A Best Pairing: A Comparative Overview of Ally Condie's Matched With Lois Lowry's The Giver5669916

As I read Ally Condie's new dystopian tale Matched, I couldn't support but draw comparisons to the 1st dystopian YA novel I read, The Giver by Lois Lowry. The two publications are coming of age stories of teens, who with the drive of an older mentor, commence to see that the "perfect" worlds in which they stay are something but. However Lowry's Jonas is a younger male protagonist, Matched's seventeen-calendar year-outdated Cassia Reyes follows much the very same progression of doubting, questioning, and lastly rebelling from individuals in charge.

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Condie's design, like Lowry's, is frequently wealthy with description, adequate to make grownup viewers sigh with satisfaction, but not as well much to discourage its youthful adult audience from experiencing the psychological journey of the major character. And that journey is what drives the plot. Although I go through Matched in a marathon studying session, I wouldn't say its rate is particularly quick. Neither was that of The Giver. What keeps the reader turning pages in these guides is the emotional, intellectual, and philosophical progress of the major character. That may possibly not seem practically as exciting as declaring these textbooks are about hormonal teenagers lashing out from an oppressive society, but, at minimum as considerably as ebook one in each of these collection goes, it is the truth. Each textbooks are much a lot more targeted on the character's choice of whether or not to rebel, no matter whether it's appropriate to rebel, than on the real rise up, which in each guides requires spot only at the very stop. However Condie and Lowry equally manage to make that decision-generating gripping ample to propel audience to the final chapters (and outside of, given that each guides belong to series).