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. …show more content…
For example something the people who work for the society would say is “ The society is pleased to present you with your match.” This is to show that the society is about to match you with someone. In the book Matched Cassia wants and lets the society control her but then finds out the truth. On page 3 it is showing this by saying “I’ve waited so long for this Match Banquet ”. In the book “Crossed” Cassia had already knew the truth about the society and all the horrible tricks they play. In the book “Crossed” cassia is running away from the society and Eli, India and Ky are with her and in the book "Matched" Ky and Cassia are just trying to disobey the rules and get away with it while still in the society and still act like they are following the rules but really tricking the
In “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich the two main characters Lyman and Henry are brothers that have an amazing relationship with one another. In the beginning of the story Erdrich writes about how Lyman and Henry bought a gorgeous red convertible; and together they went on plenty of road trips and bonded over the car. On the other hand, the two siblings in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” don’t have that same sibling bond. The siblings in “Everyday Use”, Maggie and Dee, are complete opposites. Dee is extremely vain, snobbish, and outspoken while Maggie is coy, insecure, and timid. Although Maggie and Dee aren’t as close as Lyman and Henry, they still have a very complex relationship in terms of being “close” to one another even though it seems as if they’re from two different planets. In the stories “Everyday Use” and “The Red Convertible”, the characters share one particular trait which is
The overall structure of the novel juxtaposed the two different stories by going back and forth from chapter to chapter. This made the events that occurred between each chapter gain suspense and add interest. This style also had a good versus evil comparison happen. The two main people being described are Burnham, the good, and Holmes, the evil, have completely different goals. Holmes is a serial killer who simply “was enjoying himself… was testing his power to bend the lives of people” (355), yet Burnham is an architect that wants to show the world what he can do. Holmes and his victims are even compared with the viewpoints from both Holmes and from the victim. One example of this is when the women he is courting is locked up in a safe and her experience is described as well as his at the same time. Olmstead and Burham show a contrast of their old ideals versus the other architects forward thinking new age ideas . Even some of the smaller events are juxtaposed. The mixing of both the famous celebrities of the time and the commoners opinion of the fair, and the conflict between the fairs committees’ naive attitude toward how much is required for some of the tasks of the fair and Burnham’s awareness of how these projects play out. This back to back comparison writing style led to the book seeming to be more setup and not a historical
Two people could be living two very different lifestyles, yet they could be very similar in the way they act and react in the same situation. Charlotte from “The Metaphor” by Budge Wilson and the Mother character from “Borders” by Thomas King live very different lives but the way they deal with the problems they are faced with is very similar. Both protagonists have to deal with trying to be forced to be something they are not by society and their families, but Charlotte from “The Metaphor” has been challenged by her strenuous home, she must face her organized mother and orderly home; the Mother from “Borders” must stand up for what she believes in and fight for what she wants.
I have read the The Crucible, The Scarlet letter, and Of Mice and Men. In two of these stories, The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter, society was very much alike. They were based on a Puritan background. The Puritans had laws to live by. In the story Of Mice and Men, society showed racism and also that people took the law into their own hands.
Wes (the author) has a family who wants to see him succeed. Although Wes didn’t know his father for long, the two memories he had of him and the endless stories his mother would share with him, helped guide him through the right path. His mother, made one of the biggest effects in Wes’s life when she decided to send him to military story, after seeing he was going down the wrong path. Perhaps, the other Wes’s mother tried her best to make sure he grew up to be a good person, but unfortunately Wes never listen. His brother, Tony was a drug dealer who wish he could go back in time and make the right decisions and he wanted Wes to be different than him. He didn’t want his brother to end up like him and even after he tried everything to keep Wes away from drugs, nothing worked and he gave up. As you can see, both families are very different, Wes (the author) has a family who wants him to have a bright future. Most importantly, a family who responds fast because right after his mother saw him falling down the wrong hill she didn’t hesitate to do something about it. The other Wes isn’t as lucky, as I believe since his mother already had so much pressure over keeping her job and her son Tony being involved in drugs. Same thing with Tony, he was so caught up in his own business that no one payed so much attention to
In the stories presented by both of these writers, viewers and readers witness a dystopian world where the government controls the people, and people are conditioned to like the social class set for them, whether it be lower, middle, or upper class. Although, despite the fact that these stories have less violence because people are conditioned, this type of society is inhuman. Seeing that people should have the right to free will, and they should have the right to work themselves up despite how low they started. However, socially stabilized is not what humans are meant to be, we are meant to socialize with one another and learn from one another. In this type of society, socializing with people from different classes is not common, and different class marriage is not allowed, or marriage isn’t allowed at all.
Not all characters get a happy ending, and a particular character’s husband turned out to be someone much different than who she believed to be marrying. Through dishonesty, confusion, and chicanery, each character had a helping hand in dishing out each other’s fate, but nonetheless, the relationships that resulted in a law-binding marriage beat destiny and overcame every hardship standing in the way of love and happiness.
Cassia once said, “This is as close to perfect as any society has ever managed to get.” (Condie, 32) In writing this, Ally Condie wrote of a seemingly utopian world where protagonist Cassia Reyes lives in, specifically engineered to eliminate as many choices as possible to create a better life for its entire population. However, the reality for Cassia is that this world is definitely not perfect. What she sees is a world where she wants something that requires difficult decisions in order to produce the best outcome for herself, her family, and her lover. In the novel Matched, by Ally Condie, the transcending theme in the prescribed passage is desire and choice to fulfil life. Due to the microcard incident and, interactions between her father and grandfather, Cassia developed a need for many things that required here to make critical decisions.
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.
The first book in the trilogy written by Allie Condie, Matched, tells the story of Cassia Maria Reyes. Cassia starts out as a perfect little girl growing up in a society where she doesn't get to make any decisions for herself as the society makes them for her. At the beginning, Cassia never even thought about doubting the society as she trusted it and it never even occurred to her to step out of line; she truly thought Society's rules benefit everyone, and that they would direct her life in its proper course. After Cassia meets Ky and she gets her double match, she starts to doubt the society and she begins to want something more than the Society can give her, but she still struggles to completely abandon what she's spent sixteen years believing. Later, she also begins to recognize and cultivate
Many books around throughout time have had two characters that are very similar and can be compared and contrasted. One book, The Hunger Games, introduces the characters of Katniss and Peeta in way so that they may be analyzed quite easily. Katniss and Peeta are both willing to get through the test of the Hunger Games and they both want to keep living for the sake of another person. But, at the same time they are also very different. Katniss has a more masculine personality because she enjoys hunting and scavenging, while Peeta is more reserved because he is just a dough boy and works in a bakery. While The Hunger Games has two great characters to compare and contrast, so does the classic frame narrative, Frankenstein. In Frankenstein, Mary
their social positions. Though both characters are polar-opposites they are gulled in the same way; by being baited into playing out identities
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... standards that we as a society can move on from that time period. Now in our present time there isn’t as strong of a double standard because we are fairly aware of it when it is present. Yet in the time that these novels were published it was considered normal and ok by society. In the end though all of the great pieces of literature that we’ve read really do offer us what the class promised and that was “big books about bad women,” although maybe is should say “bad women and men.”