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Essay / Allegiant - 550
Do you know what it's like to have your life revolve around something, and then have that something ripped away from you by the very people who gave it to you in the first place? Being told that your entire life was a lie made up by scientists who considered you “genetically damaged” and dangerous? Well, the exclusive Allegiant group at Chicago's genetic engineering experiment knows how it feels. In Allegiant by Veronica Ross, Beatrice "Tris" Prior, Tobias "Four" Eaton, Christina, Uriah Pedrad, Cara, Caleb Prior, and Peter Hayes all escape their home inside the fence for the first time, leaving behind them their lives in the hope of new and better ones outside the fence. But the lives they find outside the fence are even scarier than the ones they left behind. From wars and multiple rebellions to narrow-minded scientists and deadly serums, the Allegiant must work together to stay alive, because ultimately all they have is each other. They jump from lie to lie, from conflict to conflict, from rebellion to rebellion. They experience immense feelings of betrayal and despair, despair and...