ever got to it. However, when we had to choose our free reading book in the beginning of this year I saw this and instantly picked it up. Matched by Ally Condie is the first book in a trilogy and, it was a New York Times Best Seller. I think that the title “Matched” fits the book because of the challenges that the main protagonist has to face during the book. Matched is in the dystopian genre. Society is corrupted and the government chooses who you date, what you eat, and when you die. Everything is
the norm or choose to conform and do as they are told. In the novel Matched by Allie Condie, the citizens of the society are forced to perform tasks based on their strengths and do what the society tells them to do by eating the same meal every day, wear specific plainclothes and get entered into a matching pool so they can decide who you will be matched with for the rest of your life. Some people are not able to be matched and they are called “aberrations”. Although, when a mistake is made
"Beautiful Creatures" a fantasy, young-adult fiction, romance novel written by authors "Kami Garci" and "Margaret Stohl"and in "Matched"also an young-adult, romance written by "Ally Condie. With both of these texts i can compare and contrast, how they both fall in love and deal with it and the consequences. In Beautiful Creatures you can run away from many things but not love. Matched shows that not everything will go as planned.
In the book Matched by Ally Condie it shows the problems the main character faces. The problem the main character Cassia faces ends up making a change in her life. Though she didn’t know what to do, she found a way to handle it on her own. The problem Cassia faced was being able to do things that she didn’t have to do because she could do it on her own. She found ways to fix her problem by asking he grandfather. According Condie “But I never taken the green tablet. Because of Grandfather. I was
Matched by Ally Condie In the book, Matched, written by Ally Condie, the author discusses how the dystopian society’s officials depicted who the citizens get to love, where they work, and when they die. The story starts out peaceful, the main character Cassia is going to her match banquet, to find out her lifelong partner. Unexpectedly and very rare was it that she got matched with her best friend, Xander who was in the same province. However, when given a micro card about Xander, she sees another
day-to-day life. In other places of the world it could be completely different. But because of our government we are able to live freely, but imagine if everything wasn’t as it is today. What if you couldn’t even decide who you want to love? In the novel Matched, by Ally Condie, uses cultural and geographical surroundings to shape psychological traits on Cassia as she realizes that she alone can change the government. By using cultural surroundings, the novel tells how the government makes every choice for
Matched by Allie Condie is a novel that explores a seemingly perfect society. Most of the people live happy lives. However, the lives of these people are fully controlled by “The Society”. How much they eat, who they start families with, and even when they die is all mandated by The Society. The people are completely oblivious to the power The Society has over them. They’ve accepted it as a way of life. The story is told through the eyes of Cassia, a 17 year old girl who lives in this society. She’s
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. The poems in “Matched” show how Ally Condie
In the book Matched by Allie condie the author describes what the main character faces in the book. To define the problems the main character faces is, doing things on her own, her grandfather died and it made things worse, and rules in the society. The main character had understand the fact that her dad had kept something from her. The main character Cassia has a journey ahead of her, and the things she faces can turn out to lead to danger or courage. The theme chosen to represent the book
The following excerpt from Ally Condie’s Matched, provides insightful context to the overall theme of the novel: When she doesn’t answer right away, my father puts his arm around her and tells me. “The maple trees have become too much of a problem. The leaves get too messy in the fall. They’re not growing uniformly. For example, ours grew too big. Em’s is too small. And some of them have diseases, so they all need to be chopped down.” (Condie 252) There are three topics present in this passage