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In the story Matched by Allie Condie, Society plays an immense role in molding the lives of the citizens within the society. The Society controls what you eat, who you date, and extends all the way to the day you die. Throughout the story, the life of Cassia Reyes, the protagonist, changes the way she lives and how she goes about her daily life of being a 17 year old girl in society. As you get old society changes with you. When you are brought into life, you're born into The Society. You can either become a normal citizen of society, or an aberration. If you become an aberration it normally means your parent or you committed an infraction. If you murder or commit a crime in our world it is like committing an infraction in their world. Growing …show more content…

80 is the age that people are choosing to die because when you get really old people seem to feel useless but any age lower it is to short to live. Your final banquet is probably the second most important day in your life, you can stuff yourself with food then die. Comparing it to our world, you don’t know when you are going to die. You get sick when you’re 79 ½ you still have a life to live and you can fight for it. But here you get sick when you’re 79 ½ and you don’t have anything else to live for you just wait until it’s your time. This just seem very unrightful and wrong because you should be able to die on your own terms not on someone else's. Her grandfather wanted to die on his own terms. As readers we know this because they stat “He didn’t want them to be able to bring him back. He wanted to choose what happened to him” (Condie 137.) The Society also plays a large roll in Matched because they inforce many rules into the citizens within the society. Some of the main rules are no running, no sharing food at the final banquet, members of the society all have curfews to follow, and trading is not allowed. The Society vs. the real world is crazy. You commit a murder of course you should go into jail. But trading a poem, or food can change the way you live your

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