In a world where everything is controlled for you by the sorting of numbers. From who you’ll marry, the job you have, they even promise you a fulfilling life all the way up to age eighty, as you pass away peacefully never feeling useless or unwanted. Your life is controlled by three tables: green, blue and red. No knows what the red tablet does, people believe it is a death tablet, but the Society fends off those rumors. The blue tablet is given at age 10; it is filled with enough nutrients to keep you alive for serval days. The green tablet is given at age 13; it will make you calm, but you can only use it once a week. The red tablet is given at age 16, and is only to be used when instructed. Where the world is finally at a state of content, the Society seems perfect on the outside. But inside at Mapletree Borogh, one girl finds the flaw that runs deep into the …show more content…
She always had, and thought she always would. Her family consisting of her mother, father and little brother Bram have lived in Mapletree Borogh all their life. Everything was peaceful, or so they thought. The day of the match banquet was a series of preparation for the girls of Mapletree. As at age seventeen the girls will find out which boy they have been destine to marry, and a chance to show off their beauty by colorful dresses, instead of their regular brown, black or grey clothes. Cassia was especially excited as this was the day she’s been dreaming off, showing up as the only girl in a bright green dress. Her match, well it was an unusually one as she was matched with her best friend since childhood Xander. It seem like a fairy tale as both family were excited, and Cassia’s peers jealous, as Xander was a good cached, and they already shared so many memories together, they knew even before the banquet they be perfect together. Cassia was happy, at least until she put her card in to find out all about Xander’s life and saw a face that wasn’t Xander’s staring back at
In Matched, at the age of 17, teenagers are matched to the person they will spend the rest of their lives with and at her Match Banquet, Cassia is Matched to her best friend, Xander. When she get her microcard with all the information about her Match, instead of seeing Xander’s face on it, she sees Ky Markham’s, an Aberration, a low status person. She becomes increasingly intrigued about knowing better her accidental Match and eventually, spending more time together, they un-coincidentally get matched into being partners in their hiking hours. They eventually fall in love but it is obviously forbidden by The Society, so the
The family was planning a surprise party for Julissa’s older sister, but their plans never came through. Because the party was called off and of the catastrophic event that occurred the same
To begin with, after being told her husband’s secret, she deserted him for a “less dangerous man”. She said the following: “Fair friend," said she, "be happy. That which you have coveted so long a time, I will grant without delay. Never again will I deny your suit. My heart, and all I have to give, are yours, so take me now as love and dame.”
In the society, your match is chosen for you and you must fall in love with them and be together forever so Cassia
In the book Matched by Ally Condie the main character Cassia changes drastically throughout the novel. In the beginning of the novel Cassia has been just like everyone else and blindly following the rules of the society. When she gets matched with her best friend she is so excited, but when she sees another person on her microcard she slowly starts to see all the flaws of the society and what is wrong with what they are teaching her. Cassia changes significantly and observably from the beginning of the novel to the end.
In the beginning of the story Cassia seems satistfied and doesn’t seem to doubt her society at all. When matched with Xander, she was excited. She had always liked Xander, but was never able to like him more than just a friend. However, she admitted that she did like him as more than friend, but thought since they were in the same province that they would not be matched together, because it has rarely ever occurred. When walking with Xander, Xander grabs Cassia’s hand and he claims that they are now allowed to show physical affection if they both want to. When Xander says this Cassia thinks to herself, “And I do want….the touch of his hand against mine with nothing to
The story opens with Cassia and her best friend, Xander going to a special event that marks an important time of their lives: their Match banquet. The result of the match is unexpected, however: they are Matched together. The pair is the talk of the neighborhood for a while. However, when Cassia looks at her Match Microcard, everything changes. Xander is not the one displayed on the screen. The boy
They were neighbors and had always known of one another. Alejo had been out of the ranches for some time working in the city of Moneterrey when Audelia was still a child, but when he returned to his parents home he saw her and was immediately captivated by her. Audelia had become a young and beautiful woman and for him she was a truly graceful and could be set apart from all other ladies at first sight. Although their age difference made him doubt and hesitate to ask for her hand in marriage in fear of him being denied to be with her or simply her turning him down there was still a fire that burned within him to be near her. One day while she was in the kitchen with her sisters her father walks in and surprises her with the news that she was to be married to Alejo. Joy filled her home and she was very excited for what would become of her life with this man she had heard much of but truly knew little of. All she could say of him was that he was physically tall, handsome and had deep blue eyes with dark brown hair. She knew they were distant relatives, but that was not an issue for it was normal at the time to marry a distant relative due to the seclusion of their
Yes she can imagine the life the Society planned for her and Xander, but Cassia heart longs for something more than an easy “Happily Ever After.” Cassia spent months at a work camp, living on the outer edge of the society, but longed to be in the outer province. Cassia finds a way to get on an airship to a new “village” on the outer province. Once there Cassia and her new friend Indie made their way out to the wild, Indie to look for the rebel group called the Rising, and Cassia is looking for Ky. Once reunited, Cassia is on a one way track to the rising, taking Ky unwilling with
The story begins on the main character, Cassia’s, seventeenth birthday. This is where she learns who her perfect match is, she is very excited to find who her match is and is delighted when she finds that she got matched with
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Jamee, Darcy’s fourteen-year-old younger sister, is rude and rebellious to her and others, but Darcy still cares about her. One day, she is at the school library and heard a boy, Bobby Wallace, about a girl he’s dating who is willing to steal for him. She finds out that he was talking about Jamee and she tells her what she heard so that they will break up because she hated that Bobby was taking advantage of her. Later, Jamee returns from school and saw that someone had hurt her and Darcy found out that when her sister broke up with Bobby, he hit her. She later encounters him before school and warns him to stay away from Jamee, in an effort to protect her the best she can.
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