The Hattie Faction

by goldrose182

This story takes place six months after the ending of Allegiant. Tobias, Christina, Zeke and Caleb are brought to a mysterious sixth faction called The Hattie Faction. It is described as a faction of dead people. Nothing will be the same when they hear of this strange faction, and to the dismay of every Erudite, logic is thrown out the window. (ALLEGIANT SPOILERS!)

7. Final Note

My final note:

So that was the last chapter of this actually (well besides this), and it got kinda weird, but I can't take credit for this weirdness. After reading Allegiant my friend Hattie made this up because obviously she didn't like the ending. So that's why there are so many things that randomly show up or don't actually work. It's just some weird craziness. I thought it was funny and so I wrote it down because I wanted to say something, and I figured the most people who would understand what I'm talking about would be here.

I'll start by saying that no I did not by any means like that Tris died. I loved her, annoying and stubborn as she could be. But as a writer I get why Veronica did it. She didn't want the typical cookie cutter ending we're all so used to. So, what I really hate seeing/hearing is that it was "lazy writing" or that they just hate her now because she's not allowed to do that, or whatever. (I'm not at all saying any of you have said that because obviously I don't know so that would be completely unfair to say. I'm just saying this as like. . . a general announcement for lack of a better word.)

Writing should not have rules! Veronica and all other authors should be allowed to do whatever they want with their books. How is killing the main character lazy? It's not like she killed her just to get this over with. She obviously thought it through and had been planning this for a while. There was a reason for it. It was to show what true self sacrifice was because that was one of Tris's biggest struggles through out the series; figuring out what self sacrifice really was and what it really meant. It was also to show how we as people can heal and come together, and that was Tobias's biggest struggle. This is the most complete character arch for both of them. Though I will say that whole book wasn't as well written as the first two books, so as a result Tris's death might not have felt as meaningful which might be part of the problem.

Veronica took her own advice. She was brave. She did what no other author dares to do. And it takes a lot of nerve to publish a book in the first place, but even more to publish one with something so out there and unusual. Personally I think that this wasn't well received because it isn't a cultural norm for books to end like this, so it was really shocking. But I support Veronica in her decision to shake things up! Sure it totally sucked and put us all into some serious shock. . . but it was bold, it was new, not expected. It was real and not the ending we are all so used to.

Also, we call Shakespeare one – if not the – best writer and he killed his main characters (and a lot of the rest of his characters) all the time. No one cares that he killed Romeo and Juliet in a play named after them. That's even part of the reason it's so well known. So why is it different if writers now a days do it? That's not fair to them.

So you can completely disagree with me, and you can continue to hate how this ended. I don't really expect people to read this and totally change their point of view, I just ask that you not completely dismiss this and think about it, and if you still don't agree then alright. You don't agree and you can go ahead and do that.

Thanks everyone for reading (especially this part).