Thursday, August 23, 2012

Matched

By Ally Condie

     Cassia is just turning seventeen. In the Society, seventeen is an important time because it is the matching age. The Society matches people best suited to them in order to optimize society’s potential. On the night of Cassia’s seventeenth birthday, she is matched with Xander Carrow, her best friend whom she’s known all her life. Girls rarely know their matches previously, and so Cassia is considered very lucky. She feels as if everything is perfect. But, is it?

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