The novel, Matched, by Ally Condie, was a suspenseful and romance-filled story. A seventeen year old Cassia lives in a Society that is known to be “perfect.” But what she doesn’t know is that the Society has dark secrets just like everybody else. According to the novel, Cassia has always trusted the Society’s choices. When her best friend appears on the matching screen, Cassia is certain he is the one. Until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now she is faced with impossible choices, between Xander and Ky. The only life she’s known and a path no one dares to follow, between perfection and passion.
The adventure and suspense begins on Cassia's seventeenth birthday, at a fancy party where she'll get
She's asked to sort workers at the nutrition disposal plant by their level of efficiency. The better half will get new, higher status job assignments in another town, and the poorer half will remain. Ky's right smack in the middle, but despite the fact that it'll take him away from her, Cassia sorts Ky into the better half to give him a chance at a better life.
Upon his departure though, she and the rest of the town discover that he's not being sent to a good job, but instead to fight a war against rebels in the Outer Provinces, a death sentence. The townsfolk are given a special red pill to forget what they just learned, but Cassia only pretends to take hers, instead smashing it in the dirt. She wants to remember Ky, even if it hurts, and she's determined to find him.
Luckily she gets the opportunity to do just that. When her family is relocated due to her mother's job, Cassia's family requests a temporary work assignment for her in the Outer Provinces, purportedly because she's growing rebellious. It's the perfect opportunity to sneak off and find Ky, and Xander even gives her supplies for the journey.
In this novel, in the society, officials decide, who you love, where you work, and when you die. Cassia, Xander, and Ky was in a love triangle. Where the Society matched them, but Cassia and Ky’s love set them
In this fast-paced novel, Cass Shipton and her circle of friends are called in to find a local family that has mysteriously gone missing. Desperate to find the missing family, they find the trail points to a vicious killer with a violent past. Between Cassandra’s circle of devoted friends, her booming herbalist venture and the wants of Scruffy her eccentric mutt, she finds her hands quite full. Things become worse when she has to take in a troublesome teenager. Winifred “Freddie” McGinty comes into Cassandras life bringing along a whole lot of chaos to complicate her
When Denny’s late wife Eve dies, his whole world is changed. Trish and Maxwell - the evil Twins - plot against Denny by pulling him into a major court battle. As a result, Denny is forced to sacrifice major opportunities in order to win custody of his daughter, Zoë. “ “I appreciate your generous offer,” he [Denny] said. “But I’m afraid certain things prevent me from leaving this country – or even this state – at the moment. So I have to decline.” (Stein 276) Luca Pantoni – a man that worked at Ferrari – asked Denny if he wanted to move out to Italy with his family where he could test cars for a living. With the major court battle going on Denny had to politely refuse the offer. Knowing Denny’s personality it would have been difficult for him to decline such a great offer, but at that moment he had to think about his family first. Next to Eve, Zoë is the most important person in Denny’s life. The death of Eve was unexpected for both Denny and Zoë, but Denny could not let his sadness and frustration show...
Expenses increase and forces the children of the family to find work like the adults. Jobs in Packtown are back-breaking , unsafe, and have no regard for individual workers. The oldest of the family gets a job, but it is to difficult for the old man and he quickly dies. The man of the couple, “Jurgis,” is forced to work in an unheated packing house during the winter. Jurgis is injured and cant work for three months receiving no pay. One of the children dies of food poisoning. Jurgis joins a union and slowly begins to understand the way politics and bribery that control Packingtown. After attacking the boss of his wife for making her sleep with him, Jurgis is put in jail for a month. While in Jail the family has been evicted from there home and is living in a run-down boardinghouse. When Jurgis returns home he finds his wife in premature labor, and in the process of giving birth the child and her.
Jack wanted her to experience what he had. He hated it was so far away. When Calyx left for college they made promises to each other to stay together. And, they tried even after Calyx found out she was pregnant. He had just started at the BAU and he moved there to be with her while still traveling with the team. He wanted to be there for her, when she miscarried, he could read her better than anyone. She pulled away, she blamed herself and he hated it. He loved her, but he couldn't take it anymore including after months of him trying to get her to open up. He moved back to DC and pushed himself into his work just like he father had done after his mother had been killed. 2 years passed since Jack had spoken or seen the love of his life, when he met CA who was a new recruit coming into the BAU. She was different and he liked that. He could relate to her and she was there to help him
...y for love however in this novel it seems that the independence and lifestyles that are created from this society mean that love isn’t wanted, people don’t want to be in a secure and fixed relationship.
The book "Matched" by Ally Condie takes place in a society, a society where everything is controlling you from when you die to where you live and who you love and where you work. Cassia that girl that is getting matched with someone was sure that her best friend was her match and she was right the society told her he is her match till she saw the screen with another guys face on it. Then she is determined to find out more and the weird thing is that she knows the guy his name is Ky. The author used trust to show us that there are issues when it comes to Cassa trusting the society after the big mistake. In the book “Crossed” by Ally Condie it has a lot to do with trust and teamwork. The author Ally Condie used trust and teamwork to show us that if you trust and work together you can survive. In the book “Crossed” Cassia, Eli, India and Ky had to work together in order to survive and get away from the society without getting caught.
Publishers Weekly says, “Condie is at her best… grabbing readers´ interest from the first page.” In Matched by Ally Condie, Cassia is living in what she believes is a perfect society. After getting matched with her best friend, Xander, there is a glitch making her question the society. When she starts falling for Ky because of the error, she has to decide who she really loves. Young adults should read this book because it has a real life connection to air trains and it has a good message which is people should listen to their hearts.
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married. However, “for pragmatic reasons, the author’s conclusions favor marriage as the ultimate solution, but her pairings predict happiness” (“Austen, Jane”). Als...