I drew various pictures for the book Matched by Ally Condie. The first picture that I drew was of the main character; Cassia. I drew her wearing the green dress that she picked out to wear to the matching ceremony. In the book, when you turn 17 years old; you can go to the matching ceremony where you get your "match". Every girl gets to pick the dress that she wants and Cassia was the only one to choose the green dress, which she loved.
The compact mirror that I drew was what Cassia received on her birthday. It was an artifact from her grandfather's mother. According to Society, everyone is only allowed to have one artifact from their ancestors. Her 17th birthday actually seemed to fall on the day of the matching ceremony, so she got to take it to the ceremony.
The silver box is what each person at the matching ceremony gets each year. Each box contains information about their new match. Cassia however, got matched with her childhood friend Xander which was good; but she did not even need to see the card because she basically already knew everything about him.
I wrote "Xander or Ky?" because on the day this she viewed her box that contained information on Xander, a random face popped up and disappeared. This face happened to be Ky's face; Ky Markham was a kid that moved to Cassia's province when they were little. He was adopted by Aida and Patrick. Although, his father committed an infraction, so Ky was an aberration (he would never be qualified to have a match).
I drew the world pointing to society because in this book the whole world follows everything that Society says. This is why I drew the three pills that were green, blue, and red. They (society) give everyone the three emergency pills gradually through when thy mature. They have to keep track of their pills so that anytime something bad happens, they will have them. The green one they receive first, and it's for keeping calm. Then, the blue one is in case of an emergency, and the red one is to forget.
Lastly, I wrote the number 80 because that is the age that Society chooses that you it's a good time to die. They think that this is the best age to die because it's long enough to have a complete life experience, but not so long that they feel useless. Towards the beginning of the book, Cassia decides to tell her grandfather about Ky. This information was supposed to be confidential, but she was allowed to tell him since it was about to be his 80th birthday.
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