Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer

So this week between homework, and rowing two hours every day, and reading Fahrenheit 451, I'll admit I haven't had much time to read. In fact I only got about 30 pages farther into the book, but I’ll try to make this blog good nonetheless. So, where are we? Oh, right so far in the book Tris left the city that that they grew up in (which we now know is Chicago), she goes to the Bureau and learns that the guy in charge (David) actually gave the serum to Jeanine to control the Dauntless and destroy Abnegation. Wow, the Bureau seems really great, don’t they? Well this is exactly how Tris feels, she is angry, she hates the Bureau and it’s leaders. She wants revenge. David was a good friend of Natalie (Tris’ mom) and he just gave the serum to Jeanine which was responsible for Natalie’s death along with Tris' fathers death.

Later there was an attack on the Bureau and Tris saved David's life. David is thankful that she did so and wants Tris to become a part of the council. Tris accepts the job but for one reason... "If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone." (pg. 324) This quote shows that Tris thinks of the Bureau as her enemy and she only takes the job to get closer and eventually get revenge in some way. She is using her new job as a mask to get the real information and important details.





Have you ever had an enemy that you pretended to be friends with just to get information?

Trust Me

**Spoilers if you are not through page 307 in Allegiant**

Trust me!

It's such a simple quote. We hear it all the time, in fact just today I heard two different people say it. But if your life is in danger, or if the trust goes against everything you believe, would you be able to trust someone? Would you trust a relative, friend, boyfriend/ girlfriend with your life?

I am currently reading Allegiant and I am about halfway through the book. Throughout the series there have been many instances where the two main characters, Tris and Tobias- also in a relationship, have had to rely on trust alone. In the last book, Insurgent, Tris betrays Tobias by working with his enmy (aka. dad) to get important information that she believes could save their city. Tris has a constant struggle with herself becuase she knows that when Tobias finds out she will lose his trust. She eventually does release the information but she nearly loses Tobias.

In allegiant Tobias finds out he is genetically damaged. The genetically damaged (or GD) are treated as lesser human beings in relation to the genetically pure (or GP). Tobias and a group of a few others think this is unfair and rebel against the Bureau (government city). Tris started out in this group but ended up leaving it becuase she didn't trust the motives of the leaders. Tris tried to get Tobias to leave too, but he didn't believe her and ended up helping an attack take place and got into alot more trouble than he realized he was going to get into. "I was right. I was right, and you didn't listen. Again."(pg. 300) This is Tris talking to Tobias after the attack. She points out the fact that again she was right and Tobias didn't have enough trust in her to believe her. This untrust caused an attack to be played out, many of people hospitalized, and a major injury to one of his friends. This also causes Tris to be so horrified at him that she won't even look at him. "He's one of the last friends I have. I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at you the same way again."(pg. 301)

Trust is important; but we need to be careful about who we give it to.

Book Review: Insurgent

  
      Last trimester I read Divergent and Insurgent, both by Veronica Roth. Today I am going to write a review of the second book, Insurgent. Insurgent is about a girl, Tris, who is trying to find a way out of her crumbling life. She is Divergent which means she is harder to be controlled by the bad rulers. She cannot be controlled by the serums; the serums can control you and forse you to do  things that you wouldn't have done while awake. The ruler of the Erudite, Jeanine, uses these serums to take control of the city and force everyone to follow her. Jeanine trys to wpe out the entire population of divergents because she says they are a threat to society. In Insurgent, Tris escapes her faction and goes to other factions to hide from the Erudite. The people of the factions spread into three groups, people who agree with Erudite, the people who are against Jeanine, and the people that are neutral. Tris and her friends go back to Dauntless, where she lives, and try to get ready for war. Tris desides to sacrifice herself by going to Erudite to save everyone, but her boyfriend, Tobias, ended up following her and gets captured too. Tris escapes Erudite because someone who pretended to hate her ended up switching the poison with a temporary paralizing serum. She then re-awakens and runs away with the three, her Tobias and the person who helped her, Peter. When she gets back to the faction she ends up betraying Tobias to find some information that she belives will solve all the problems. The book ends with her releasing the information.

       Ok, well now you know what happened, I'll give my rating of the book! Out of 1-10, I rate the book as a 9. I love the book very much and the author does an amazing job at getting you attached to the characters so you actually feel as if you are the character. I love books that are full of action, and from my summary you can tell that this book is almost nonstop action! Insurgent is full of cliff-hangers and betrayals and much more. The book is very good and I believe eveyone who likes storys with action would like the book.