eyes the program Tris holds in her pocket, which makes me think he will be in the next book. The story ends with Tris realizing what she truly is, divergent, she will never belong to one faction.

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

Everyone said they hated the ending of this book, but I really didn't think it was too bad, it leaves you wanting more like all good Authors should, to make you want to read the next book!

Chapter 38

Tobias commands Tris to drop her weapon, he's going to murder her!! She drops her weapon and runs at him, twisting his wrist so that he drops his gun. It's weird how Tobias taught her to fight and now she is using that against him, well not really him, brain dead him. Tobias attacks Tris, and she points his gun at him. She begs him to come out of the simulation, "please see me, Tobias please!" No use, he scowls at her. She can't kill him, she won't, it's like one of her simulations where she had to shoot her family. For a second I think she's going to shoot him, to save the city! But her simulation ended in her killing herself,  not her family, and this is how her life is going to really end as well, saving her loved ones. She gives the gun to Tobias and he pushes the barrel into her forehead and clicks the bullet into it's chamber. Will this be the end for Tris? of course not, there is another chapter.

Tris' final last thoughts, maybe???? "Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I don't know. I don't know. Please."   

Chapter 37

Caleb, Marcus, and her father come with Tris. They catch a train to the Dauntless compound, (the others struggle to jump on the train like Tris her first time). They then have to jump onto and off of the roof which they also struggle with, they probably think Tris is pretty badass by now. They get to the Pit safely, until they walk into the light. Someone shoots at them, Tris creeps along side the light to surprise the attacker, Peter!! Peter is awake, but why? She punches him to the ground, with a gun to his head, she questions him. He tells her that the Dauntless leaders evaluated his records and removed him form the simulation. I think they were planning on making him a leader as well, a mini Eric. Tris shoots his arm, and he tells her that she has to take him with her or else he won't tell her the information she needs. I wouldn't trust him! He tells them to go to the glass building, eighth floor. Tris' dad is a little surprised  by all of this, probably because he just watched his tattoo covered daughter shoot someone, but now is not the time to be concerned, they have a city to save! Assending the stairs, Tris has to kill a few guards, except one who nods her on, he is Divergent. This is where they separate, Tris and her father continue the journey to the control room leaving the rest safe in a hallway. The elevator they took opens to two guards, armed. Tris' father runs down the right hallway without one word, they shoot him. Tris has to continue one, even though she has lost both her parents. She reaches the control room and of course their is a brainwashed zombie guard there, TOBIAS!!!!!!!!!

"Every second I waste means another Abnegation dead and another Dauntless made into a murderer, I've realized that. Now it's your turn." -Tris to her father

Chapter 36

She reaches the building where the rest of her family lies. She tells them the bad news, she catches them up on what's happening as they stitch her arm up. Caleb also caught Tris up, he researched the simulation and found out what Jeanine was trying to do, he dropped out of initiation and became faction less, well he became Abnegation which I bet his father loved. The room is filled with other Abnegations taking shelter, one of them, evil Marcus. They all come up with a plan. They are going to wake the soldiers up. They must find the computers that controls the program and destroy it. Tris remembers what Jeanine was talking about on the phone, the control room is where it's at! They decide to split up, anyone who can fire a gun and isn't afraid of heights, comes with Tris, the others continue on to seek safety with Amity. I think this is a great plan but I don't see the need for Marcus to come along and neither does Tris!

"I guess I am what I've always been. Not Dauntless, not Abnegation, not faction less, Divergent." -Tris

Chapter 35

Tris awakes to find one of her worst fears to come alive, she is in a glass tank filling with water, this time she can't break it. A camera is in the corner of the tank. She sobs, helplessly, she screams trying to break the glass. She decides she is going to die a brave death, she is not a coward. She stares at the camera, she wants them to see how brave she is. She makes herself forget she's dying, she thinks happy thoughts, she lets the water take her. The suffocating is painful but she stays calm... now she seems fearless! The glass suddenly cracks and her mother is holding a gun on the outside, with two dead Dauntless guards at her feet, her Dauntless is showing!! They run together, killing Dauntless guards on the way, which is probably hard for Tris to see, knowing these were her members, innocent people, just brainwashed. Natalie, Tris' mother found her by watching the trains ever since the attack, always intending to save her. Tris' father and brother are safe in a basement of a building.. Did Natalie tell them she left to go save Tris? Natalie then explains to Tris that she was Divergent herself! She was born Dauntless and on choosing day she chose Abnegation, to save herself from being killed if the Dauntless discovered what she was. Natalie explains that Divergents are threats to leaders because every faction conditions its members to think act a certain way, for the Dauntless it's hard for them to obey this. They can't be confined to one way of thinking which scares the leaders. They will always be trouble.

When the Dauntless guards find them, Natalie tells Tris to go to her father and brother. She tells Tris to be brave and sprints into the street without another thought, creating a distraction for the guards. She sacrificed herself for Tris, this was brave and selfless. The guards shoot Natalie and Tris is hysterical, but she gets back up and keeps running... her mother did NOT just die for nothing.
She reaches the building where the rest of her family lies. She tells them the bad news, she catches them up on what's happening as they stitch her arm up. Caleb also caught Tris up, he researched the simulation and found out what Jeanine was trying to do, he dropped out of initiation and became faction less, well he became Abnegation which I bet his father loved. The room is filled with other Abnegations taking shelter, one of them, Marcus. They all come up with a plan. They are going to wake the soldiers up. They must find the computers that controls the program and destroy it. Tris remembers what Jeanine was talking about on the phone, the control room is where it's at! They decide to split up, anyone who can fire a gun and isn't afraid of heights, comes with Tris, the others continue on to seek safety with Amity.

"Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming." -Tris

Chapter 34

Four and Tris are led to Abnegation headquarters. Entering an office, Jeanine is at the desk talking on the phone saying something about how something needs to be guarded because it's the most important part. She gets off the phone and starts to talk about how she knew her serum was immune to Divergents, but she made a new batch to TEST. I immediately think that she won't kill Tris and Four, she will make them join her army, that's what all bad guys do anyways! I was wrong, she decides to test the batch on Four because she needs to see if it works on Divergents. She needs to control Divergents because once the Erudite and the Dauntless leaders take over the government, the Abnegation will need to be controlled, which are mostly Divergents. For some reason, most of the Divergents come from Abnegation. I think this is because Abnegation has a little bit of every faction in them, leaving their children to pick different things in the Aptitude test. Those who refuse to accept her leadership will be closely monitored. So that leaves crippled Tris to be killed. Four tells her that he will take her place, but they give him no choice, he then leaps at Jeanine and two guards drag him off, injecting the serum within him. It comes into affect, and he no longer knows Tris, he thinks she's an enemy, he tries to choke her. For a second I think that Jeanine is going to let him, that would be Tris' last memory, being killed by someone she loves the most in her life. The guards pull him off of Tris and send him to the control room. Tris is then dragged to her execution room, B13. 

Four on his dad, "At least his evil didn't involve the widespread manipulation of an entire faction and the systematic murder of every policitcal leader we have."