Man In A Shell

**SPOILER IF YOU HAVEN'T READ 476 IN ALLEGIANT**



You all know what it's like, right? To have a loved boyfriend or girlfriend die?

Ok... maybe not, but I think we all can imagine it. The feeling of being left behind, abandoned. Sorrow.

Well this is what Tobias had to go through when Tris died. I promise, this will not be some long boring rant like some of my past blogs ok, so just stick in here.

When Tobias finds out that Tris dies he goes into shock/ grief/ denial. He also gets very depressed when he accepts the truth. "I squeeze Tris's hand, praying that if I do it hard enough, I will send life back into her body and she will flush with color and wake up. I don't know how long it takes for me to realize that isn't going to happen, that she is gone. But when I do I feel all the strength goes out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more." (pg. 494)

This line is very powerful, to me at least. It shows how much they love each other. Tobias is a strong and independent man, he never ever cries. For him to cry, he must be just devastated. It shows that Tobias may be hard on the outside but he has soft spots for certain people. His biggest soft spot is for Tris so when she dies he is left with an outer shell and a hollowed out inside.

The realization of this makes me, and I'm sure, all of the other readers feel so bad for Tobias. His one true love is gone.

On that happy note I am going to leave you with a question... What book do you guys think I should read next?

To The Author

Dear Veronica Roth,

I just want to start off by saying that I am very disappointed with you. I loved you books, I read the first one, the second one, and now I am almost done with the third one. I loved everything about your books up until page 474 of Allegiant. You totally destroyed any respect that I or any other fan of your books had for you. I am taking a creative writing class and the main point that my teacher stresses is to make your readers connect to the characters. You did that very well; when I read I felt as if I was Tris, I was doing the things she did, I went on the adventures she went on. Then all of a sudden, BOOM!!!! You just killed the millions of people who also read and connected to Tris. You just threw the whole point of being an author out the door. Then stomped on it. Then put it through a paper shredder. Then burned it. If you were trying to rush into an ending because a deadline was coming up, I assure you, you did it as badly as possible. I hated Mocking Jay because it seemed that Collins rushed into an ending. She was in a rush to finish and so she wrote it as quick as possible. It was terrible. Your book was 10X worse. Just wanted to let you know.

From,
A disappointed reader

Surprise!!

***Spoilers through 476 in Allegiant***


WOW!!! Just WOW!!!! Veronica Roth is now officially my least favorite author. Who does that, just who does that!? I knew it was coming because my sister told me, but I still had a piece of me cheering for Tris to live. I mean, this is like killing Katniss in the Hunger Games, killing Bella in Twilight, Harry in Harry Potter, Pooh in Winnie the pooh!! I can go on forever but I don't think you guys want to listen to me for that long, so I'll try to cut it down.

From the very beginning of the book, I didn't like the writing style. The characters just didn't seem like themselves. They seemed more robotic. Now that I've hit the end, I would rather take fifty books with the same writing style than the ending Veronica Roth chose. Honestly I think she just chose that ending because she was hitting the end of her deadline for publishing it and rushed into an ending. But that's how so many books are, I feel. Mocking Jay was 10X worse than either of the other books, Breaking Dawn was about 5X worse. I think authors just get tired of writing, but that's no excuse to go and kill off the main character.

Anyway, even though I thought about shutting the book and throwing it out, I think I will continue and finish it.

Best Friends Forever

Do you have that one friend, a best friend, who you can laugh with? Call up, no matter what time, just to talk? You can shoot their boyfriend/ girlfriend and still be best friends with? Ok maybe not the last one, but you know what it's like right? Well Tris and Christina are like that, even about the part where you shoot the others boyfriend.

They met in Dauntless initiation -wow that seems way far away- and have been friends ever since. Their friendship has been put to the test many times though, with jealousy, and guilt, and Tris shooting Christina's boyfriend. But the important part is that they always get back together. "Our friendship has held up under an incredible weight, the weight of me shooting someone she loved, the weight of so many losses. Other bonds would have broken. For some reason, this one hasn’t.” Pg. 393

This friendship plays a role in the book. Tris and Christina get power and encouragement in each other. When Tris got angry at Tobias she started to hang out with Christina more and their friendship helped Tris get over her anger easier and she eventually forgave Tobias. But now Christina’s friend, Uriah, is in a coma and soon they will be taking him off life-support. She needs Tris' help to get her over his upcoming-death and recover. “’Sometimes I feel like I’ve lost all my friends,’ Christina says. ‘You haven’t lost Cara,' I say. 'Or Tobias. And, Christina, you haven’t lost me. You’ll never lose me.’” Pg. 392.