Title: Matched Author: Ally Condie Pages: 390 (Wasn’t exactly 390 so I read a few more pages from another book) 1. Characters- The main characters are Cassia, Ky, the Officials, Xander, and Cassia’s mom and dad. 2. Background-…
For the past week or so I have been reading Last Year’s Mistake by Gina Ciocca, The DUFF by Kody Keplinger and finishing The Moment Of Letting Go J.A. Redmerski. Last Year’s Mistake is a story about two best friends, Kelsey and David, who become distant after the true feelings for each other are known. Before Kelsey moves away David confesses his true feelings for her, which only makes Kelsey angry. Kelsey is upset at David for not telling her before for in her eyes it is too late.…
Matched by Ally Condie is a science-fiction dystopian book which is about a girl named Cassia who lives in a futuristic world which is strictly controlled by the society, the government of the world. The government decides where people live, where they work, who they get married to, and even when they die, and in return the citizens "live longer and better than any other citizens in the history of the world. " At the age of seventeen, citizens undergo the process of getting “Matched”, which is being paired up with another boy/girl, typically in another borough, which is selected by the authorities. Cassia Reyes, in a rare case, is matched with a person in her same borough,called the mapletree borough,and the person’s name is Xander Carrow, who is her best friend, went to the same Second School, and grew up on the…
The novel Matched by Ally Condie was written on purpose to show how humans tend to take freedom for granted. The genre of this story is a Utopian fiction where citizen's living in ‘The Society' have some sort of perfect circle. Also, certain things like jobs, marriage, as well as death are controlled by ‘The Officials' they MAKE ALL THE DECISIONS as a citizen you have no voice. Rebellion is not an option in the story if you or a family member tries to rebel, both you and your family's memories will be expunged, and all of you will be removed from the Providence. Basically, ‘The Officials' think that they know what is best for everyone, and they want to see their want to see their citizens happy and safe, but what is happiness without freedom?…
Matched, by Ally Condie, is a book that keeps you wanting more after every flip of the page. Set in a dystopian future, this novel shows a society that has no rights and no sense of freedom. Cassia, the main character, is put between the lines of what is right and what is wrong, when she falls in love with the wrong man. Being matched is one of the major steps in becoming an adult and Cassia couldn't of been more thrilled when she was matched with her life long best friend Xander. The only problem is she starts to develop deep feelings for someone else.…
Runaway Slave Punishments and Devices Kindred is a great book by Octavia E. Butler about a young woman that goes back in time into the Antebellum era to save one of her ancestors named Rufus. He is her great great grandfather. He lived in a somewhat southern state at least south enough at the time for them to have slaves. Their family didn’t treat the slaves as bad as some families did in more southern states but they still treated them as if they were still their property and technically they were. So if the slaves did something they weren’t supposed to do they had a punishment some worst than others depending on what they did.…
Throughout Allie Condie’s novel, Matched, the prominent theme is the perceived perfection that the Society offers through its rules and restrictions. The Society has implemented a rigorous governing design where individual freedom’s and decisions are non-existent. The goal of the autocratic design is not to provide citizens with the optimal health and happiness as promised, rather it is to control, manipulate, and condition citizens to conform to the Society’s way. This idea is demonstrated through the numerous references to artifacts that belong to some of the residents of Oria. Their symbolism not only aids in revealing the Society’s underlying motives but also demonstrates how the artifacts bring a sense of security and comfort to their…
I have so many different thoughts and opinions about this book. I started out loving Has to Be Love, was super conflicted in the middle, but thought the ending was pretty spectacular. Like I said, conflicted. Our narrator, Clara, was rather frustrating to read about because she was so torn between what decisions to make about particular things, but she was a truthful character (to us at least). Reading Clara's justifications for wanting certain things made me more interested in the story and what would eventually happen…
Did the passage of years affect how society views the role of women, or do we still view women as housewives? In the United States, women earned the right to vote in 1920s and after couple of years they were able to become involved in the society. Even though women have equal rights as men, there are certain expectations that society forces on the women, such as, house chores. When we see men as house husband, we see this act as heroic and we get amazed by those acts.…
Have you ever wondered what a society be like if the government made all the important decisions for you? They choose who you should marry, they choose the job you do, and control many other aspects of your life. In the book Matched by Ally Condie this is exactly what happens. This story goes along with Chapter 13 in How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster. The power structures, individually, and the different classes talked about in How to Read Literature Like a Professor all are in Matched.…
Between the World and Me Book Review Ta-Nehisi Coates, an African-American writer and national correspondent for The Atlantic, published his book Between the World and Me in 2015. Ta-Nehisi Coates demonstrates a letter writing format and introduce the thesis of this book with an interview. By using his unique writing style, outstanding using of languages, and narrative form, Coates emphasizes a currently serious issue in American, which is the gap between whites and blacks. Ta-Nehisi Coates adopts a letter writing format in the book Between the World and Me to denote the awareness or racism issue. Coates begins his writing with one word “Son”, which indicates the primary audience is his son, Samori. However, Coates intends to notify…
When the word marriage is heard, what definition comes to mind? After reading Stephanie Coontz’s article, The Radical Idea of Marrying for Love, the definition of marriage that most people are familiar with is different. In Coontz’s article, she explains the ideal marriage in multiple cultures and how the idea of marriage has altered after some time. It is hard to have one definition of marriage for one culture when there are many different people, therefore, is there a real definition for marriage? If there is a real definition of marriage, is there such thing as love?…
The novel Shatter Me written by Tahereh Mafi is foremost one of the best books that I have ever read in my existence. This amazing novel was really unpredictable as everything happened like a rollercoaster ride. However, it did have some drops throughout the book that I did not find amusing. The three main things that I personally adored about this novel was the idea, characters, and writing style. I really liked the idea of this novel as it was really eventful.…
The introduction Boy Overboard, is a highly realistic fiction/child's literature book, that was released in 2002 by Morris Gleitzman, who wanted to recreate the story of a family escaping from to go to Australia, in the most realistic way possible. In this moving tale, Jamal and his family who live in one of the millions of villages in Afghanistan are force to leave. Jamal's mother has been running secret school for a while, and just like many other things in Afghanistan, it's illegal and doing such a crime can end up costing you your life. So when the evil government finds out about this “school”, the family are forced to desperately flee for their lives.…
The process of a marriage or divorce will never be easily explained. How do these people make a marriage work, how have they been successful or failed? Marriage has been studied over the years and these two authors give insight into how it has changed. Stephanie Coontz, author of “Origins of Modern Divorce'', writes about how marriage has changed in history. She talks about how marriage and divorce have changed, why people married, and why they divorced.…