Tobias and Tris are forced to fight because Tobias is heavily influenced by the simulation. She stands no chance against someone more experienced and zoned out while heavily injured and emotionally distraught. She has a gun, and she can shoot him--though she thinks she can't, but she won't.
"I can't kill him. I am not sure if I love him; not sure if that's why."
Now. if I haven't complained enough about her irrationality toward Tobias-- UGH. She kills Will without a thought, she kills the guards without feeling--but when it's her boyfriend of a whole like, two days, suddenly it's a great internal struggle. I can't say I'd be without conflict, but if the lives of literally hundreds of people depended on it, I'd shoot him in the darned leg or something; but, instead she hands over the gun.
Self-sacrifice. Self-sacrifice. Self-sacrifice--when it's convenient.
Okay, I'll be honest. Tris isn't my favorite character, not by a long shot, and it only worsens in the second book and I remain, having read that, that this relationship is destructive, and founded on very little.
:I
With a barrel to her head, the chapter ends.
"I can't kill him. I am not sure if I love him; not sure if that's why."
Now. if I haven't complained enough about her irrationality toward Tobias-- UGH. She kills Will without a thought, she kills the guards without feeling--but when it's her boyfriend of a whole like, two days, suddenly it's a great internal struggle. I can't say I'd be without conflict, but if the lives of literally hundreds of people depended on it, I'd shoot him in the darned leg or something; but, instead she hands over the gun.
Self-sacrifice. Self-sacrifice. Self-sacrifice--when it's convenient.
Okay, I'll be honest. Tris isn't my favorite character, not by a long shot, and it only worsens in the second book and I remain, having read that, that this relationship is destructive, and founded on very little.
:I
With a barrel to her head, the chapter ends.
1 comments:
I cannot agree more with you when you said that Tris should have shot Tobias! I can understand why she shot the guard without a second thought, because she didn't know him, but not Will. Tris can't kill Eric, the sadist, but she can kill sweet Will? It doesn't make sense.
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