So I was going to do another "Scribbles About Books" on Chapter 10 of Matched... because although I'm reading this slowly... I kind of like it a little bit better now and this was another chapter that I really liked. If you want to read my review of chapter 7- you can check that out right here.
In this post I'm really just going to talk about the very ending of Chapter 10 and kind of go more into details... if you couldn't guess- about the Poem and The Tablets... or I guess most specifically the green "calming" tablet.
So both of these kind of say a lot about the society and I think Ally Condie does a good job of leaving these parts kind of vague so that we can make our own assumptions of them I guess.
Some little plot spoilers here... but Cassia finds 2 poems that her grandmother must have saved... which were a gift that her grandfather gave her before he died. The 2 Poems were different from the 100 Poems that everyone in The Society learns in school... so they were pretty much illegal for Cassia to have... but they were about Fighting and Cassia thought that they were beautiful because of this. One is from Dylan Thomas and the other is from Alfred Tennyson... so they are older poems and Cassia explains that they made with older words that Cassia doesn't know because they aren't teaching them in school any more I guess.
Then the Society gives everyone tablets... which are kind of presented as something like an advil or something... but I think they kind of aide in controlling the minds of the people in the society. The Green Pill is supposed to help calm down anyone that is stressed out- she mentions that she wants to use them before giving a presentation on one of the 100 paintings... which I believe is this painting b Thomas Moran. She mentions the sky has clouds and there is a canyon... so I think this could be it.
In these chapters it also mentions that they aren't allowed to wear certain colors because they are too bold... so you can see the society's powers of mind controlling the people in it... and that's pretty interesting. You can even see with this painting- it is very beautiful... but it isn't something like my favorite painting- The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters by Francisco Goya.
I'm guessing the society would frown upon this.
Also in this chapter her father makes a big mistake... and I kind of don't want to say what it is... but if you read my previous blog about this book- it is something that met my expectations I guess and I was happy about that. Anyway- he is visited by officials and they are making him feel terrible when there is nothing that they can do to help what he did wrong and there's nothing that they really want to do either I think. Cassia's Brother Bram mentions something that might be able to help fix what his father did wrong and he contacts officials about it and they say it wouldn't work... and I have a feeling it MIGHT work... they just don't like doing anything that isn't their own way.
So that brings me to another thing I liked about this chapter- besides showing how the society is controlling them... we see a little bit of how the society's control isn't really helping. Cassia and Bram are grieving their grandfather despite The Society's efforts to make them forget about him... and they can't even really fully grieve his loss because The Society leads them to believe that they may be able to bring him back using his DNA. So they can't really feel anything that deeply. The society is making the people inside of it not really feel anything or think on their own.
And that is something kind of tragic and upsetting and it's making me more and more interested in this book. I'm sure I'll have some more about it the more I read it. I sort of like writing about it like this before I've fully finished anything because then you guys can see how I'm feeling along with me and that's cool!
Byeee!
-Shannon
In this post I'm really just going to talk about the very ending of Chapter 10 and kind of go more into details... if you couldn't guess- about the Poem and The Tablets... or I guess most specifically the green "calming" tablet.
So both of these kind of say a lot about the society and I think Ally Condie does a good job of leaving these parts kind of vague so that we can make our own assumptions of them I guess.
Some little plot spoilers here... but Cassia finds 2 poems that her grandmother must have saved... which were a gift that her grandfather gave her before he died. The 2 Poems were different from the 100 Poems that everyone in The Society learns in school... so they were pretty much illegal for Cassia to have... but they were about Fighting and Cassia thought that they were beautiful because of this. One is from Dylan Thomas and the other is from Alfred Tennyson... so they are older poems and Cassia explains that they made with older words that Cassia doesn't know because they aren't teaching them in school any more I guess.
Then the Society gives everyone tablets... which are kind of presented as something like an advil or something... but I think they kind of aide in controlling the minds of the people in the society. The Green Pill is supposed to help calm down anyone that is stressed out- she mentions that she wants to use them before giving a presentation on one of the 100 paintings... which I believe is this painting b Thomas Moran. She mentions the sky has clouds and there is a canyon... so I think this could be it.
Also in this chapter her father makes a big mistake... and I kind of don't want to say what it is... but if you read my previous blog about this book- it is something that met my expectations I guess and I was happy about that. Anyway- he is visited by officials and they are making him feel terrible when there is nothing that they can do to help what he did wrong and there's nothing that they really want to do either I think. Cassia's Brother Bram mentions something that might be able to help fix what his father did wrong and he contacts officials about it and they say it wouldn't work... and I have a feeling it MIGHT work... they just don't like doing anything that isn't their own way.
So that brings me to another thing I liked about this chapter- besides showing how the society is controlling them... we see a little bit of how the society's control isn't really helping. Cassia and Bram are grieving their grandfather despite The Society's efforts to make them forget about him... and they can't even really fully grieve his loss because The Society leads them to believe that they may be able to bring him back using his DNA. So they can't really feel anything that deeply. The society is making the people inside of it not really feel anything or think on their own.
And that is something kind of tragic and upsetting and it's making me more and more interested in this book. I'm sure I'll have some more about it the more I read it. I sort of like writing about it like this before I've fully finished anything because then you guys can see how I'm feeling along with me and that's cool!
Byeee!
-Shannon
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