Matched by Ally Condie

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Summary "Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world." "Matched" by Ally Condie. This book is about a girl named Cassia and a boy name Xander. This novel is about how society is incharge of EVERYTHING. Let me start from the beggining. There was a girl name Cassia Reyes, she is seventeen years old and she is getting ready for her Match Banquet. A Match Banquet is a banquet that you go to when you are seventeen and the society will choose you loved ones. They choose who your match will be, what your job is, and when you die. The Match Banquet happens every year for all the children who will be turning seventeen or who are already seventeen. The Match Banquet is located at a hall and it is very big, of course. All the seventeen year olds and there family sit together at a table. The announcer will call up a girl one by one and she will have to stand up. There is a big screen that reveals your "matched" and you have no choice but to stay with your match. You could marry your match but you would have to be twenty one. Anyways, back to my novel. Cassia is wearing her green dres waiting for her mom to go to the Match Banquet. Once they arrived there, they sat down, eat and the Banquet was about to begin. All of the girls at the Banquet were mostly wearing pink dresses. It was all quiet and the announcers would call up a girl one by one. If your name was called, then you would have to stand up and look at the screen to see your match. It was finally Cassia's turn. The announcer called her name and Cassia stood up with a big smile and starred at the big screen. It took a while because there wasn't a name or picture that appeared on the screen. It was all black and everyone got very suspicious. You could hear the voices of one person on to the other person saying "This never happened before. Oh my god. What is happening." Also, "Where is her
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