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Is it that Tris dies? Because one of my friends already told me about that.
Yeah she dies, I'm okay with a story ending with a death of a main character but some people can only deal with happy endings, which I think would be boring if it all ended the same.
Well, it's not just that she dies, but that she dies in a very anticlimactic way. Typical horror movie hero makes the phenomenally idiotic move to put the weapon down and then lo and behold the bad dude is creeping unexpectedly around the corner once it looks like we're finally in the clear and the movie's over--just ugh lol that is the most generic, cliche, overdone way to kill anyone off, and that's what you give to your main character? Not to mention, David was a weak, boring villain that was only recently introduced. I'd rather her have been killed by Jeanine or someone who's been around from the beginning, not some random new guy.
And to further extend on Emily's point, David—a recently wheelchair-bound man who likely never before held a gun in his life-manages to lethally shoot Tris, who had spent the last several months in a police/paramilitary group, because she just conveniently happened to to forget her gun.
Yep. And presumably, even without a gun, Tris knew how to dodge...especially a shot from someone as unskilled as David. Like, again, she doesn't HAVE to live, but she has to die in a way that makes sense, and, imo, in a way that's interesting. This is a book, after all. It shouldn't be boring.
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Mar 28, 2015 08:12PM
Is it that Tris dies? Because one of my friends already told me about that.
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Yeah she dies, I'm okay with a story ending with a death of a main character but some people can only deal with happy endings, which I think would be boring if it all ended the same.
Well, it's not just that she dies, but that she dies in a very anticlimactic way. Typical horror movie hero makes the phenomenally idiotic move to put the weapon down and then lo and behold the bad dude is creeping unexpectedly around the corner once it looks like we're finally in the clear and the movie's over--just ugh lol that is the most generic, cliche, overdone way to kill anyone off, and that's what you give to your main character? Not to mention, David was a weak, boring villain that was only recently introduced. I'd rather her have been killed by Jeanine or someone who's been around from the beginning, not some random new guy.
And to further extend on Emily's point, David—a recently wheelchair-bound man who likely never before held a gun in his life-manages to lethally shoot Tris, who had spent the last several months in a police/paramilitary group, because she just conveniently happened to to forget her gun.
Yep. And presumably, even without a gun, Tris knew how to dodge...especially a shot from someone as unskilled as David. Like, again, she doesn't HAVE to live, but she has to die in a way that makes sense, and, imo, in a way that's interesting. This is a book, after all. It shouldn't be boring.
