"Together" by Ally Condie Together, Ally Condie, ed. Montena, 2011
Junts , Ally Condie, ed. La Galera - Red Lluna, 2011
is the most important day in the life of Cassia. In order to attend his dinner pairing and know the identity of the couple that the government has allocated. All is well. The company operates. The system works and Cassia is happy. And when he discovers that it has been matched with Xander, her best friend. Everything is perfect and everything works. But when alone in his room, a small computer error will change everything ...
Let's see, some considerations before getting to the point:
1. Together
is not a novel.
2. Together
have read a million times.
3. Together
strictly meets some of the topics that have been institutionalized in this new wave of juvenile dystopia. Namely: Femenia narrator, first person present tense, oppressive future society, controlling, militarized and bureaucratized, strange boy who is different triangle, a secret family, importance of the written word and poetry as a spur to change, and invite others to locate.
4. Together
runs almost parallel to the other fashion dystopia is
Delirium.
5. Together
has characters we already know. Intuit how to act, what they will do, what their role and how will its evolution.
6. Together
is the first chapter of saga. Another.
7. Together
shows no variation, no originality and no surprise, we need to develop a small aspect, and sometimes, uncover items that appear improvised but ...
... but despite all this, I liked it. Much more than he had imagined. Why?
First of all the universe it creates. I think so. I believe that future bureaucratic and controlling. Gives enough detail to understand where it comes from and how it has come to be that political, social and economic control based on the life and death of its citizens, believing powerful statistics and studies, to believe in the predictability of the feelings of human beings. There are subtle moments in which the author glides information that allows the reader to draw a historical and chronological line. Maybe some data hidden (or improvised) and that plays a little against it, but also justified because the protagonist does not know, and can not know, nothing happens beyond their street.
Second, the tone. The way it is written and explained the novel is quiet and subtle. We are located in Cassia and will through their eyes, experiences, prejudices, memories and thoughts that we will know the rest of the world. For the interior is interesting. Cassia is a good character and Ally Condie makes the evolution of the girl is credible because it is slow, quiet, removing page after page and not run. The birth of the feelings, doubts, fears and misunderstandings. The entire novel has a tone calm, but tense, which keeps the reader trapped between the subtle variations of feelings of the protagonists. A hand, a tear in the film, a shadow covering another shadow, a role. Third
. Fulfilling one of the topics, poetry is of fundamental importance. It all starts with a poem. No love story, but the change of Cassia (this is good because the author makes the evolution of the protagonist not only turn around to be in love with the wrong guy, but the spark is due to other factors. This is fundamental for the credibility of the novel). A poem by Dylan Thomas. And I recognize that surprised me and is one of the reasons by the appreciation
Together has grown exponentially. The trail of
Farenheti 451 is evident (Cassia excursion to see his father) and delves into the idea that the words and literature that contribute to be, feel or considered free. Write, read, recite, share and remember. Fourth
. It is very sad. And the sad
novels I like.
Quinto. Falls into the sentimental excesses, or melodrama, or exaggeration, or the emotional trap. Everything that I twitched and the trustworthiness of
me Delirium, here is drawn. Everything is very controlled. The end, for example, is small and measured. And that's just as effective and huge. No tear is sought for the tear and sigh for sigh. There is an obvious manipulation of the reader and I respect that. Ally Condie well constructed his fiction, hidden traps and leaves a novel that works more than fine. Sixth
. It has great scenes. Dinner with Grandpa, the visit to father's work, the desperate race on the treadmill, conversations, poems ... Seventh
. I'm not bored at any time. And that's all merit. Together
is a good and entertaining novel. Nothing more, nothing less.
extra
As I leave the Dylan Thomas poem I mentioned above. The recitation is in its original version. Listening to this voice a run of taste.
not go gentle into that good night.
Old age should burn and rave close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
because their words had forked no lightning
not go gentle into that good night.
The good, the last wave by, crying how bright
with Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in his career
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way
not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
how blind eyes could blaze like meteors
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you my father, there on your sad height
Curse, bless, I now implore with the vehemence of your tears.
not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dianna M ., 
Mechanical Heart 
