Who Is Ally Condie's Matched?

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 …show more content…
Tissue samples are taken from him so when science advances, he could potentially be resurrected. When saying his final final goodbyes to Cassia, her father, her mother, and her brother, Grandfather gives Cassia some illegal poetry,poetry that is not in the Hundred Poems, the Hundred Poems were selected from many poems o be kept and read. The other poems that are not deemed necessary or suitable were incinerated, except the poem that grandfather gave to Cassia. Cassia’s grandfather also says to her to open her eyes about the world to see what’s really happening. In her recreational activity that she chose to do, hiking, she reads her contraband poetry,discovering it is telling her to rebel, she realized that’s why this poem was not kept. At the hiking, none other than the face on the screen Ky spots Cassia reading the poetry. Ky keeps her secret and helps her remember the poem by teaching her to write in cursive when she’s forced to destroy the poem for her safety, and so a secret friendship