Allegiant Finale

Allegiant Finale
Alex Engler

I left off on my last post with Tobias in jail and another attack on the compound near. Tris is now unsure of her relationship with Tobias because he hasn’t been listening to her. Even though he stayed with her through her depression and completing all of the suicide missions she tried. Tris is in a really bad spot at this point in the story. Her boyfriend isn’t there and listening to her, her brother tried to get her killed, her parents are dead, and her best friend Uriah is about to die because of being near the bomb that Tobias set off to create a diversion. As the story goes on Tris finds out that her mother came from this compound and that her being in the faction society was all a plan to see if they were ready to come and save the compound from it’s own destruction. She is given her mother’s journal and Tris reads it over and over again trying to understand why her mother never told her any of this information.
Once she is done reading her mother’s journal, Tris decides that it is time to show her brother who came with them to the compound. She is at war with herself because Caleb is still her brother even though he almost got her killed and didn’t do anything about it. She finally decides that she will try to forgive him and try to rebuild their relationship. But the damage may already be done and it won’t be able to be fully repaired.
Tobias is in jail, but the “genetically pure” give him a fair trial and he is able to get released from jail. Once he is out he tries to repair his relationship with Tris. Over the next few weeks they finally come to an understanding and are once again trying to get rid of the “genetically pure” rule over the “genetically damaged”. They come up with a plan to get in to the weapons lab and get the memory serum to reset the memories of the genetically pure. The only problem is, is that it has a high tech security system that if you don’t enter the right passcode you will get sprayed with the death serum and die. This death serum is absorbed through your skin and no one can outrun it or try to cover themselves from it. One of them will have to make the ultimate sacrifice and die trying to get that memory serum.
The day finally arrives to start their attack. Tobias goes back to the city to reset his parent’s memories and try to make peace. Tris and Caleb are the one’s to go to the weapon’s lab. Originally Caleb was going to be the one to get serum and die trying. But last minute Tris makes the courageous decision to go to the weapons lab instead of her brother. Since Tris is Divergent she was able to resist the death serum. She got the memory serum and was about to leave with it, when the leader of the “genetically pure” shows up and shoots her. Tris dies, but her effort was not in vain. The “genetically pure” were reset and all were saved from the destruction that was coming. Tobias is depressed that Tris died. After a while he finally learns to move on and he gives life a new chance.
In my opinion this was the worst ending to the book, because the main character that we followed through the entire series dies. I was really hoping that it would be a Harry Potter moment and she would come back to life. But in the end she doesn’t and Tobias has to live his life without her.

Allegiant

Allegiant
Alex Engler

This is the the third and final book of the Divergent series. The second book, Insurgent left off with their society on the brink of war. The five factions were in chaos. The Erudite had just taken over the Dauntless minds and forced them to murder most of the Abnegation faction. Tris and the other Divergent were able to avoid the mind control and shut down the simulation. But sadly the damage had already been done. Most of the Abnegation were dead, including Tris’s parents. Tris was then went in to a depression, and started to do compulsive things risking her life at almost every turn. But her boyfriend, Tobias was able to help her and make her come to her senses. Tobias during this was also going through a rough time. He has just found out that his mom, who he thought was dead for a long time, is alive, and his father is still alive in the Abnegation faction. This brought horrible memories for him back to light. He was forced to remember how his father abused him and how his mother ran away and supposedly died. But even with this all coming back to him, Tobias was able to suppress them and focus on what really needed to happen.
They have just seen this video from one of Tris’s ancestors, who came from outside the fence. She told them the real reason they were there and how all the factions were formed. She also told them that there was life outside the fence of their city and that they needed to come and save it from it’s own destruction. Tris and Tobias showed the video to the entire city. Once the video was seen, a group was formed called the Allegiant. They were going to be the ones who were to go outside the fence and find out what was really going on in the society.
The Allegiant finally had enough people to go on this mission, with Tris and Tobias apart of the group. They went outside the fence and found a compound were many people lived. Tris and Tobias found out the history of how and why their society was created. Turns out the Divergent are considered “genetically pure” and those who are not, are considered “genetically damaged”. The “genetically pure” are the race that basically rules the compound, they are the researchers and security guards, while the “genetically damaged” are on the lower end of the stick and are forced to do maintenance and clean-up duty. Tris thinks that this is unfair and she finds a group there who are trying to do something about it. Tobias joins right away, but soon finds himself in jail and away from Tris. Tris had known it was a bad idea from the start and had tried to warn him, but Tobias was in his own world and went against Tris’s wishes of sitting this one out.
I can’t wait to finish this book and find what will happen to Tobias’s and Tris’s relationship and what will happen if the “genetically damaged” are to attack the compound again.

