Chapter 30

     This is the chapter in which Tris goes through her fear landscape. I'm not really going to go fear by fear, because you don't want to read that and I don't want to write that because it would just become a boring list. Most of the fears she goes through are ones she has conquered in simulations. There were two that stuck out to me though. The first is one where Four tries to have sex with Tris... and she turns him down. For real? Tris has got to be the most back and forth character, "Oh I love this boy." and then, "Oh wait, no I don't." I realize that it's just a simulation and whatever, but for real? I apologize to Veronica Roth ahead of time, but make up your mind when writing this girl! Have I touched on the fact that she might be the single most selfish character I've ever read, yet everyone in the book is always going on about how selfless she is. If you want to make your character a certain way, Mrs. Roth, show us how they are. Don't just expect that your readers are too stupid to make their own conclusions about your characters based on their actions. Sorry, had to get that one off of my chest.

Make up your mind, author lady!

     The next one that was new is the Candor guy from the aptitude tests, somehow leading an army of ghouls to steal Tris. This one was pretty freaky, but Tris conquered it fairly easily. Lastly is the one where she has to shoot her family, but this time Jeanine is making her shoot her family. This time Tris isn't going to shoot her family (Once again Veronica! Make up Tris' mind!). "Shoot me instead" Tris thinks, just as Jeanine shoots her.