Who
are they?
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Cassia Reyes, the main character in Matched, is just
an ordinary girl from a borough in The Society. Her life has been laid
out for her the moment she was born. She’ll go to First School, Second
School, be Matched and then be assigned to her permanent sorting job.
Everything is on track, she’s just been Matched with her best friend, Xander
Carrow; then she puts his microcard in the port to see if there’s anything she
DIDN’T know about him when his face isn’t the one that shows up on the port.
It’s her friend from Second School, Ky Markham. In this perfect world,
everything is calculated and percentages are what they by; when Ky’s face shows
up, Cassia has no choice but to question what she was always supposed to trust,
her match. She struggles internally after her grandfather dies on his 80th
birthday and he gives her a piece of paper with a poem on it – but this poem is
illegal. Her struggles continue when she has to decide if she should stay
with kind, reliable Xander or be with mysterious, average Ky. She chooses
Ky and has to fight to go against The Society to be with him.
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Kate Winters, the main character in The Goddess Test and
Goddess
Interrupted, was an ordinary girl who took her mom to her hometown to die.
Until she met Henry. Henry claims to be Hades, God of the Underworld.
He proves his power by reviving Kate’s recently dead friend, Ava. With
eyes the color of moonlight, he intrigues her. She agrees to spend the fall and
winter with him so long as she gets to be with her mother every night (in her
dreams). Kate becomes aware of Henry’s intentions to make her his new
Queen of the Underworld by passing 7 tests set by the other members of the
Council. 11 other girls have died trying to pass. Kate passes due
to the high security and help from her mother, Demeter; Henry; Ava, Aphrodite;
and best friend, James, Hermes. After Kate passes, Henry and she became
married. Now Kate has returned from her summer away and can’t wait to see
Henry and officially become Queen of the Underworld. Except during her
coronation, Cronos, the King of Titans attacks. The entirety of the book
is in Kate’s point of view and she feels that Henry is distant. They fight
often because she feels he doesn’t want her there. When Henry is captured by
Cronos, Kate does everything in her power to find him. Kate’s struggles are
both internal and external. Her internal struggles focus on how she thinks
Henry feels about her; if she can trust her sister, Persephone; and how to get
her husband back and stop the inevitable war between the Gods and Cronos.
Her external struggles are centered on controlling her newfound powers
(that come along with being a goddess and Queen of the Underworld); stopping
Calliope (Hera, who wants her dead because Kate gets to be with Henry) from
helping Cronos escape and destroy the world.
Comparison:
They
may seem like very different people, but they’re quite similar in their
struggles. Both must fight and possibly give up everything they’ve known
and love in order to find/keep their man (heroine). While Kate has the
advantage of powers that Cassia doesn’t have, Cassia is able to achieve her
goal by gaining the help of the people who love her. Xander opts to help
Cassia, even though she’s going to find Ky to be with him instead of Xander.
Similarly, Kate is also blessed to have great friends who help her find Henry.
She enlists the help of Ava, James and oddly enough, Persephone to help rescue
Henry. The way each goes about saving their man is slightly different,
they are able to attain their goal through determination and perseverance.
Kate must trek through the Underworld to find Tartarus, sucking up her
animosity toward her sister who broke Henry’s heart to ask Persephone for help
and saving Henry by helping Calliope free Cronos. Cassia, on the other
hand, must trek through The Outer Provinces in order to find and rescue her Abberation
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