A Perfect Pairing: A Comparative Evaluation of Ally Condie's Matched With Lois Lowry's The Giver4514858

As I read through Ally Condie's new dystopian tale Matched, I couldn't help but draw comparisons to the 1st dystopian YA novel I read through, The Giver by Lois Lowry. Each books are coming of age stories of teenagers, who with the press of an more mature mentor, begin to see that the "perfect" worlds in which they stay are anything at all but. Though Lowry's Jonas is a younger male protagonist, Matched's seventeen-12 months-aged Cassia Reyes follows a lot the exact same progression of doubting, questioning, and last but not least rebelling in opposition to these in charge.

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Condie's style, like Lowry's, is typically wealthy with description, adequate to make grownup readers sigh with enjoyment, but not too much to discourage its younger adult viewers from enjoying the emotional journey of the principal character. And that journey is what drives the plot. Although I study Matched in a marathon looking through session, I wouldn't say its rate is especially rapidly. Neither was that of The Giver. What keeps the reader turning pages in these textbooks is the emotional, mental, and philosophical development of the main character. That might not seem virtually as interesting as expressing these guides are about hormonal teens lashing out against an oppressive society, but, at least as considerably as book 1 in each and every of these collection goes, it's the truth. Equally publications are much a lot more focused on the character's choice of no matter whether or not to rebel, whether it's right to rebel, than on the actual riot, which in each guides will take location only at the very end. Nevertheless Condie and Lowry the two control to make that decision-generating gripping enough to propel visitors to the last chapters (and beyond, given that the two publications belong to collection).