Finale to The House of Hades

Finale to House of Hades

I left off with Percy and Annabeth wandering down in Tartarus and their friends Leo and the gang rushing to Athens to fight off Gaea. Will Percy and Annabeth get out of Tartarus alive and make it home in time to help stop Gaea from rising and save Camp Half-blood from the Romans? Will Leo and the rest of the gang be able to make it to the ancient lands and close the doors of death in time to stop Gaea? 

Percy and Annabeth, as I left off, were stuck in Tartarus looking for the Doors of Death. The Doors of Death are their only hope of getting out of Tartarus. But the question is where is it located? Along the way they meet one of Percy’s old friends, Bod the titan. Back on earth Percy had defeated him and wiped his memory. Now Bob has forgotten everything about himself and his past, plus he thinks that Percy is his friend. Bob decides to help Percy and Annabeth through Tartarus. But along the way Bob meets his brother and he tells him of his past. Bob is sad that Percy lied to him and he leaves. Now they are without a guide again but have a general idea of where to go. 

As they walk along, they are attacked by these monsters that if you kill them they release a curse on you. Percy killed so many that he almost dies, but Bob coming to his senses comes in and saves Percy, taking him to a giant that can heal him. The giant heals Percy and sends the group on their way. 

But with just their luck they are faced with Night herself. She sends her children after the group and the groups runs away. As they ran through her castle they had to keep their eyes closed because otherwise they would have seen horrific images that even if they had gotten out they would have been changed forever. They came to the end of the castle and they were forced to stop because there was a large canyon in front of them. It was to wide to jump but there was a river at the bottom so Percy was able to control the water and get them safely across. 

Once they were safely across they found Bob again and they caught their first glimpse of the Doors of Death. The sad problem was that there were hundreds of monsters surrounding it trying to get back to the mortal world. In order to get rid of the Doors of Death the group will need to fight off all the monsters and hold the button of the elevator to make it disappear. They are able to fend off the monsters and Bob holds the button for them as they return to the mortal world. 

Back in the mortal world things aren’t going so great either. Percy’s friends as they try to find the mortal side to the doors of death, are attacked by thousands of monsters. Nico is able to raise an army from the dead and Leo leads them to win the battle. They find Percy and Annabeth at the doors and they are finally able to try and defeat Gaea. But we will have to wait and find out what happens in the next book. 

The House of Hades

House of Hades
Alex Engler

This is the fourth book in the heroes of olympus series. At the end of book three, Percy and Annabeth had just finished fighting Arachne but had fallen into a pit that led down to Tartarus. On the other hand, Gaea is rising and is planning to wreck chaos onto the world. To stop her the heroes must close the doors of death and meet her for battle in Athens, the ancient holy lands, in which no demigod is supposed to venture to. This wasn’t their only problem, they also have angered the Roman demigod camp and they are now coming to wage war on the Greek camp and destroy them.
As Percy and Annabeth fell, they felt like they had fallen for hours. Finally you could hear sounds of crying souls and see an opening into a cavern. Were they going to crash and die into the land of Tartarus? Not at all, Percy being a son of Poseidon sensed a river near by and called it to them and had it catch them so they wouldn’t die on impact. They had officially entered the horrifying land of Tartarus. As they looked around they could barely comprehend what they were seeing. It was a large carvern that never seemed to end with a red sky and swirling clouds along with jagged rocks for the land.
Percy and Annabeth wandered about trying to figure a way out of there because they were both injured and exhausted. Pretty soon they figured out that the river of fire was used in the fields of punishment to keep the souls just alive to have them fulfill their punishment. So they drank from the river. It was like eating a ghost chile which is one of the hottest chiles on earth. But it did provide them relief from their injuries for the meantime. They kept on their journey and tried to find the doors of death. Even when faced with monsters that almost killed Percy, they kept on moving through Tartarus trying to stop Gaea from rising and get home to their friends.
Back on earth Percy and Annabeth’s friends were in a panic that their friends had been taken to Tartarus. They ran around on their ship just trying to survive. They had already been attacked by so many monsters that they all had lost count. What were they going to do? They repaired the ship as best as they could and continued on their journey assuming that they could reach the doors of death on the mortal side. Along the way a daughter of Pluto was given a vision of how she would help the quest to save Percy and Annabeth. She would have to learn how to control the Mist, which was what shielded the mortals from seeing the monsters and weapons of the demigods on earth.
Will Percy and Annabeth get out of Tartarus alive and make it home in time to help stop Gaea from rising and save Camp Half-blood from the Romans? Will Leo and the rest of the gang be able to make it to the ancient lands and close the doors of death in time to stop Gaea? I look forward to figuring out these answers.

