Delirium #2

Delirium

by Lauren Oliver

     The main character in my book is called Magdalena Haloway, but everyone knows her as Lena. She was born on the 3rd of September in Portland, Maine, in a community (a utopia) where love is forbidden. Lena lived with her Aunt Carol and Uncle William, as her mother and father had died. She was a girl that never broke the rules, always getting home a couple of hours before the city curfew, respecting everything she was told, and being the best role model for her younger cousins. And most of all, she couldn't wait for her procedure (cure against love) to happen (on her 18th birthday, September 3rd), when she would be safe from love forever. One month or so before her cure, Lena met a boy named Alex, who she started dating. If she would get cured, her love for Alex would vanish, and she would forget him forever and marry the person she got assigned to, which was a big no from her. 

     Lena likes to run with her friend, and she used to be afraid of the disease 'love', as her mother was said to have committed suicide because of falling in love. Lena was usually alone in school, and had one best friend, Hana Tate, who was also her only friend.

     The antagonist in this novel is technically the community's rules against love, which is why Lena and Alex cannot be together, and they are forced to run away from the community in order to be together. The conflict in the book is basically man vs society, because Lena has to find a way to hide her love for Alex from the community, and has to protect herself in order to not get caught and cured. A more specific antagonist in the book would be the cure, which basically removes any pleasurable, affectionate, or loving memories and feelings from ones brain, which gives them no temptation to connect with others in a loving way, and they can never experience love again for the rest of their life. They get paired up to a person who matches their knowledge, personality, and attitude, and they stay with the person for the rest of their life. They say that the cure makes you happy and peaceful, and brings the ideal life ahead of you. But is it really true?

To know more about what happens in Delirium, read my last post - Delirium #1