Chapter 20-26

Looks like I forgot to post this last week? I had it but for some reason I didn’t copy it over from my word document. So this post will be double the information.

Chapter 20
Tris has to go through her fear simulation again which is messing her up giving her nightmares. This simulation she is drowning in a glass box and everyone is just ignoring her. Instead of drowning Tris breaks the glass which is not supposed to be possible in the simulation. Because she does this Four figures out that she is a divergent. He doesn’t tell her he knows that.
Tris goes to talk to Tori again about what happened in the simulation. Tori tells her that being Divergent means that she knows she's in a simulation and can change things. She also tells her if the Dauntless leaders find out they will kill her! The same thing happened to Tori’s brother and she knows he was murdered. So Tris thinks, is Divergent or he knows about Divergents.

Chapter 21

Four continues to put Tris through her fear simulations, including burning at the stake, drowning in the ocean, watching her family die, and shooting them. Four starts talking about his family and says he doesn't miss his family, which is a little strange.
Back in the dorm of the dauntless, the rankings are posted and Tris is number 1.  She is beating Peter because she gets out of her fear simulations so quickly. Peter attacks Tris, and tells her friends that she's just manipulating them by pretending to be weak. They may be friends, but they're still competing.
Tris’s friend Al, is ranked last and pretty down about being last. Tris decides to hang out with her Dauntless friends Uriah, Lynn, and Marlene. She goes out to get a drink and then gets attacked by Peter, Drew, and (her friend Al). They drag Tris to the chasm and dangle her over the railing. Peter starts to molest Tris, and Al resists and helps. Four comes and stops this by beating the heck out of Drew.

Chapter 22

Tris wakes up in Four's room, where he tells her that he beat Drew up after her attack.  He also tells her that her friend Al betrayed her and why. When Tris became stronger than him it made him feel weak. Four also tells her that she has to keep safe and when she gets a chance, she should destroy her enemies.

Chapter 23

That night, Tris stays in Four's room, and starts to realize she really likes Four. After the attack she pretends to be weak and scared by Peter's attack.
Four takes the initiates through the glass building above the Pit, to the place where they'll be tested in the final part of the initiation. They'll have to go through their fear landscape that's been built up for them from their simulations. Think of the worst obstacle course and that would be what this is. Everyone going through the obstacle course know they're in a simulation which might help.
When they all get back Al tries to apologize to Tris, but she tells him not to come near her again.

Chapter 24The next day, they find that Al has killed himself by jumping down the chasm. Tris feels bad since she basically told him she did not accept his apology. Eric gets up and gives a speech about how courageous Al was to go face death.

Four tries to talk to Tris and explains that he wasn't taunting Tris in earlier in the book in the knife throwing incident but that she's stronger when she's acting selflessly. He tells her that he wants to frighten her because fear makes her feel alive.

Chapter 25
At the beginning of the chapter Will, Christina, and Tris get new tattoos. Tris's tattoo this time is of the Abnegation symbol.
She sees Four and follows him to the fear landscape room. And he invites her into his fears so she can learn about him. He fears heights small spaces, shooting a woman and his abusive father (who is Marcus, the leader of Abnegation. This means that Four was born into Abnegation family, but transferred to Dauntless.
During the simulation she helps Four get out of all his fears. They call him four because he only has four fears.

Chapter 26

I love this chapter because four and Tris finally kiss. J  In the beginning on the chapter Tris and Four are walking hand-in-hand. Four tells her that his aptitude test came back Abnegation, not Divergent. She thought for sure he was Divergent. He believes that they are compatible. If he is Abignation and she is Dauntless, you can be brave and selfless at the same time.

Chapter 16-19

Chapter 16

At the start of chapter 16 Tris starts to talk to Al and he basically spills his guts about how he has a crush on her. He gets frustrated because she doesn’t feel the same and it gets strange.  He talks about his family and how they wanted him to join dauntless.
Later they start talking about the test they had to take and of course Tris lies but her other friends from Candor can tell she is lying. Four comes in and tells them all the rankings and Tris is 6 out of 9 which she seems to be ok with. Peter and Molly are mad at their rankings.
After a little bit the number #1 ranked guy Edward gets stabbed in the eye which of course ruins everything for him. Causing him and his girlfriend to dropout making them fractionless.

Chapter 17
The team of Dauntless gets on a train and on the starts talking to a girl Shauna and Zeke who are also dauntless. They start zip lining and have a great time. When she gets home Al and Christina wonder where she has been and what she has been doing.

