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- Cameoa familiar face shows up
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- Behind the scenesHer husband's question
The idea came in 2008. Condie's husband, an economist, asked what would happen if the government used a perfect algorithm to decide whom people married and when. She also drew on chaperoning a high school prom.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesSeven publishers bidding
Condie wrote the book in about nine and a half months. When it went out, Penguin beat six other publishers in the bidding for the trilogy.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesDisney got there before the bookstores
Disney bought the film rights in September 2010, before the book hit stores. Adam Shankman was attached at first, and Jon M. Chu was later in talks. The movie never came out.
source ↗ - ReferenceMore Orwell than Hunger Games
The book is often compared to The Hunger Games. Condie says she was more influenced by George Orwell's 1984 and Ray Bradbury's short story There Will Come Soft Rains.
source ↗ - SetupMom's work trips
Keep an eye on Cassia's mother's work trips. They look routine, but they aren't as simple as she makes them sound at home.
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- Behind the scenesKy's book
Condie knew from the start that this book had to be told by both Cassia and Ky, in alternating chapters. She calls it Ky's book, though Cassia is still the main character.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesChildhood canyons
The book's canyons and desert come from the author's childhood in southern Utah. Ally Condie was born in Cedar City, near parks like Zion and Bryce Canyon.
source ↗ - ReferenceTennyson again
The forbidden poems from the first book are still part of the story. Here, Ky recites Alfred Tennyson's Crossing the Bar at an improvised farewell.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesNumber two on the Times list
In November 2011, the book hit No. 2 on The New York Times children's chapter books list.
source ↗ - SetupWatch Indie
Indie, the friend Cassia meets at the work camp, keeps more secrets than she lets on. Pay attention to what she carries.
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- Behind the scenesThree voices
Condie insisted on telling the finale through three alternating narrators: Cassia, Ky and, for the first time, Xander.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesHalf a million out of the gate
The first U.S. printing was 500,000 copies. The book reached No. 6 on USA Today's best-seller list in 2012.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe poem that follows Cassia
Dylan Thomas's Do not go gentle into that good night has driven Cassia since the first book. It runs through the whole trilogy all the way here.
source ↗ - SetupWhat the red tablet erases
The red tablet makes people forget. Watch for the memories Cassia is missing: one of them changes how you see a choice she made.
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