A Perfect Pairing: A Comparative Overview of Ally Condie's Matched With Lois Lowry's The Giver1410703

As I read Ally Condie's new dystopian tale Matched, I couldn't assist but attract comparisons to the very first dystopian YA novel I read through, The Giver by Lois Lowry. Equally books are coming of age tales of teenagers, who with the press of an more mature mentor, begin to see that the "perfect" worlds in which they reside are anything at all but. Though Lowry's Jonas is a youthful male protagonist, Matched's seventeen-12 months-aged Cassia Reyes follows significantly the identical development of doubting, questioning, and finally rebelling from those in cost.

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Condie's type, like Lowry's, is typically rich with description, enough to make grownup viewers sigh with enjoyment, but not as well a lot to prevent its youthful grownup audience from making the most of the psychological journey of the principal character. And that journey is what drives the plot. Although I go through Matched in a marathon studying session, I wouldn't say its tempo is especially fast. Neither was that of The Giver. What retains the reader turning pages in these publications is the emotional, mental, and philosophical growth of the major character. That might not audio nearly as fascinating as expressing these publications are about hormonal teenagers lashing out towards an oppressive society, but, at minimum as far as e-book one in every of these collection goes, it really is the fact. Both publications are significantly more centered on the character's choice of whether or not or not to rebel, whether it really is correct to rebel, than on the genuine rise up, which in both textbooks will take place only at the extremely finish. Nevertheless Condie and Lowry each deal with to make that decision-creating gripping adequate to propel audience to the final chapters (and outside of, given that equally publications belong to series).