Matched

     In the book, Matched by Ally Condie, Cassia Maria Reyes has turned seventeen. In this story every time a boy or girl turn seventeen they are invited to a banquet. In the banquet he or she is matched with another person who they will marry. Cassia is matched with her childhood friend Xander Thomas Carrow.  They are both given a micro-card filled with the background, picture and information about your match.

     When Cassia opens her micro-card she doesn't see Xander's picture but instead a whole different person. She is at first worried that she might have two matches but the officials tell her it was a mistake. Deep down she wonders if Xander really is her true match or was it the person she saw. In the society she lives in every person is to die at the age of eighty. So when her Grandfather turns eighty years old she feels disappointed and sad. The officials control the feelings, movements, dreams and everything in their life, they believe it is better to know when one will die instead of wondering "Will today be the end". They all live in a world where all they do is follow rules and are never themselves.

     Cassia Reyes main conflict in the book is man vs. self.  Her conflict is whether or not Xander is her true match or is it Ky Markham. She knows who Ky is but doesn't really interact with him. She feels intrigued and wants to find out more about him.  The thing is he doesn't let anyone read his emotions or tells a lot about himself to anyone.