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Emily wrote: "What I don't understand is what happened when Tris was shot in the end. Did David kill her? Or the soldiers?"At the end, Tris gets grazed with a bullet from the guards then she walks through the death serum and then David shots her once she tries to go to the button, he shots her again and on her way down her hand slams into the button which leaves Tris saving the day and learning the true definition of self sacrifice.
Yeah, and of course she manages to slam her hand down on the button as she's going down from her gunshot. I remember rolling my eyes at that part. Roth never met a cliche she didn't like. Seen that in a thousand movies, have we?
Dear Maddie, They serum had worn off by then because it was passed the time the memory serum was suposed to let aout
what colour was the button that tris pressed to let out the memory serum before she died?
Lauren wrote: "I do not understand why Tris's only thought was to dive for the button. If this story was to take place anywhere in the land of logic, realistically she would have made some attempt to disarm David..."See it's stuff like this that just make it more and more obvious that Tris's death was the only goal in mind here. And I think its totally and completely fine for authors to plan stuff like this, but don't make it so obvious!
It's also one of SEVERAL examples where Tris does something so abysmally stupid that you're left wondering why the heck she has an aptitude for Erudite in the first place.
Question: Why did four and cristina had to return to the city, leaving caleb and tris alone to finish things?? They were supposed to go to the city to put anti memory serum in Uriahs and cristinas family, but why would they have to do that if their planning on stopping the attack??
It was a failsafe in case the plan to reset the Bureau didn't work and the memory serum was unleashed on the city anyway; at least the selected loved ones would be okay. It's an excellent plot twist, including an "inoculation" to the memory serum. Having all of our main characters and their remaining loved ones arranged to be unaffected by the serum meant that now there was absolutely no one for the reader to care about being in any sort of danger from this impending memory serum attack, and so this attack has absolutely no tension whatsoever as something the reader should even care about. Fascinating storytelling, indeed.The bigger question is this: If Four planned to use his sample of memory serum on one of his parents to stop the war, and this war was the entire reason for the Bureau resetting the city, and this reset plan was the entire reason for the suicide mission into the Weapons Lab to stop them ... why did they still plan on going on the suicide mission when Four was about to stop the very thing that was causing the whole problem in the first place? And he did. He stopped his mother even without memory serum. All he had to do was say pretty please, which made the whole problem all the more ridiculous, really. So why did it not occur to anyone that he just do that in the first place, so no one would have had to wipe out an entire population's memories, and no one would have had to die in order to wipe out an entire population's memories? Stupidness...
Tracy wrote: "Rose wrote: "Does anyone think he may have ended up with Cara in the end? I have a feeling the book was hinting to that. Was that just me??"I was so afraid of that, as well! I know a lot of peop..."
i know i hope not because there is only one tris for him....no offence to cara.....but yeah definitely not..otherwise i'd probably just die...:)
I read somewhere that Roth said, in an interview or something, that Tobias would get together with Christina later on.
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David did. In a wheelchair. Why she had no gun or no bulletproof vest ..."
Well, she brought a gun, and then OH SO CONVENIENTLY left it behind before heading into the death serum.