Rules are meant to be broken

The next day Cassia and her family went to her Grandfather's Final banquet. The final banquet is when is your 80th birthday and they allow you, family and friends to eat whatever they want. They also talk and then the friends leave and the family stays to see how they inject a freezing substance to keep the body fresh until they found a way to bring back the life with some examples that the family should keep safe. The last time Cassia talked to her Grandfather he showed her a paper that was hidden in her compact. Some days later Cassia went to the theatre with her friends. She sat between Xander and Ky who is the boy that appeared in the micro card they gave Cassia with Xande's information. Cassia singed-up for hiking as a summer activity just like Ky. When she was up in the hill where no one could see her she opened her compact and pulled out the paper. It was a poem. The she heard someone coming so she hide the poem and started to run. When she got to the top of the hill there was an Officer and Ky. She got close to Ky to see what he was doing because he was drawing in the dirt. Ky confessed that he was writing. This was rare to Cassia because in her society they don't know how to write, they only know how to type with some symbols they invented to make things easier. Ky also told her that he saw her with the poem but he will keep the secret if she keep his secret too. Ky then promised to teach Cassia how to write. When she got home she saw officers in her house. She got nervous because she thought it was her fault but it wasn't. What happened was that her father lost her grandfather's samples, that was the only way to bring him back to life but now he is gone forever. The next day hiking was canceled because the bad weather. She took advantage of the situation and she went to her father's work to burn the poem because she thought that it was too much of a risk to keep it. After school Cassia went home and she told her father about the poem and how she destroy it. Her father confessed that he destroyed grandpa's samples because he asked him to. Cassia was very sad and disappointed.

"I did what I had to do; I did the right thing." (132)

In this part of the book Cassia just burned the poem that her Grandfather gave her. Now she is trying to convince herself that she did the right thing but she is feeling bad about what she did. When I read that part the only thing that I was thinking was that rules are meant to be broken and that she should do what her heart says, not what society tell her to do. Then she will regret everything she did. Another example where Cassia breaks the rules is when she asks Ky to teach her how to write.

"I should tell him about Ky's face on the screen. I should tell him about Ky in the woods, how saw the poem. I should tell Xander about the poem itself and the way I felt to let it go. Instead, I shake my head. I don't want to talk right now." (128)

Cassia should tell everything to Xander and she prefers to keep the secret for her MATCH. In my opinion she should tell Xander everything because he will eventually find out the truth sooner or later and when he finds out we will be mad and disappointed in Cassia for hiding him the truth and then there will be more trouble that there would be now. 

My prediction is that Xander will find out and he will claim to the Officials and they will forbid Cassia to see Ky again, they will not allow her to continue hiking and she will not be able to read poems even though they are from the Hundred Poems chosen by the society. She will continue go hiking and seeing Ky even though she shouldn't. Also she will regret burning the poem because that and her compact where that last things she had from he Grandfather.