Finale of Beautiful Chaos

Alex Engler
World Literature
Second Blog Post
Miss Wager

Finale of Beautiful Chaos

         When I first left off on my other blog, I was almost to the climax of the book. The world was falling into chaos. The human world thought the end times had come, and the caster world had many of their powers misfiring and wrecking havoc on the mortal world. Will the world come to an end or will some hero come in and save the day?

         As the world falls and crumbles around Ethan and Lena the main characters, they research a way to try and save everything they know and love. But Amma, the mother-figure in Ethan's life, has other plans for them. She decides to take fate in her own hands and goes to see a voodoo man to see if she can change the fate of Ethan and the world. Ethan followed her to see what she was doing, but what he saw made him change his mind of staying. Amma had made a deal that would have grave consequences.
        Even though Ethan knew what Amma had done, he went on with life and never spoke of it with anyone. Ethan was very curios on what the fate of the world was and what price Amma had paid to change it. As soon as everything seemed to go back to as normal as normal could be with the world ending, the Lilium visited Ethan. The Lilium is a creature of the underworld, who is neither Dark nor Light, but part of the balance of the world. She told Ethan the fate in a poem that he would have to decipher. She said that one who is two shall have to make the sacrifice for the new order to be forged. For a while Ethan tried to think of who that could be. It just didn't add up. Lina thought that it could be John Breed who is half Caster and half Incubus. But when he was finally ready to sacrifice himself, the Lilium said it wasn't him. It was Ethan, because a few years ago Ethan had died and Lina had brought him back to life. As it turns out, Ethan left a part of his soul back in the underworld and was living with the other half on earth.
      Ethan was going to have to sacrifice himself to bring order back to the world and not cause it to go into ruin. But this also means that he was going to have to die and leave behind all of his family and most of all Lena, his one true love. He ultimately decides to sacrifice himself and leave everyone behind to save them. As he was about to do the deed, we find out that Amma knew that it was Ethan the entire time and was trying to save him from this fate. But it was already to late and the price that the voodoo man had called for was not paid for in full. So the book ends with Ethan dead and Lena alone. In the next book, we will have to find out if his sacrifice was good enough and if the world falls back into it's natural order. We will see if Lena can make the Beautiful Redemption.
      

Beautiful Chaos

Alex Engler
Miss Wagner
Word Lit. and Comp.
Aug. 26, 2013

Beautiful Chaos

    I have not read much of the book yet, but so far as I have read I have found out many things about the main characters and the plot. This is the third book in the Beautiful Creatures series. The title of the book already have a very significant meaning to this book. There are two main characters in this book. The first is Ethan Wate, he is a normal teen meets a group of people who are like witches but call themselves casters. He is then thrust into a world of fending for his life and falling in love with the other main character. Her name is Lena Duchannes. She is a caster and is apart of a curse where on her sixteenth birthday she will have to choose whether she will become a Light Caster; also known as the good guys; and the Dark casters.
    Beautiful Chaos means that it about the beautiful creatures that have special powers as casters and the chaos means that after Lena chooses to be both a light and dark caster and this throws the entire world out of it’s natural balance. Because of how Lena claimed herself, the natural balance of the world is destroyed and now all of the powers of the other casters misfire. Even the normal human world is out of order with record heat and locusts.
    So far in this book, we have found out that Lena’s great-uncle, Abraham, is the world’s most powerful blood Incubus. The blood Incubuses are just like the human’s equivalent to a vampire. He is now hunting Ethan trying to find information about Lena and how she claimed herself. Ethan has no idea how she did it, so one night Abraham just gets frustrated and lets loose all chaos on the town he lives in. He sends a twister through most of the town and also burns down the library where Ethan loves to stay because it holds many good memories for him. Now all of the town is in a panic thinking that the end of the world is coming and that they are all going to die. But only the casters and Ethan know what truly is going on.
    Truthfully, I can’t wait to find out what happens next. This really is one of the most suspenseful books I have ever read. Every page I have read makes me even more hooked and makes me want to know what will happen next. In the description of the book on the cover it tells you about how Ethan is being chased by something unknown and is starting to forget about who he really is. It is really making me question what will happen to Ethan and his relationship with Lena, and the fate of the world. But since there are more books after this, it makes you question where the author is going to take it. But as it says on the cover, some choices are difficult... others are deadly. I will see where the choices of Ethan and Lena will take the fate of the world.