Literacy Blog #5

I am connecting the book A Midsummer Night's Dream to the novel I am reading now, the second book to the "Matched" series called "Crossed". A Midsummer Night's Dream reminds me a lot of the book I'm reading right now, because there is forbidden love, and a lot of drama. In A Midsummer Night's dream, when Hermia decides to run away with Lysander, it reminded me of how Cassia plans to run away to find Ky, because she loves him. There is also a lot of forbidden love, because the society matched her up with Xander, but she fell in love with Ky, who was the "wrong guy". Hermia and Lysander are in love, and Demetrius loves Hermia, but she doesn't love him back. In the book Crossed, Cassia and Ky are in love, and Xander loves Cassia, but she doesn't love him back. Another similarity, is Hermia was supposed to marry Demetrius, and Cassia was supposed to marry Xander and they both fell in love with someone they weren't supposed to. The difference between the two books, is that Hermia's dad does not want her to marry Lysander, but Cassia's parents support her decision. Another difference is that Hermia doesn't like Demetrius at all, but Cassia still loves Xander in a different way, because they are best friends. The books, also both have a lot of poetry in them. Shakespeare writes some of the lines in the book as poetry, and in Crossed, they mention a lot of lines from poems. The two books both have a certain person or a lot of people that don't want the two characters to be together. Hermia's dad doesn't want Hermia and Lysander to be in love, and she has to always obey her father, or else she is making the wrong choice. Cassia was matched with Xander, and the society sees it as a crime for her to fall in love with someone who isn't her match.