Cross By Alli Condie Analysis

I read Crossed by Allie Condie. In this text there is a girl named Cassia who was trying to find this guy she was falling in love with named Ky, but he was sent to the Outer Provinces. Cassia has been in work camps and she gets a visit from her match, not Ky, whose name is Xander. Xander had given Cassia blue tablets and Ky’s artifact, a compass, but when they go out Cassia trades the compass for information to find Ky. The chapters switch from Cassia’s to Ky’s perspective, Ky is burying aberrations, people who are not allowed to marry because they or their families have committed infractions against the government, since the society sent them to die by being killed by “the Enemy.” Cassia escapes to the Outer Provinces, but only to find out that Ky escaped into the canyons, the Carving. …show more content…
They get into the Carving and separate from the boy, the girls make their way through the carving facing many dangers. While Cassia is searching Ky is trying to get to the society to find her with a boy named Vick and a boy named Eli. Then they climb to the caves they where they find provisions, books and maps collected by Anomalies or farmers, returning to the Carving to shelter for the night. The next morning, Ky awakens to the loud noise of something bombing the nearby river. Eli tells him that Vick had gone out fishing. When the noise stops, they investigate and discover that the Society has bombed the river with spheres of poison. They find Vick dead. After burying Vick, they are about to return to their camp in the Carving when Eli spots Cassia and Indie in the distance. The teens return to the Carving together. They decide to return to the village. At the village, they see a farmer burying his daughter, and meet a young man named Hunter, the only survivor of the township. They agree to help each