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Character Portrait ~ Cassia from Matched Series

By Kathryn Owens, Block 5, Ms. Jones

Color

As you can see, the background of this Prezi is blue-green and the hoops are red so the colors that represent Cassia are blue, green, and red. Green was the color of the fabric as I said earlier and also the color of the dress at her matching ceremony. Blue represents the blue poison pills she accidentally took but was able to walk through. Finally, red represents the color of the dress she bought with a poem to change into because she didn't want to wear the society's clothes when meeting up with Ky.

Peaks and Valleys

Conflicts

How Characters Affected the Mood of this Story

Cassia struggles with society and trying to tear it down. She also has internal struggles about whether she should believe her grandfather and join the rising and possibly become the pilot or join Ky and make an independent party. Also Cassia struggled with the unfortunate event of the plague when it got too out of hand to cure when it mutated.

The main peaks in the story were when when she survived during the war and plague, caused by sicking with her friends and using her head, and the affects were surviving, and when she figured out the cure, caused by learning the other name of the cure's plant and the affect was saving everyone. The main valleys were Ky leaving her, caused by the fact he was about to be exiled, and the affect was her going after him, and learning her father died, caused by the plague and the affect was her family being really sad.

I think the mood of this story is a futuristic society like mood. Characters like society workers and officials make the place seem future-like and harsh. Characters like grandfather who remember "the time before" help you realize how the mood of our society changed. Finally characters like Cassia and Xander help you see the model of the society as a normal person. Also the twists on common names signal that the times have changed.

Dynamic or Static?

Important Quotes

Symbols

The symbols I chose to represent Cassia are a green dress and a paper lily. I chose the green dress because when she cracks the glass to take out her green dress fabric, it's a turning point and she realizes she is a rebel. I chose the paper lily because that resembles the cure and how her mom communicated to her that the plant would be important.

Cassia's three most important quotes are:

  • "Do not go gentle." spoken to her by her grandfather, reminding her that if something isn't right, she should fight for it.
  • "His favorite memory of his granddaughter, Cassia, was of red garden day." This was at her grandfather's funeral, grandfather's way of trying to communicate to Cassia that she lost her memories on the day the red flowers were blooming.
  • "You are strong enough to go without." Once again, spoken by her grandfather telling her she didn't need to take pills to get through a hard time. It also may be a hidden metaphor that she doesn't need society.

Motivation and Values

I believe Cassia Reyes from the Matched series by Ally Condie is dynamic because in the beginning she is a society sympathizer and thinks she likes Xander, who she's "supposed" to like and in the end she is a rebel and falls in love with Ky.

Cassia has been taught from a young age "Do not go gentle," by her grandfather. When Cassia feels something is not right she fights for what she believes in. She wants freedom for all but also artistic freedom for her poems. Cassia's main goal is to be free of the corrupt society.

[Mother says] "Do you know what would happen if I broke this glass?"

[Cassia] nods "The cloth would disintegrate. It would be ruined."

"Yes," she says, and then it's almost as if she's speaking to herself. "It would be ruined. Everything would be ruined."

With mother's strange tone, Cassia realizes that not everyone believes in society. Later, as an act of defiance, she goes against her mother's words and destroys one of the few memories they are allowed to keep to show she is done with society and ready to put an end to it.

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