The first book in the trilogy written by Allie Condie, Matched, tells the story of Cassia Maria Reyes. Cassia starts out as a perfect little girl growing up in a society where she doesn't get to make any decisions for herself as the society makes them for her. At the beginning, Cassia never even thought about doubting the society as she trusted it and it never even occurred to her to step out of line; she truly thought Society's rules benefit everyone, and that they would direct her life in its proper course. After Cassia meets Ky and she gets her double match, she starts to doubt the society and she begins to want something more than the Society can give her, but she still struggles to completely abandon what she's spent sixteen years believing. Later, she also begins to recognize and cultivate …show more content…
her own inner strength. Throughout the story she transforms from a “perfect” little girl who never does anything wrong to a independent woman who makes her own decisions based on what she thinks is best even if it means sacrificing family, friends, and her status in the society. The characters in Matched greatly influenced the development of the theme in several ways.
For example, in the book Cassia wondered to herself. “What would Grandfather think of the jump I'm taking? Would this be the one time he would tell me to hang on to the edge with all my might? Would he say to cling to the side of the board until my fingers became bloody and scraped? Or would he say that it was all right to let go?” This shows how she had some self check because she wasn't sure if she was doing the right thing. The last thing Cassia wanted to do was let down her grandfather. Her grandfather tremendously impacted the theme and Cassia’s actions. Secondly, Ky immensely impacted Cassia and the way she looked at life. In the book she said, “Without knowing the pieces of Ky's story and the words of my poems I might give up. But I think of my words and of the cache of tablets and compass hidden away and my family and Xander…”—Cassia’s feelings for Ky shape the story and their would not be a story if it weren't for her love for Ky. Her feelings for Ky convince Cassia to follow her heart. In summary, the characters in Matched extremely impacted Cassia and the theme of the
book. The setting and plot also vastly affected the development of the theme in Matched.In the first place, while Cassia hiked with Ky and they got to the top of the hill, Cassia thought, "It was as though for the first time I saw that life could branch into different paths, take different directions” she grew as a character immensely before this point in the book, for this moment for a girl who's never considered doing anything other than exactly as she's told meant everything. Early in the book Cassia thought to herself, “The two desires struggle within me: the desire to be safe, and the desire to know. I cannot tell which one will win.”— she basically stated the theme right here in her own words in the book. This took place early in the book when she just started to figure out what it felt like to have a mind of her own. Near the end of the book Cassia said, "Then, the question I asked myself was: Do I look pretty? Now, the question I ask is: Do I look strong?"—this shows the transformation of how she thinks of herself throughout time in the book. She transformed into a strong independent woman fighting for what she wanted for her life. To conclude, the setting and plot dramatically changed the theme in Matched in many ways. In conclusion, The book tells how Cassia grew up in the Society where she couldn't make any choices of her own, and she never even thought of doubting the society and its ways, but she grew throughout the story into a “rebellious” woman who fought to make her own decisions for her life, although she sacrificed lots doing so. Cassia had two choices; she could either choose to keep living in control of the society and stick with her match Xander, or follow Ky and live on the edge while being adventuresome and independent. The conflict does not completely resolve in the first book because this book is the first in a trilogy, but the conflict does somewhat resolve when Cassia makes the choice to find Ky, aided by her parents and Xander. So the book does not have a tidy ending and it leaves on a cliffhanger to get it's readers to read the next book.
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the Finches strongly influenced Aunt Alexandra when she visited their home. By the end of the book, Aunt Alexandra was almost a completely different person because of her stay at the Finches. The whole reason for her visit was to change Scout, but instead she got changed herself. This was not what was meant to happen, but it did. This sort of thing happens in many families, as well. A family member come to change someone else, but ends up get changed instead. The ironic part of this is that when it happen, the family member who is changed, usually get positively influenced. In more cases than not, positive influence comes to people who strived to change the personality of others.
In this fast-paced novel, Cass Shipton and her circle of friends are called in to find a local family that has mysteriously gone missing. Desperate to find the missing family, they find the trail points to a vicious killer with a violent past. Between Cassandra’s circle of devoted friends, her booming herbalist venture and the wants of Scruffy her eccentric mutt, she finds her hands quite full. Things become worse when she has to take in a troublesome teenager. Winifred “Freddie” McGinty comes into Cassandras life bringing along a whole lot of chaos to complicate her
For example Manus is a very down to earth and loving character. He cares for Sarah as if he was her father and talks to her gently and with love, empathy and consideration. "Yes...good...c'mon girl...you can do it....just try..." et cetera. But there are flaws with this relationship also; Manus views Sarah in a very fatherly light, although Sarah does not view Manus like that at all, she gives him flowers and cares for him in a very separate way.
The author chose to do all of these things because they all are crucial to the story, and they help to make the book better. They make it more interesting, less confusing, and more professional. All of these elements were probably well planned and thought out because they are so important. I think that the characters make the story good or bad, and that’s the author’s job - to create the characters and the ideas and things like that, and that’s why we’re doing this project: to evaluate what the author has presented with these characteristics.
In many books there are many conflicts that each character has to face. Some of them can be external or internal conflicts. In the novel Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech a girl named Sal tells her grandparents a story about her best friend Phoebe on a road trip while her own story begins to happen. In that story Sal is telling, Phoebe is important because she has lots of external and internal conflicts that change who she is.
The novel, Matched, by Ally Condie, was a suspenseful and romance-filled story. A seventeen year old Cassia lives in a Society that is known to be “perfect.” But what she doesn’t know is that the Society has dark secrets just like everybody else.
others’ perspectives of the relationship the story is centered around. The minor characters do not
...statement: The characterization the authors use in these three novels determines how well the readers will get to know the main characters in terms of emotion.
Both characters fate and free will along with their ability to have intolerant-mind, played a major role in deciding their individual
Kicking the Propensity Everybody has some sort of negative behavior pattern. Presently in truth, a few people have short of what others and some negative behavior patterns are more ruinous than others. All the more imperatively there are two sorts of negative behavior patterns that everybody needs to perceive; the propensities that are known and the propensities which are obscure. Notwithstanding the sort, unfortunate propensities as a rule block a person from living a long cheerful, solid and fruitful life. In the long run all propensities will wind up plainly programmed. Frequently they are completed subliminally.
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In the state of Washington, pedestrians have always had the right of way. However, the recent enforcement of this law is causing traffic problems citywide. Traffic tends to come to a screeching halt without any warning. I was driving North on Nevada Street in Spokane, three of four lanes of traffic had stopped to allow a man and a young child to cross the street, the fourth lane of traffic had not stopped. Finally a car in that fourth lane of traffic stopped, causing the car behind it to slam on the brakes, literally coming to a screeching halt. Had the man and child started across the street and the screeching car not been able to stop, it would have hit the already stopped car pushing it forward, hitting the man and child. Pedestrians crossing the street are in more danger now that the law in being enforced, then they previously had been. The enforcement of this law has increased the risk to both drivers and pedestrians.
Danielle Steel, in her work of fiction, Mixed Blessings, has effectively used plot, setting, and theme as she weaves a powerful tale of three couples who face decisions about having children that will test, in unexpected ways, the ties that bind them as lovers, partners, and friends. Steel has used these elements to emphasize that there are people who have such a great need and love for children. In Mixed Blessings, she represents women radically and optimistically as shown by Diana Goode, Barbie Mason, and Pilar Graham, unlike the negative representation of womanhood in the movie version of her other novel, The Ring, where Kassandra feels that taking her own life would save her children and her husband from the shame of her unfaithfulness.
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