Chapter 18
So in chapter 18 the Dauntless have to do the second stage of initiation. It is a mental aptitude test. They do a simulation that makes you face your biggest fears. It is a private test with just Four and Tris. The next part uses a simulation serum and a transmitter is injected into her.  Her first hallucination she is in an empty field and is attacked by crows. Apparently you get to end your hallucination when you get your fear under control.
Four and Tris discuss fear and realize that the crows are just a symbol of something she is actually afraid of. Then they discuss Dauntless and how it used to be about courage, but now the leaders are more into cruelty. I guess this is why Eric is in charge of the new initiates, even though Four was ranked above him when they first started.

Chapter 19

Chapter 19 basically just talked about Molly and how she gets revenge on Tris for beating her by telling lies to a reporter that her parents abused her. Will prevents Tris from fighting her and they go get a tattoo instead. On the way home they run into drunk Dauntlless along with Four. He tells Tris she looks good. (I so hope they get together!)

Chapter 12 - 15

Chapter 12

At the beginning of chapter 12 they have to go on another field trip. This time it is a paintball challenge. Eric and Four are the two captains and they pick teams. Of course Four chooses Tris! Tris decides to climb a Ferris Wheel to see where the other team had their flag. Tris does see where the enemy team is.  On their way down, a piece of the ladder of the Ferris wheel comes off and Tris almost falls. So Four rescues her. Tris tells her team where the flag is located.

Chapter 13

Chapter 13 was pretty insane. Eric (the bad guy) is teaching them a lesson on knife throwing. Tris is really good at it but her friend Al is not at all. Eric decides to teach Al a lesson and starts throwing knifes at Al. Tris steps up and has him do it to her instead. Then it is Four’s turn and so he throws the knives, narrowly missing Tris. And Tris thinks he's trying to make her fail by teasing her.

Chapter 14This chapter starts with the day before Visiting Day. Tris trys on a bunch of clothes and they do not fit. Then she goes into the dormitory wearing just a towel, she gets bullied by Peter, Molly, and Drew. Peter grabs her towel away from her.

Next they go to the training room and Tris gets a chance to fight against Molly. Tris has been studying Molly's fighting technique so with that and the advice Four gave her Tris wins.

Chapter 15

Chapter 15 was a bigger chapter. It's Visiting Day when the parents come to see their kids. Tris is not expecting to see her family. Her mom actually comes though and she seems ok with her switching to Dauntlass. She tells Tris that she thinks Four is handsome.
The chapter also talks about Tris’s friends and their family, Christina, Will and Al. Tris’s Mom's final asks  Tris to find her brother in the Erudite compound and wants her to ask him about the simulation serum.

Chapter 8 -11 in Divergent

Chapter 8 started with Dauntless training. Four teaches them about guns and they learn to fights. She starts seeing PDA which is strange for her since it wasn’t allowed in her fraction. They go to lunch and then to boxing practice. Four keeps teaching them how to move quick when they are boxing. ( I think she has a crush on him) After the boxing training, Christina takes Tris to go shopping and to get makeup. Tris runs into Tori the girl that gave her the aptitude test and gives her a tattoo of three birds flying.

Chapter 9

The next day the fighting starts between the people in Dauntless. Tris’s friend Christina tell her that Peter, Molly and Drew are all bad news. Eric and Four have a conversation about what it means to be brave. Molly (the bad one) and Christina starts to fight but when Christina trys to give up Eric decides to make a lesson out of Christina. He tells her to go out over the railing and hang over the pit for five minutes. Tris wants too much to help her friend but she is afraid she will get in trouble.  They start cheering her on and Christina makes the five minutes.

Chapter 10

Tris wakes up from a nightmare about Christina hanging over the pit. Peter continues to be a jerk and writes “Stiff” on Tris’s bed when she is in the shower. Tris talks to Al and she basically doesn’t want to hurt anyone. On this day Tris has to fight Peter in the boxing ring. Everyone thinks she doesn’t have a chance and they are right. He knocks her out and puts her in the hospital. Tris wonders if her family will come visit her in the hospital.

Chapter 11

The next day the Dauntless initiates take a field trip to the fence around Chicago. Tris has another nightmare about Peter torturing her. After the train to the fence they see it guarded by Dauntless people with guns. They wonder what they are trying to keep out. They start examining the fence and then some farmers come through. Tris starts to talk to him and tells him she doesn’t really care to be happy. After that, Four tells Tris that in a fight she needs to attack first.

