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.