I have started reading Matched by Ally Condie. It is about a seventeen year old girl who lives in a futuristic society where the government makes all most all of your decisions for you. They decide who you will marry, where you will work, what you will wear, and when you will die. The main character in my book, Cassia, does not see any problem with the way society is, just like all the other characters in the book. The day of her seventeenth birthday she attends her matching ceremony, a banquet everyone attends after they turned seventeen to see who the will marry. She rides with her best friend Xander who she has known since childhood. The match banquet is a huge event so everyone participating get dressed up for it. ''It is easy to identify those of us being Matched; not only are we younger than all of the others, but we also float along in beautiful dresses and tailored suits while our parents and older siblings walk around in plainclothes, a background against which we bloom" (Condie 9). When it is Cassia's turn to get matched no ones face appears on the screen. The chapter ends as a cliff hanger with the screen staying black.

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