Matched By Ally Condle

I have just began reading Matched two class periods ago. So far it is very intersting. A lot has taken place in just the first 30 pages. When the story opens up it is Cassia's 17th birthday. In the society that she is living in at the age of 17 you go to a matching banquet. It is not common for the matching banquet to fall on one's actual birthday, but for Cassia this is the case. Her bestfriend Xander is going to the banquet as well, just in case he is matched with a girl from another city.

When Cassia stands up for her match to be chosen the screen is black. Her match was in her own city hall. It turned out to be Xander. She was happy. She actually knew her match and was close to him.  She talks about how she dreams about Xander all the time. But on that day it was strange, she didn't dream of him making things feel a little different. She decided to visit her grandfather on her free day.

This is the part in the book that a powerful qoute stood out to me. The quote is: "...he told me the story a thousand times, how his mother had to help decide which poems to keep and which to lose forever. She used to sing him parts of the poems as lullabies. She whispered, sang them, he said, and I tried to remember them after she had gone. After she had gone. Tomorrow, my grandfather will go, too." I chose this quote because her grandfather is someone she loves and he is about to be 80 years old. Once everyone in the city turns that age ,the society decided it is time for them to go.