Matched,by Ally Condie, is set in the future. People live in different Boroughs, which are in different provinces. Cassia lives in the MapleTree Borough in the Oria Province. The setting changes throughout the story. For example, the setting changes between Secondary School, Cassia’s house, the movie theater, the Game Room, City Hall, themuseum, the Hill, the Aboretum, andthe Farmlands.

Cassia is a 17-year old girl with dark hair and green eyes. Cassia is a major character. Actually, she’s the main character. She’s the girl who is stuck in the middle of a love triangle where she can’t decide her own fate. Some of her characteristics include being trustworthy, loving to the ones she truly cares about, she’s intelligent, very athletic, she loves nature, and she’s also unselfish. We consider her a dynamic character because at the beginning of the book, she feels like she was destined to be with Xander, her Match, but then has a change of heart when she finds out more information about Ky, making her fall in love with him. Another example of Cassia being a dynamic character is at the beginning of the book, Cassia follows all the Society’s rules. As time goes on, she starts to get curious about how the Society works, and why other people get to choose who she’s going to love, and breaks some of the rules to find out more about why this is. She is a protagonist when you think about OUR society, she just believes in her own rights. If you’re looking in HER Society’s eyes, she’s the antagonist. She doesn’t believe in the rules of the Society because she doesn’t get to make her own decisions and choices, making her break some of the Society’s rules to get what she wants. This is what we thought Cassia would look like. She has green eyes and brown, wavy hair.

Ky Markham is a mysterious, observant 17 year-old. He’s considered what is called an Aberration- meaning he can’t be matched because of a “felony” his parents committed. Though, he can’t be matched, he said his ideal match would be Cassia. He’s a very observant, young man. He’s also very quiet and shy unless he knows you and you’re his friend. Ky is one of the very few people who can write, and can hide their talent well from the Officials. He also purposefully loses the games in the Game Room, even though he KNOWS how to win on the spot. Like Cassia, Ky is an antagonist to Society because of him being an Aberration. Though he’s an Aberration, he really has a good heart. All he wants to do is love Cassia with no restrictions from the Society. Ky really did nothing wrong. He’s being punished for something his parents did who apparently did something against the rules logan-lerman jpg This is what we thought Ky would look like. He has dark, short hair and his eye color “changes” according to the shading of the light.

Xander is outgoing, brave, and sometimes can be a rule breaker. Xander is one those guys who will do anything to protect his loved ones. He was matched with Cassia, his best friend since they were little. They’re technically “perfect” for each other. He’s a very loving person and loves Cassia with all his heart. He LOVES to go the Game Room and play games in his free time. He’s one of those laid back guys who just enjoys living life in the moment. Xander is considered a static character. We believe this because his feelings don’t change throughout the book. He still loves Cassia with all his heart and is his same caring, unselfish self. Xander, like Cassia, is a protagonist to OUR society, but an antagonist to HIS society. This is because he has good intentions but they go against the Society’s rules. An example of this was when he gave Em one of his green pills (anxiety relief) even though Em already took one that week, meaning she couldn’t take another one. Feature.jpg This is what we thought Xander would look like. He has short, blond hair and intriguing blue eyes.

Bram Reyes is the little brother of Cassia Reyes. He’s in Primary School and he’s 9 years old- almost 10. He’s one of those little rascals who doesn’t obey rules and doesn’t like to listen to his sister. He would never admit this, but Cassia is one of his role models and best friends that he can look to for guidance. He’s a static character. We think this because he doesn’t really change emotionally, mentally, or physically throughout the book. He’s also a protagonist. This is because he always is with Cassia on decisions, and Cassia is a protagonist in this story because she is against the Society’s unfair rules about the people not being able to make decisions of their owns. Bram is a minor character. He is just the little boy of the Reyes’ family and nothing more. This is what we thought Bram would look like because he has dark brown hair like Cassia, and a slim frame.

