Symbolism

 

In the book Crossed on the cover page it's a picture of Cassia (the main character) breaking out of a glass ball. The glass ball in my opinion represents the government and the control that it has over her and her society around her. In the first book of the trilogy Matched she is sitting in the ball peacefully and in Crossed she is breaking out and I think that, that was a way to show that Cassia is done with the government controlling everything that she does, who she marries, when she dies, and what job they do. She is done and rebelling and in order to do that she needs a group of people and most importantly Ky.

Cassia was matched up with Xavier her best friend and she couldn't be more happy but then she met Ky and her mindset changed she loved Ky and not Xavier and I think that's also another why she is rebelling she believes that you should be able to marry whoever you chose to marry, have a job you want to have, and die when the time is right for you and not just because the government thinks you should and have reached your "time".