The Divergent Series: Allegiant 》REVIEW

My Review On Allegiant

By now I’ve read ‘’Allegiant’’ only one time, and the story is absolutely amazing that you can’t help fall in love with every character and detail, so enriched that you’ll skip any mistake by choice. The novel is entitled ‘’One Choice Will Define You’’ on the top of the cover, and honestly speaking the choice that Veronica Roth has made for both Tris and Four is not a correct one, at least on the fictional level. Tris dies at the end; she sacrifices herself for her brother, Caleb, and immediately before going to face the death serum she tells him: ‘’ Tell Tobias I didn’t want to leave him’’. Frankly, her death isn’t justified, maybe Veronica Roth intended for her to die so she’d be viewed as a symbol, for all the other young people to take her as an idol, but instinctively just by starting this franchise, Roth must have known that she is creating ideal characters yet with flows, just like us, the humans. They are absolutely not in any sense less human than we are, they’ve lived an entire life of growing, learning, loving, fighting, and so on. I mean didn’t Roth even for once imagined a human being called Four holding his beloved Tris in his arms, while she is all dead and lifeless; Of course, this is the circle of life, we are born to die, but fictionally she could’ve changed the finale into something, probably, more good. Because they’re words on papers don’t make it any easier for any reader to accept their ultimate fates, instead the creativity of writing makes it justifiable to render them a good ending, not even a happy one, but a decently acceptable closure.

Like many many fans of the series, I personally didn’t accept the end; so, I searched the Internet for other possible closures, and while a few are good one, and despite the facts that these closures lack the artistry that Roth possesses, they make a full circle of the story of Beatrice Prior, unfortunately rather than the original end. I’m a huge fan of Roth and I certainly not underestimating her fabulous ability, but I just am being honest about what I felt and thought of ‘‘Allegiant’’ after my first reading. One possible fan-rewritten end is the loss of memory; Tris loses her memory under the memory serum that she personally set off to reprogram the people in the Bureau and the head shot she received, allegedly, from David, the Head of the Bureau. I find the idea of her losing her memories a good one; since she is ‘Divergent’ and also a very pure one, she survived the death serum, and the audience of readers probably accepted her to be immune to whatever serum she might be exposed to; on top of that, Tris is an extremely valuable genetic material for the Bureau; without her their hundreds-of-years efforts will be wasted and gone forever, at the end they’ve got a point in what they’ve been practicing. Of course, any person must be accepted for what he or she is, their characters, brains, morals, lives, perceptions, and whatever component that makes them a whole human being, and certainly not for their pure genes, which kind of reminds me of the colonizers’ thinking in the nineteenth century. What distinguish you is what you personally are, and not what the others think of you. So, Tris’ death benefits no one; There is not a single person who is perfect and there will be not, as long as we live, we’ll always be flawed. So Tris not surviving the memory serum seems a little bit justified, humanly speaking. I realize that she was shot, originally, and died, and that’s human nature, but I really don’t know how to justify my positive feelings for the rewritten closure than the Roth’s one. Maybe it is death and we all naturally fear it, or probably she is my favourite heroine and I am deeply touched by her journey, or it is just Four that I empathize with, I really don’t know.

Another end is a severely injured Tris held captive by the supreme government for her valuable genetic material; the people she encountered throughout the franchise don’t really know about her alleged death. For them she’s really dead, gone for eternity, Four included. I think that might be a magnificent opportunity for Roth to start off a new sequence, to write another part to complete the circle of ‘‘Divergent’’. I certainly want a fourth part, I know it is unlikely to happen, but still hope is inevitable. As Roth declared at the end of the trilogy ‘’Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. ... We can be mended. We mend each other.’’ This saying can be applied to her novel as well. She can mend her wounded fans, compose a fourth part, and complete Beatrice’s journey with a little better finale.

At the start of ‘’Allegiant’’, Tris badly wanted to go beyond the city, to tear down the wall, by doing so she didn’t know she would face a far worse world than the city; A bureau that treated people as slaves for their ‘precious experiments’. Through the journey of Tris in the book, she wanted to live a normal life with Tobias -Four-, she didn’t want to ever leave him; ultimately the end is the exact reverse of what she wanted since the beginning, and that’s realistic, epitomizes life in a huge way, because you never expect that life would grant you whatever you wish for, it is just not normal. But still she sacrificed a lot, and she deserves to be fictionally rendered her rights, as a female, lover, sister, and friend, probably not all of them, but at least some. Lastly, because it is all a fictionalised world, it doesn’t make it any less real, on the contrary, it bestows Roth the ability to manage and to control the lives of the ideal yet realistic creative characters of hers, and so while she possesses the paths they each have to go through, she can still manipulate the events into a more good closure.