"Three minutes."-Four
You may not understand this quote right away, so I should explain. In order to do that, though, I should tell you what the chapter was about. So far the whole Dauntless part of the book has been about stage one, and physical combat. This chapter, however, was about stage two. And stage two, is about mental fear.
Okay, I'll be honest, and only because I know probably no one will ever read this, but I was really scared during Tris's part of initiation. The mental part is when they inject you with a serum that makes you hallucinate and create a fear in your mind that you have to go through. Tris's was when she was sitting in a field and all of a sudden, a crow started attacking her. Then a whole flock of them came and started pecking at her and eating her alive! That is literally the worst way to die. Slowly and painfully.
Crying and screaming, she woke up from the hallucination and started freaking out on Four, as if he put her in that situation on purpose, as if it was his fault. This is where the quote comes in, and obviously it is one of the shortest, but it is also one of the most powerful. He asked her how long she thought she was in the hallucination, and she guessed maybe half an hour. "Three minutes," he said. That is more than half the time that it took the other initiates!
I'm going to go weird on you here for a minute(again), I was so proud of my homegirl Tris! Go you! At the end of the chapter, they started talking about Dauntless before people like Eric came into power. And finally- one of the moments that we've all been waiting for, Four told us his rank when he was an inititate. He was first. Go him!
Like I said, this was the shortest quote, but it was the most powerful, if you think about it.
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