How It All Goes Down
- Aunt Carol walks Lena down to the laboratories where the evaluation will be conducted.
- Lena's friend Hana runs up while Lena is waiting in line to be evaluated. Hana is gorgeous, blonde, and basically everything Lena is not. Lena doesn't have a very high opinion of herself, sadly.
- Lena's worried about Hana because she's been getting trouble at school and just generally looking like she's going to run away. Even worse, Hana's been saying stuff like, "if [the government] really wants us to be happy, they'd let us pick ourselves" (3.41). Speaking out against the government, the matching, the evaluations, etc., is a big no-no. So much so that all this rebelliousness causes Lena to gasp and clutch her pearls.
- When the two get to the front of the line, they have to split up for their individual evaluations.