She tells him he looks nice and he says she looks beautiful, which makes her blush.The air train pulls up in front of the gleaming city hall, which Cassia has seen from a distance her whole life but never entered. She is overwhelmed. While hiking the next day, Ky tells Cassia that Officials approached him a while back to say he was accidentally Matched with her.
Not affiliated with Harvard College.Whelihan, Kyle. Is there any verbal irony in the book Matched? People eat the pre-approved meals delivered by the government. He asks Cassia to bring her compact to his Final Banquet the next day, and tells her that it’s okay to wonder about which boy she should be Matched with.The next day, Cassia and her family attend her grandfather’s Final Banquet at his home. He agrees, and they begin a daily routine of learning new letters during their brief alone time at the top of the hill.
The green one, which can legally be taken weekly, calms someone who needs calming. Cassia teases him that maybe he will be matched with Serena, the young girl next door, to Bram’s annoyance. Cassia chases after him, and an Officer restrains her. The novel is a dystopian young adultnovel about a tightly-controlled society in which young people are "matched" with their life partners at the age of 17. Cassia is last to speak with him. Shocked that he knew what she thought was a secret, and horrified that their relationship may have stemmed from actions taken by the Society, she runs from him. Cassia wishes she could take some home to her brother in her mother’s purse, but knows that her mother would never agree because it’s against the rules. Not affiliated with Harvard College.Whelihan, Kyle. She writes Cassia’s work unit is called upon to do a real-life sort that turns out to be at the nutrition disposal center where Ky works, during Ky’s shift. Her grandfather is upset at the news of the malfunction, especially when he learns that Ky is an Aberration. While hiking, Ky tells her that there are Archivists at the Museum who hold onto forbidden poems for buyers to acquire, if they know how to do so. Cassia notices a girl she knows named Lea Abbey, looking worried and twisting a jeweled red bracelet, her own artifact. He dies peacefully soon after.A week later, Cassia and her friends see a showing—i.e., a movie—with Ky. Nobody can write, or draw, or create anything that does not already exist. GradeSaver, 7 September 2015 Web. She knows that this will soon happen to herself and Xander, too.At work, Cassia learns that Officials administer a test to her. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 15, 2012. ,Xander tells Cassia that can trust Ky.
They reprimand him before being shooed out by her mother so that the family can eat dinner. Cassia then overhears her parents talking in their room and learns that her mother doesn’t know that father destroyed her grandfather’s tissue sample. Suduiko, Aaron ed. However, when she inserts the microcard, it malfunctions, displaying first Xander’s face and name, and then suddenly another boy’s, before going blank.
They destroy Cassia’s birthday gift from Ky by burying part of it and tearing another part to shreds on the breeze. Later, at school, she confesses her feelings for Ky to Xander, who storms out, angry and hurt.On their last day of hiking, Cassia and Ky defy the rules and climb to the top of the Hill. GradeSaver, 7 September 2015 Web. Cassia wants to learn to write down the forbidden poems she has in her memory. On this day, he is supervising a group of workers who are destroying illegal books at an old library.
Cassia remembers from the briefing material on matching that she read that she and Xander’s marriage contract will take place when they turn 21 to give them a few years to get to know one another, although they uniquely shouldn’t need that long. It contains two forbidden poems, one of which is Dylan Thomas’ “Do not go gentle into that good night.” She reads them several times and then heads to the top of the hill, where she finds Ky. Ky admits to seeing her in the woods, and asks whether she wants help destroying the paper. She says to the reader that whichever girl is matched with Xander will be thrilled. She then climbs into bed, happy to be able to dream of Xander.The tone of the book begins as lighthearted. Cassia expresses surprise at seeing Lea in attendance, having always pegged her as a “Single,” a term not explained. Her father intervenes to stop him.
She and Ky are paired for the task.
A worker, who thinks it’s from a library book, destroys it. They play a second game, one that demands skill rather than luck, and Ky does just that.Cassia’s mother is called away on a second work-related trip. Her mother thinks it’s a warning for herself, but Cassia thinks it’s a warning for herself. Just as Cassia is finishing her last bite of cake, it is announced that the Matching will begin.Lea, Cassia’s friend, is first to be Matched, as the Matching goes alphabetically by the girls’ last names, leaving the boys unaware of when they will be called to receive their Match.
At the book’s opening, Cassia Maria Reyes is on her way to her own Matching Banquet at City Hall with her best friend, Xander Carrow. She takes a moment to reflect on how perfectly things are coming together for her: she is being matched precisely on her 17th birthday, the way she’s always wanted.
In her hands, Cassia keeps opening and closing a compact, a small golden artifact with a mirror and place for makeup powder inside. The previously cheerful man across the table remarks unhappily about how lucky Cassia is to not have her Match be a stranger, a comment that makes his daughter uncomfortable.Before leaving the ceremony later that evening, the hostess pulls Cassia, Xander, and their families aside. Cassia and Xander discuss the coming ceremony. Cassia observes with pleasure that she is the only girl that night who chose to wear the green dress given as an attire option. Matched is the first novel in the trilogy of the same name by Ally Condie. This one's many, many years in the future, right here in what used to be the good ol' U.S. of A. When the movie ends with gruesome death scenes, which Cassia and Xander think are comically fake, Ky cries.
Reassured, Cassia recites one of the forbidden poems to him, and they begin saying it back and forth to one another. Matched Summary A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… wait, wrong story.