"A brave man acknowledges the strength of others."-Four
I WAS SO COMPLETELY RIGHT. Holy cow this chapter was INTENSEEEEEEE. They were put up against each other to fight in this chapter, and first Al and Will were put up against each other, and i wanted to cry every time one of them punched the other. Al of course won, because he is just so much bigger than Will. But he felt soooo bad about it and I felt bad for him.
And then, Christina was paired up against Molly, one of the mean Candor girls. Molly is a lot bigger than Christina, but Christina had complete determination, and I was very convinced that she was going to win. However, that's not what happened. In fact, Christina tried to concede half way through. But due to a very tense moment between Eric and Four in the earlier fight, Eric would not allow it. In fact, he got so, so, so, so, so, so, so, SOOOOO mad at her!
This is where I was dying inside. Eric made Christina go out and climb over an edge and hold on for five minutes. Seems easy right? Wrong. If she lets go, she falls to her sudden death. Still seems easy right? Wrong again. During that five minutes, water is splashing against her back making her flail from side to side, and making is superrrrr hard to hold on to the edge.
The whole time, Al and Tris are cheering Christina on, yelling for her to hold on as long as possible. The SECOND the five minutes are up, Al tells Eric. But Eric, being the nasty, vile person he is, tells her to keep holding on. Al refuses, in fact, so threateningly, that Eric gives him the OK for Christina to come up. On her own. And that's where Al gets really mad and says that Christina is not a coward. She did what he said. She's not a coward. So he goes over to the railing and gabs Christina's arm and pulls her up.
The chapter ends with Tris kneeling over by Christina, and her looking at both Tris and Al, thanking them with her gaze. And then she lets out a breath, basically thanking God that she is safe. I was thanking Him too. #intensechapter
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