![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone is happy, healthy, safe and productive.Ĭassia is ready for that life – she embraces the Society and all it offers. The Society does the matching and you marry your Match and make no more than two babies, do the job the Officials determine is most suited to your abilities and then die when you’re told. They can choose to remain Singles or they can be Matched. ![]() What might that be? Well, young people in the Society have some choices to make when it comes to their life paths. She lives in the city and as the book opens is preparing for her seventeenth birthday and her Match Banquet. In the case of Matched we get a healthy mixture of social commentary with our wistful yearnings.Ĭassia Reyes lives in the Society. No, I’m not comparing Matched author Ally Condie to Shakespeare – only pointing out the eternal appeal of the basic tale of two young lovers torn apart by circumstances beyond their control. That’s right, Romeo and Juliette, you have company and that company lives in the YA novel Matched. Not by parents but by the whole of a rigid society. Now imagine if that love were truly forbidden. Or a forbidden love! Oh, the tragedy, the ecstasy, the everlasting drama. Is there anything as grand as true love in the eyes of a 17-year-old girl? I think not. ![]()
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