Cassia's Matched Chapter Summary

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Matched begins on Cassia Reyes’s seventeenth birthday as she rides a train to her Match Banquet. In the futuristic world in which she lives, the Society decides who marries whom. Leaders called Officials are responsible for Matching boys and girls to their perfect partners, thus ensuring happy marriages and genetically well-balanced offspring. Cassia waits eagerly until her name is called, and then—like dozens of girls did before her—she walks to a screen at the front of the room. She expects the screen to light up with the image of a stranger from another city. Instead, most unusually, Cassia is Matched to someone she already knows: Xander Carrow, her best friend from childhood.
Cassia already loves Xander, so she knows immediately that he
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Be that as it may, she can't concentrate on considerations of her future with Xander. Rather she winds up feeling frustrated about Ky and pondering what happened in his past. She realizes that he was conceived in the Outer Provinces, where the Society's request is not all that solid and where numerous individuals are fierce and uneducated. Be that as it may, following the time when Ky moved to Cassia's neighborhood, he has carried on precisely like the greater part of his companions. He has succeeded so well at this errand that, as of not long ago, Cassia has never pondered about the subtle elements of his initial youth. Her curiosity is piqued, and she resolves to learn more if she can.

Cassia as of now cherishes Xander, so she knows instantly that he is the ideal Match for her. In spite of the fact that she never set out to trust that she may be Matched with him, the decision fortifies her faith in the Society. As she sees it, it merits surrendering individual opportunity in return for a close impeccable existence of satisfaction, wellbeing, and profitability. She wouldn't fret that the Society's Officials direct everything that happens to her and her family—what they wear, what they eat, where they work, and notwithstanding when they pass

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