A Best Pairing: A Comparative Assessment of Ally Condie's Matched With Lois Lowry's The Giver6554063

As I read Ally Condie's new dystopian tale Matched, I couldn't help but attract comparisons to the very first dystopian YA novel I read through, The Giver by Lois Lowry. Equally publications are coming of age tales of teens, who with the drive of an older mentor, commence to see that the "perfect" worlds in which they stay are something but. Even though Lowry's Jonas is a younger male protagonist, Matched's seventeen-calendar year-old Cassia Reyes follows much the identical development of doubting, questioning, and last but not least rebelling towards those in charge.

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Condie's type, like Lowry's, is typically wealthy with description, ample to make grownup audience sigh with enjoyment, but not also a lot to deter its youthful adult viewers from making the most of the emotional journey of the main character. And that journey is what drives the plot. However I read Matched in a marathon looking through session, I wouldn't say its rate is especially fast. Neither was that of The Giver. What retains the reader turning internet pages in these books is the psychological, intellectual, and philosophical growth of the main character. That could not seem almost as exciting as expressing these textbooks are about hormonal teenagers lashing out against an oppressive society, but, at minimum as significantly as ebook one in every single of these series goes, it really is the truth. The two publications are significantly much more centered on the character's choice of no matter whether or not to rebel, whether or not it really is proper to rebel, than on the true rebellion, which in each textbooks takes location only at the really finish. But Condie and Lowry the two control to make that decision-generating gripping sufficient to propel viewers to the final chapters (and past, given that equally textbooks belong to sequence).