![Walking through the tunnel created by the cheerleaders and Celebrities, senior Frances Tran smiles as the soccer team is sent off during DEN for their playoff game against Rouse tonight. Tran said the wins against Smithson Valley and Alamo Heights gave the team a morale boost to take on the Raiders tonight. “I know we were not 100% confident in those games,” Tran said. “But, Rouse is a big opponent for sure. We’re definitely going into tonight with a lot of morale [because of the previous wins].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frances-tran.jpg)
![Holding a bucket of materials in one hand and a roll of tape in another, anatomy and biology teacher Tyler Terry prepares for a lab. Terry said his proudest moments are when his students are happy to see him. “When I take my wife to a football game or something and a bunch of students want to say hi to me or they like to smile and wave and it just makes me feel good that the students are really kind and supportive of me,” Terry said. “[I’m also] proud when I see students perform really well in their extracurriculars because I can see how hard they’re working in my classes, [so] when I see that they’re also working so hard in other things. Like they’re winning band competitions or they’re getting awards for their theater productions, or I see them put on their choir shows, that’s like, wow, you guys are incredible.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rags-6.png)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901.jpg)
![Holding her dog, Nova, senior Ariana Balakrishnan poses for her senior pictures while Nova wears a bandana with her college decision. Balakrishnan applied to 18 colleges in total, but she decided on Columbia in the end. “Right before I clicked the button to open Columbia’s letter, I literally looked at the camera and go ‘This is just gonna really suck because I wanted it so bad,’ and I clicked it and all of a sudden you hear trumpets,” Balakrishnan said. “There’s a video that plays when you open it and I actually didn’t watch the video, I just watched the screen go black, because every day of December before ED [Early Decision] I would go on YouTube and watch the acceptance video to manifest it, so immediately when the screen went black, I started screaming and jumping up and down. And my parents in the video are like ‘What are you doing, where’s the letter,’ and I was just screaming ‘I got in, I got in.” I just started crying, and it just felt like everything in the world came together.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ariana-2-300x217.jpg)
Title: Allegiant
Author: Veronica Roth
Rating: 9/10 series, 8/10 Allegiant
Price: $11.97 online, Barnes and Noble
Allegiant is the third and final book of the Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth. The series is about a girl named Beatrice or ‘Tris’ who lives in a dystopian society, located in and around the city of Chicago, that divides the population into five factions, each with their own outstanding characteristic. When teenagers turn sixteen, they get to choose what faction they will be in for the rest of their lives, even if it means leaving their family. Before choosing what faction they will join, they go through a testing process that decides what faction they will fit best into.
Tris finds out that she is one of the few who belong in many factions. People like Tris are known as Divergent and are shunned by society. Tris tries to keep the secret, and joined the faction called Dauntless, whose quality is Fearless.
In the first book, Tris finds out that the faction known as Erudite, the Intelligent, is trying to take over the government, which is ruled by Abnegation, the Selfless. A war breaks out, and Tris must defend herself and her faction and the ones she loves, including another Dauntless Divergent named Tobias.
In the second book, Insurgent, Tris and Tobias take refuge from Erudite’s power with a faction called Amity, the Peaceful. They become part of the fight against Erudite and the rule of the factions.
Finally in Allegiant, Erudite has been defeated, but now everyone is without factions, and struggle to form a new government and keep the society running. Tris and Tobias join forces with a group called the Allegiant, who are trying to bring the factions back. But when they escape the society, there is more to the outside world than they thought.
After being a devoted fan of these books since the release of Divergent, I was excited to see what finally happens to Tris and her friends, and the outcome of their society. Allegiant held a lot of surprises, and there is not much that I can say without revealing any spoilers. I will say that I thought that the ending was not anything the readers were happy about. I heard a lot of complaints about the ending before I read the book, and I have to agree with them.
Overall, the book series is very well written, and surprisingly a lot of the plotline is almost parallel to James Dashner’s series, The Maze Runner. The movie for Divergent is coming out March 20, 2014.
