Matched by Allyson Braithwaite Condie
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Post 1
The overall theme in
Matched by Allie Conde is going against the norm of the town. The type of society Cassia lives in is strict. They have town-wide curfews and a type of arranged marriges. When the teenagers of her town reach the age to go to the Matched Banquet, they are paired by a committee with someone that they will marry. Cassia encountrered a problem when she was matched and started to wonder if being paired by the committee was what she really wanted. Cassia seeked out her Grandfather's wise words and abided by them which let her fall in love with Ky, a boy she was not paired with at the Matched Banquet. Cassia went against her society's teachings and became her own person without the strict laws of the town. This decision will not be easy for Cassia. She will have to prove herself to the society that being an individual is okay, or she will have to abide by the arranged life they have planned for her.
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