Em is Cassia’s best girl friend. She borrowed Cassia’s artifact for her Match Banquet to be less nervous and plus, it matched her dress (Dress #14.) She’s matched with Dalen from Acadia Provice, who looks very similar to Xander. She’s always very anxious. You could say she’s an antagonist because she had Cassia’s artifact at her Match Banquet when she wasn’t supposed to have it, causing the Officials to go house to house, taking everybody’s artifacts and not let them get it back. You can’t say it was just her fault though because Cassia let her borrow it with no concerns, making it both Cassia’s AND Em’s wrong doing. Em is a dynamic character. Her feelings and personality never changed throughout the book. She’s also a minor character. She is really just Xander’s and Cassia’s best friend who likes to be around them. We thought Em would look like this because she has dark hair and cream-colored skin.

In the rising action:  Xander and Cassia are matched and are “perfect” for each other because they’ve been best friends and attached at the hip since they were little kids.  Cassia sees Ky’s face on her port from her Match’s microcard.  An Official from the Match Department finds Cassia to tell her that Xander is her actual Match and to not worry about seeing Ky’s face.  Cassia’s grandfather has his Final Banquet and dies at 80 years old.  Cassia’s grandfather gave Cassia a forbidden poem for her to keep.  Cassia and Ky’s leisure activity was hiking, this is the first time Ky sees her reading the Forbidden Poems.  Cassia destroys the Forbidden Poem because it’s illegal, and you can get an Infraction from having such things.  Ky expresses his love for Cassia on the Hill, where they can share secrets and talk about their problems.  Ky teaches Cassia how to write in cursive.  Ky gives his artifact to Cassia to prove his love to her.  Em borrows Cassia’s artifact for her Match Banquet because it matches her dress, causing Officials to get mad because you’re not allowed to take someone else’s artifact.

Cassia and Xander have been best friends since they were little. They went to Primary School together and have always had a great relationship with each other. They’re basically soulmates. P

Ky has a new work position and the Officials had to take him to a new province that is outside the Oria Province, where they are currently living. Cassia and Mrs. Markham become hysterical because they don’t want to see Ky go. The Officials didn’t give much punishment to the Markhams or Cassia. Though they didn’t do much, the Officials made everyone living on the Mapletree Borough take their red pills to forget everything that happened in the previous hours. Cassia doesn’t want to forget that night so she throws the red pill on the ground and crushes it with her foot.

In the falling action, Cassia and her family get relocated to the Farmlands in a different Province because Society feels like Cassia’s mom knows too much information about bringing in foreign things from Farmlands then she should. Cassia goes to the Museum in the City like Ky told her to, so she could sell their forbidden story for information about the chaos that happened in the Outer Provinces. The Official from the Matching Banquet thattold Cassia that Ky was a mistake on her microcard, told her that the entire thing with seeing Ky on her port was all an experiment that they do to some people who are being Matched to see how they would react to seeing a new face. Xander realizes that Ky and Cassia really do love each other and is willing to help the one he loves, to the one that she loves to make her happy. Cassia’s father confronted Cassia about knowing how she loved Ky all along and wishes that they all had a choice in life. Ky wrote a story for Cassia on napkins that expressed his love for her and how he did/always will feel about her.

P Cassia’s family is relocated to the Farmlands where she is forced to plant seeds and grow crops. Though Xander is her Match, he is not allowed to go with her, nor is she allowed to stay with him back in the Maple Tree Borough.

 Man vs. Self: Cassia has this conflict because she has a hard time choosing between her Match, Xander, and the one who’s her true love. This conflicts between her thoughts, beliefs, and rules that restrict her.  Man vs. Society Ky has a conflict with the Society because he’s an Aberration. This means he can’t be Matched and his parents committed an Infraction. He’s considered a bad person in the Society who doesn’t get as much freedom or leniency as other people living within Society, even though he really didn’t do anything wrong.  Man vs. Fate Cassia has a conflict with her fate because she’s not allowed to choose her fate. Everyone in the Society is forced to be with whoever they’re Matched with, no matter if you truly love them or not. Also, they don’t have a necessarily “peaceful” death. They’re forced into a place where all elderly people live and they have a Final Banquet on their 80 th birthday, meaning that they will die when they turn 80 years old.

You can’t choose who you want to be with. Destiny and fate choose for you and you should be happy with whoever that person is. “I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you…” –Ky Markham (365). There really is no REAL resolution of what happens to Ky or Cassia. Though we never found out what happened, we know that Cassia has chosen who she truly loves and wants to spend her life with, which is Ky. Cassia still loves Xander, but in a more of a best friend kind of way.