Analysis Of Matched By Allie Condie

The novel “Matched” by Ally Condie follows a character named Cassia Reyes. She is faced with many problems, but is determined to solve them. For example, she is matched with a boy in her province who is named Xander, which is rare, but she starts to fall in love with a different boy … Ky. The society knew that Ky was Cassia’s real match, so they established a test to see if she would follow the rules or break them. The society has many standards that the citizens are supposed to follow, such as eating for health, not flavor, or being being told what age you must get married. To advantageously portray the theme of the novel, Condie uses strong imagery and foreshadowing that thickens the storyline and engages the reader.

Ally Condie’s book, “Matched”, takes place in an unreal world, where society chooses a person’s true love and plans their life. The main character Cassia goes through many problems when society tries to chose her true life, because Cassia falls for someone else and not her true match. Cassia does many things to prove to society that society can not pick Cassias true love. One theme in the book is people should stand by their morals through the bad times.

In Sucker, by Carson McCullers, Society is presented as an evil force with malicious intent. Society is the villain because of the enforced gender roles in the family, and also the gender roles outside the family. The nature of Society’s villainy allows the reader to understand the theme of love being lost in search for more in the story by showing its effect on how it happens.

“Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning my brother’s was worth a pocket watch.” This book is Between Shades of Grey, by Ruta Sepetys. The genre of this book is historical fiction. The book is about a 13-year-old girl, Lina, and her family. They are a Jewish family at the time of the Nazi’s. This was not a very good time in Lina, her brother, or her mom’s life. All of a sudden Lina and her family find themselves on a railroad cattle car and they don’t know where they are going or where their dad is. On the cattle car, Lina meets a cute boy her age named Andrius who is trying to find his dad, also. Lina and Andrius go and try to find their dads. Lina finder hers, but Andrius comes up empty-handed. When they get off the cattle car, which is 1 year later, Lina is split up from her dad, so she has to work to try to find him again but then she finds out he is dead. Lina gets out of the camp they are in and her and Andrius get married. In the book Between Shades Of Grey, by Ruta Sepetys Lina is courageous, determined, and loving.

The novel, Matched by Ally Condie is set in the future world, where everything is controlled by the government. The society, which is the United States has strict control over marriages, and what happens. The citizens of this society are divided by law, and reputation. The law-breakers are called Aberrations and are not paired with a partner. The Protagonist in the story Cassia, is matched with a young boy named Xander, that she has known throughout her life, and Ky, who is an Aberration. She

In order to understand Janie’s journey to discover love and herself, one must first define love from her perspective and analyze its origins. Janie’s adult concept of love is influenced by many things, including her grandmother and her childhood concept of love. Janie thinks there is a standard for love because her grandmother had standards for who she loved. Nanny’s concept of love, which shapes Janie’s, is heavily influenced by her slave background. Nanny was impregnated by her master, then witnessed her daughter, Janie’s mother, get raped by a school teacher (16-20). Because of the trauma both she and her daughter faced, Nanny ardently begs Janie to marry a man who will keep her safe from harm. Not only does Nanny want a protector for Janie, but she also wants a provider for her. If Janie is to have a husband who is well-off, she will not want the way her mother and grandmother did. Thus, Janie figured that she could marry a person for the security they

This story is written in the nineteen eighties, an era filled with racial and sexual evolution. By the mid- '80s, Jim Crow laws had been dead for two decades -- a full generation. Mid- '80s culture had also been redefined by social movements such as civil rights and feminism. The eighties was an era of female empowerment and African American equality. Although Jim Crow laws, which hindered racial equality, have been null for two decades, romantic relationships between multiple ethnicities is still not widely accepted. The story begins describing the weather “It was the third day of an August heat wave” (71). It

Laura Murphy is a member of the Lake Braddock Secondary School Parent-Teacher-Student Association in Fairfax Station, Virginia. Murphy is advocating for students at the high school to not read a particular novel. The novel that she is challenging happens to be the Pulitzer Prize winner Beloved by Toni Morrison. Murphy is not only challenging the book, but is also wanting to ban Beloved. In regards to future literature, “new polices are adopted for books assigned” that might have objectionable content.

In monument 14,(2012) a novel written by Emmy Laybourne, 14 children ranging from kindergarten to upperclassmen in high school, become tragically trapped inside of their local greenway grocery store. However, despite their different social classes they are able to put aside their differences to unite for survival. Jake Simonson is a senior and football star. However, Dean Grieder is a 16 year old nerd. Dean is a quiet kid who sits in the back of the classroom and you barely know he’s there. The two both have something in common, Astrid Heyman. Jake, being at the top of the social status can have any girl he desires. However, for Dean that isn’t the case. Dean has been crushing on Astrid as long as he can remember, but has almost no chance

I am reading Crossed by Ally Condie and I am on page 140. So far this book is about Cassia and Ky’s journey in the Carving to find each other. Cassia travels with a friend, Indie, from a farm that she worked at before they came to the outer provinces. Ky travels with a boy who reminds him of cassia’s brother, Eli, and a friend, Vick. As they travel, Cassia and Ky both believe they will find each other somehow against all odds.

“Lust,” describes a young teenage girl who has mischievous meetings with many boys. The narrator, which is the young girl, attends Casey Academy which is a coed school. She is sexually active and does not fear pregnancy because she has been taking birth control pills since she was a young girl. The narrator describes her sexual expected gathering with the fifteen different boys she has been with, and when she talks about them she seems emotionally removed from the experience. The narrator’s parents don’t have a clue about what she has been getting herself into: “My parents had no idea. Parents never really know what’s going on, especially when you’re away at school most of the time. If she met them, my mother might say, “Oliver seems nice” or “I like that one” without much of an opinion...” (1029). The narrator’s parents do not show much interest in her life which can be a reason to why she craves

I read the science fiction novel, Matched by Ally Condie. This book is told in the first person point of view of seventeen year old Cassia Maria Reyes. Cassia is not like any other normal teen, she follows the rules of the Society most of the time. At her matching banquet she finds out that her match is her best friend Xander Thomas Carrow. Xander and Cassia are a perfect fit for the Society, or at least they thought.

26 Kisses Essay There are two sides to every story, each character can view the story differently from the other. In the book, "26 Kisses" by Anna Michels, two characters, Killian and Veda, both see the events throughout the book in very different ways. To begin, Killian, a boy who works a summer job with Veda, is seen in parts of the book as a jealous but likeable guy that has much in common with Veda. As Veda progresses through her list of guys to kiss over the summer while she also has gone on a date with Killian, Killian becomes upset at the thought of Veda's kissing challenge.

The Society of Matched by Ally Condie is completely different from ours. In the Society, Officials choose who you marry, where you live, what you eat, and many other aspects of life. They have also limited things like music, art, literature, and even history lessons to one hundred each so as not to overwhelm citizens with too much knowledge. Cassia Maria Reyes is the main character of Matched. The conflict Cassia finds herself in is when she sees two Matches on the Matching screen.

Divergent by Veronica Roth is a book about choosing who you are. It deals with many different themes and messages throughout it that author is trying to convey the readers. The novel tells the story from the perspective of a sixteen-year-old girl protagonist Beatrice Prior (Tris). When the city residents turn sixteen, an elaborate ritual takes place where each resident must choose or select one of the five different factions to which they will devote the rest of their lives and which will define their