The fighting begins and tensions are high. Al and Will go up against each other and the result is obvious, though the gentle giant feels a great deal of guilt. The next significant fight is between Christina and Molly, which the prior loses terribly. In fact, she surrenders, which gets Eric fired up and roaring about Dauntless behavior.
Christina then has to make a choice to between two fates: Factionless life, or possible death by dangling over the chasm for 5 minutes. She chooses the latter which left me to wonder just what these children were told about that fate in life. Of course, it's not a comfortable life, and the is a strong stigma associated with the Factionless, but personally, dying doesn't sound too hot. The devotion to the factions is made quite apparent through small things like that, and it makes me wonder what the timestamp on Divergent might be.
"She must choose between living factionless and death
"Fine," she says."
Forgive the redundence, but it shocked me that she had no hesitation, while Tris expressed her own likelihood to do so. I think Tris sees more of the flaws in their system, yet is unable articulate it unless under the pressure of factionless or death situations. Al gets brave and stands up to Eric and hauls Christina over the edge after five agonizing minutes. In this moment I liked Al an awful lot! Like, wow, what a brooo; for now, anyway.
The kids all become closer and Tris awaits her fight--which, obviously will go in her favor.
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