Are you in love with the ‘Matched’ series by Ally Condie? Do
you wish you could have your very own artifact from the book? Well you’re in
luck! The Matched Bundle includes
Cassia’s compact, Bram’s watch, Xander’s cuff links, and Ky’s compass. Now all Matched fans can enjoy and relive the
imaginative world that Ally Condie has created!
Matched, by Ally Condie, is a story about a seventeen-year-old girl named
Cassia Maria Reyes. In Cassia's society, you are matched at age 17. Cassia is
matched with her best friend, Xander Thomas Carrow. This is not a surprise to
either of them. When viewing the micro card with Xander's information on it,
the screen displays a different friend of Cassia's, Ky Markham. Though Ky and
Cassia were not as close as Xander and Cassia, she still finds herself
conflicted about who she loves and whether the Society is all that it seems to
be. Each member of the society is only allowed to have one artifact. Cassia was
given a golden compact from her great-grandmother with “the letters ACM and the
numbers 1940 carved across the golden surface.” (Condie, 5) Cassia uses the
compact to hide poems and her red, green, and blue pills. Xander doesn’t have
an artifact, but was lent one from his father. “He stretches out his arms in
front of him and I notice that he has an artifact, too—a pair of shiny platinum
cuff links. ‘My father lent me these, but you can’t put anything in them.
They’re completely useless.’” (Condie, 6) Cassia’s younger brother, Bram, owns
his grandfathers watch as his artifact. He received it after his grandfather
died. “Bram doesn’t even know how to tell time yet. And besides, Grandfather’s
watch hasn’t worked in decades. It’s nothing but a beautiful artifact. Heavy,
made of silver and glass. Nothing like the thin plastic strips we wear now.”
(Condie, 116) Ky owns a golden compass, which looks very similar to Cassia’s
compact. “Gold, a case you can snap open and shut, but it’s definitely no my
artifact. There are letters—N,E,S,W—and an arrow on the inside. It spins and
spins and keeps pointing back to me.”(Condie, 169).
This Matched Bundle will allow fans to make the most of their
imagination and connect with other fans all across the globe. Anyone who orders
this bundle will receive a code to sign up online as an official member of The
Matched Society. Each citizen of the society can write their own endings to the
book, design their own artifacts, take online quizzes such as What Province do you belong in? & What
official will you become?, and find bookstores near you when Ally Condie
will be signing books. They will also be able to shop and discover any more fan
items created by us, or even the fans themselves! All artifacts in the bundle
can also be monogrammed or personalized by color preference.
I like how you chose the idea of replicating the artifacts that were important in the book. I also like the add-on ideas in your final paragraph. These seem like creative ways to keep fans plugged in to the series. Good job!
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