Brief Summary Of The Book 'The Society'

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The Society decides almost everything that Cassia and everyone else do. They choose when you die, what you wear, eat, what songs and poems you listen to and the movies you watch. They choose who you marry. Cassia has been “matched” with her best friend Xander and is delighted. However when she gets home the face on her computer screen changes from Xander to another boy, Ky. Ky is an aberration and is not allowed to have a match. After she saw the screen she goes to talk to her grandfather about it. Her Grandfathers dies the next day because in the Society once you turn 80 you die. Before Cassias grandfather passes away they wonder whether Xander was her match or if it is actually Ky.

In the book Cassia was getting on to a train and there where cottonwood seeds floating in the air. This part of the book reminded me of blowing dandelion seeds when I was little. They would float around when you blew them. I loved doing
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That would barley ever happen in their word but in ours murders happen a lot. In the book they call criminals anomalies. I don’t think they would have any sort of weapons in the book. We have them in Canada but gun laws are very strict. On page 31 says that before “the Society” everyone had too much technology and it had big consequences. Currently everyone has a lot of technology and it can cause problems like global warming. The page also talks about how people only know information about the job that they work at. It says that people used to know too much and it was overwhelming for them. We do have a lot of mental illness in our world but I don’t think it would be from knowing too much. In chapter 7 cassia’s grandpa dies. In the book everyone dies on their 80th birthday. I think that they put poison into his food because on page77 it says no one is allowed to eat from his plate. This is very different because everyone dies at different times in our world. You can pretty much die from

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