Aisa Radoncic

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MATCHED

In the book Matched by Ally Condle, Cassia is matched with her best friend, Xander. She looks at her micro-chip and finds a boy named Ky Markham on it, along with Xander. Confused, she gets news from an official that it was just a prank from someone unknown. When she gets the news she starts to pay more attention to Ky. As she pays more attention to Ky she starts to like him. And the more she likes him, she likes him even more. She started to not like Xander anymore. This whole thing was against the whole society, and Ky got arrested. I believe that the book sends a message that they want you to get. The message is that Just because something seems so perfect, doesn’t mean it is.

Just because something seems so perfect, doesn’t mean it is. For example, Cassia gets matched with her best friend, Xander. Now this may seem like the most perfect thing, but if you think about it, is it? I mean, part of the fun of dating someone is that you get to know them better and get to find out interesting things about their lives. But for Xander and Cassia, they already know everything about each other so theres no fun in finding out about each others lives. Also, it will be very awkward because imagine if you had a best friend and you guys were very friendly, and out of nowhere, you have to be romantic to each other.

Another example is that in the book, society decides that everyone dies at age 80 so that they could have lived a long life, but not too long that they get sick easily, or are too weak to stand. I understand this idea, but imagine if you were a perfectly fine old man/woman and it was your 80th birthday and you were healthy and loved by many people, but you had to die because society made it that way. Many people had to pass away like that. The book said that people were hysterically screaming and crying and yelling that they will not die like that.

Lastly, in the book. society is supposed to make everything perfect for everyone, for instance everything is already done for them, such as getting matched, choosing when they die, and even choosing which job they get. But those things backfire like it did for Cassia. Cassia got matched with her best friend, which backfired because she started to like another guy and she started to fall for him, but she had to have Xander.

As you can see, the book “Matched” by Ally Condle is about a girl named Cassia who lives in a world where society controls everything, which may seem like a good thng, but it might not really be that great. This connects to the real world because something can never really be that perfect. Almost everything has flaws to them.