He refuses to play by the Society’s regulations, e.g. Ky is a personification of literal aberration, a departure from the system of order that the Society expects each citizen to follow. To the last moment, the Official claims to care for Cassia despite all she's done to her, just as the Society claims to care for all its citizens despite subjecting them to undesirable lives. Metonymy and SynecdocheĬassia's Official, who visits with her multiple times throughout the book, is a personification of the Society itself: she begins as placid and comforting when Cassia is stressed, but ultimately turns passively malicious, the cause of all Cassia's troubles.

This parallelism is solidified when Cassia's grandfather reveals the secret paper of poems within her compact just before he dies: just as his time runs out, Cassia's capacity to ever go back to normalcy ends. Even if she would like to put him out of her mind to focus on her happy Match with Xander, her grandfather's encouragement wonder about him sets an alternate mindset in motion. For her, the appearance of Ky's face signifies a change. In the same way that his time is running short in the face of his impending Final Banquet, she feels that the aspects of her life which have allowed her a typical sense of normalcy have limited time remaining. When she learns that her father is keeping a secret from her mother, for example, she is forced to call their perfect Match into question, and, by extension, her Match with Xander.Īt the end of Chapter 6, Cassia observes a foreshadowing parallelism between her fate and her grandfather's fate. Cassia continually uses her parents as a point of reference when gauging her dedication to Xander.

Urn:oclc:867652467 Republisher_date 20120521102658 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120519092237 Scanner biggest example of parallelism is that of relationship between Cassia's parents and the relationship between Cassia and Xander. OL15493120W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.78 Pages 388 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:014134217X Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:02:20 Bookplateleaf 0005 Boxid IA144315 Boxid_2 CH118901 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition First Edition External-identifier

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