In the novel The Chosen One, Kyra our lead character finds out she at the young age of thirteen has been chosen by the Prophet to marry her Sixty something uncle whom already has six wives of his own. When the Prophet approaches Kyra and tells her of his vision. Involving Kyra being saved for her uncle, which is obviously bad news, she automatically becomes distraught. Kyra immediately looks to her father for help but even in his best attempt to modification the Prophets mind nothing seems to budge Kyra’s fate. I personally feel the text in The Chosen One is for a modern audience. Even still today there are polygamist sects and in the past we have seen on the news male members of certain polygamist sects being arrested for abuse, for marrying young underage girls, etc. I highly doubt any of these young girls are enthusiastic about being married off and having children with old men of the polygamist sects. A few years ago there was even a bust in a polygamist sect in Eldorado, Texas where there was a reported call from a girl reporting abuse; also that she had been married off and had a baby at the age of fifteen. According to Texas laws children under the age of 16 can’t be married even with parental consent.