Divergent Chapter 4-7

So I have been reading Divergent still and loving it. I start back with Chapter 4. Beatrice is back in the Abnegnation neighborhood and she starts to think if she wants to be there. She wishes she felt like she could be ok with just wearing grey and boring.  When her parents ask her how the test went she lies to them. Beatrice’s dad starts venting about his government job and how his coworker Marcus’s son Tobias left Abnegation fraction for Dauntless because Marcus was abusing him.

After the aptitude test is the choosing ceremony when 16-year olds have to choose their fraction. At the ceremony, each 16 year old gets cut and puts some blood in a bowl symbolizing one of the fractions. The bowls are filled with grey stones from Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, and glass for Candor.  

Marcus (Beatrice’s dad’s coworker) gives a speech about democracy and choice. Caleb goes before Beatrice and surprises everyone by choosing Erudite. So now Beatrice feels like she can't abandon her parents… but she chooses Dauntless anyway.

Chapter 7 starts after the choosing ceremony and Beatrice leaves with the Dauntless. She then starts the initiation into the Dauntless.  To get to their home, Beatrice has to jump on a moving train. Beatrice gets help from another transfer, a girl from Candor named Christina. They see another transfer not get on the train which means he's factionless. Then they have to jump off the moving train, which is initiation challenge 2. Beatrice helps Christina jump and another candidate misses the roof and falls and dies. Initiation challenge 3 is jumping from the roof into a big hole in the ground. Beatrice wants to show she can be brave, so she jumps first. At the bottom of the hole Beatrice meets Four, who is an important guy in Dauntless. He was impressed that she was brave enough to jump first. At the end of the chapter she gets to pick a new name and she chooses Tris. 

No To White Queen - Yes to Divergent

So I made a huge mistake and started watching the Starz version of the White Queen and now I can't seem to get back into the book. Normally, I like to read the book before I watch the movies. I was recording all the episodes but I couldn't hold out.
I have been hearing all about the new book series by Veronica Roth. Divergent, Convergent and I guess Allegiant comes out soon. I bought the first two books a few months ago and I didn't know when I would get around to reading them. This PRABE gives me a good opportunity.

So I started reading Divergent and I need to just stick with it. It started to confuse me. In the beginning we meet the main character Beatrice Prior.  For some reason they have only one mirror and it is normally covered up. They start talking about how Beatrice was born into the Abnegation fraction and she has a brother Caleb. Beatrice doesn't seem to like to be in that fraction?
Now that Beatrice is 16 she will take a test to show what faction she belongs in and then be able to choose her faction. This choice is FOREVER.

In chapter 2 the aptitude test starts and it tells you what fraction you fit in the best with. You can choose what it says or you can choose a different one. No one gets to see how they do on the test. Beatrice waits for her turn and she was born in the Abnegation family but she doesn't think she fits. She then meets this girl Tori who is a Dauntless. So the test starts and it is in like a virtual reality where she chooses what to do. For example she comes up on a dangerous dog, does she give it cheese, attack it with a knife, or does she play submissive so it wont attack her.

In chapter 3 the girl Tori that gave her the test is confused by her results. Beatrice starts to freak out because she doesn't want to be fractionless.  They told her she had three options Abnegation, Dauntless, and Erudite. Since she is some of all this means she is Divergent. So then she has to choose which fraction she will choose. Tori tells her to keep her Divergence super secret because it's super dangerous.

So this is about how far I got...super good but all the fractions are really confusing.

New Class New PRABE blog - The White Queen

Well, here we go again! Now that I am taking four classes my homework load has increased dramatically. My time to read has also gone down but I guess I need to start up again I guess.  They are showing a mini series called The White Queen. I had heard that they were making a series based on the books, The White Queen, The Red Queen and the Kingmakers Daughter. I have always been obsessed with any book from English history based on the kings and queens. So before the mini series got released I wanted to read the book. My mom had the book, The White queen so I started it this week. The problem is that I didn't want to do anything but read this book. Basically, this is the story about the kings and queens before the Tutor's. Elizabeth Woodville is a Lancaster and after Edward of York defeats the current King Henry VI he comes upon Elizabeth on the side of the street.  Elizabeth not only succeeds in getting Edward to return her lands to her, but also causes Edward to fall in love with her. A Lancaster woman and a York king. Elizabeth swears that she is too virtuous to be Edwards mistress and so, since he decides that he must have her, he marries Elizabeth in a secret ceremony.

I can't wait to continue this story to find out what happens after this secret marriage.