Post #3

One of the main ideas in Matched is to stand up for what you think is right. In the novel, society rules everything. What you eat, who you love, where you work and when you die. No one within society knows anything other than this, this is the way they have always lived so no one thinks anything is remotely wrong with it. They wouldn't think to question society. The tides begin to turn at the end of the novel when Cassia starts to get to know Ky. She realizes that what she wants for herself is not what society wants. But none the less, Cassia fights for what she thinks is right for herself. She kisses Ky after her official told her not to, and fought for him to stay when he was being taken away. Although she is not successful the first time, at the end of the novel, readers know that Cassia will continue to fight for Ky and herself even though that is forbidden in the society. Cassia standing up for what she thought was right was the cause for main conflicts in the novel like Ky being sent away.