Why I chose Delirium

The reason I chose the book Delirium by Lauren Oliver was because I had just finished the Divergent series which I loved, so I found a book that was similar to Divergent. It is in many ways similar since it's based in the future, and has a character who goes against the government rules since she doesn't like the way they are. I also chose this book since I thought it was interesting that they thought of love as a bad thing, and even a disease which I've never thought of it like that. It made me wonder if our society would ever go as far as to take away a feeling because of the harm it causes.. Love can make you do bad,crazy things, but I don't think we should try and get rid of that feeling since it can change people in the best ways as well. Do you think our society will go as far as to try and get rid of our emotions like love in the future?

Delirium Setting

In the book Delirium by Lauren Oliver, the setting takes place in the future. In their society, they look at love as a disease instead of a good thing, so when everyone turns 18 they have to get a surgery to get rid of love so that they never feel love or can never love again. You can tell it's the future since our society doesn't have surgery's to get rid of love and we don't look at love as a bad thing. "It has been sixty four years since the President and the consortium have identified love as a disease, and forty three since the scientists perfected a cure." This quote is an example of how Delirium is based in the future since we don't look at love as a disease and haven't made a cure for it either. A quote explaining what the town looks like is "Which, like all the government offices, are lumped together along the wharves: a string of bright white buildings, glistening like teeth over the slurping mouth of the ocean." This quote describes the government buildings and makes them sound futuristic too.