Analysis Of Delirium, By Lauren Oliver

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In our world today, being different is a good thing. Everyone tells people to be unique from others around us. Even though this might be the case today, the book Delirium, thinks different. The government of their society wants everyone to be cured from the so called disease, love. Lena, the main character, can’t wait to be cured in ninety-nine days but between those days the unexpected happens. She falls in love. The book, Delirium, by Lauren Oliver shows that, sometimes people can make people make decisions you would never choose. Certainly it could be said that the decisions people make for you may not always be bad, that's not always true. While that is a good point, they fail to see the opposite side of the argument where people are …show more content…

“It Alex doesn’t come I’ll need to generate a plan of my own”(Oliver 422). This shows the theme because she would have never wanted to fall in love with a guy even after she was cured but she did anyways because she loved him. This is important because, if she had never fallen in love with Alex, none of this would have happened and she would have gotten cured without worrying about what Alex is doing and whether he will come to her when she’s being cured. When being connected with other people, they can sometimes make decisions for you that you wouldn’t approve. In the book, Lena and Alex meet each other at their interviews and quickly fall in love. The problem with this is that their society claims love as a disease. He forces her to do many things because they love each other. Especially when they get into a huge argument but Alex wants them to forgive each other. Only because he loves her. The next time you find yourself choosing people's decisions, remind yourself that your decisions could change what they want and end them not knowing what they are going to

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