Summary - Matched

Matched by: Ally Condie

Summary:
In the Novel Matched When you turn 17 you have a match banquet to see who your match will be and see who you will marry and spend the rest of your life with. Cassia was matched with her friend Xander, which rarely happens; when you know the person who you are matched with, you normally don't know your match at all. When she was matched with him she receives a micro card of Xanders life information and childhood pictures, but when Cassia goes to look at the micro card it doesn't show Xander, it shows a boy named Ky. Ky was chosen to be a single; someone who will not have a Match and will live his life on his own because both his parents passed away when he was younger. This causes some difficulties, if Xander is really suppose to be her match or if Ky is going to be her new Match. Besides Cassia doesn't need to look at Xander's micro card because she already knows all their is to know about Xander since they have been friend for a long time. What you learn from this is that we should be happy we live in a place where you get to choose your own life, who you marry, what your job will be, when you will have kids. and not have the government or higher class people choose your life for you, like how life is in Matched.