What's your reading schedule?**With your group, decide on a reading schedule, list pages you will read to next to the date below:April 20th- Chapter 3 page 1 - 23April 23rd- Chapter 6 page 24 - 86April 27th- Chapter 9 page 87 - 146April 30th- Chapter 12 page 147 - 197May 4th- Chapter 15 page 199 - 253May 7th- Chapter 18 page 254 - 301May 11th- Chaper 21 page 302 - 353May 14th- Chapter 24 page 354 - 395May 18th- Chapter 27 page 396 - 441
Timeline:Chapters 1-3, pages 1-23: We are introduced to the main character, Lena Haloway, and the amor deliria nervosa, the love disease. In Chapter 3, Lena goes to be evaluated at the labs along with her friend Hana.Chapters 4-6, pages 24-86: Lena gets evaluated, but ends up giving bad answers to the evaluators when the sight of the surgical tools on the table trigger certain emotions in her, until the Invalids botch the evaluations by sending in a stampede of cows. Hana and Lena run into Alex, and he tells Lena to meet him at Back Cove that night, but Lena runs late and misses him.Chapters 7-9, pages 87-146: Lena goes to see Hana at her house, and finds her friend listening to music that is considered illegal by the government's standards. They get in a fight, and Hana tells Lena she's going to a concert at the Roaring Brook Farms. Lena goes to the concert, and meets Hana and Alex there, and she and Alex dance together.Chapters 10-12, pages 147-197: Lena meets Alex down at East End Beach, while they hang out and play around, Alex admits that he is actually an Invalid, and that he replicated the scars that say he is cured. After she runs off, Lena retakes her evaluations and gives the good answers, and Hana invites her to come to another concert. Character Relationships:Lena and Hana- Best friends since second grade.Lena and Alex- Romantic relationship.Lena and Gracie- Cousins, Lena is the only one Gracie has actually spoken to.Rachel and Lena- Sisters. Surprises in the book:- When Lena thought Alex was cured when she saw the scars on his ear, but he reveals himself to actually be an Invalid posing as someone who was cured.- When Lena went to Hana's house and heard her listening to illegal music in her room. Predictable Moments:- That Lena would fall in love with Alex How do you like the book so far?Christen- no.Dionna- I love it~!!! :D Probably one of the best books I've read this year!Mariah-It's one of the best novels I've read this year! ;)Wyatt-I love the book and every twist and turn of it, the best read this year.
Summary: We are introduced to the main character, Lena Haloway, who is living with her Aunt, Uncle, and cousins following the death of her mother, who had killed herself because she'd sucumbed to the love disease, and the cure didn't work on her. When Lena and her best friend, Hana, go to take their evaluations, Lena gives bad answers, such as saying Romeo and Juliet was her favorite novel, and that gray was her favorite color. A stampede of cows then botches the evaluations, and many believe that the Invalids were responsible for it. After the botched evaluations, Lena meets Alex, and Hana starts listening to illegal music and going to parties and concerts that are unauthorized and illegal by the government. Lena starts falling in love with Alex after meeting him at the Roaring Brook Farms concert, and they spend time together at the beach. However, Alex reveals himself to be an Invalid, having replicated the scars that said he was cured, and Lena runs away. After going to her second evalutation session, giving all the right answers, and Hana invites her to come to another party. Lena doesn't go at first, but when she learns about the raid that happens on the same night, she runs to the party to warn Hana about the raid, and meets Alex there shortly after the raiders crack down on the party. Afterwards, Lena, Alex, and Hana spend more time with each other, and Lena falls in love with Alex, even after getting her selected match for after she gets cured. Alex takes Lena to the Crypts when he tells her that her mother might still be alive, and they find that Lena's mother had actually been in the Crypts instead of having committed suicide like her family claimed. It turns out her mother had escaped, and may have gone to the Wilds, and so she and Alex make plans to run away to the Wilds together. Their first attempt fails, and Lena is imprisoned at her aunt's house, while Alex had escaped being caught by regulators. With Gracie's help, Lena escapes the house, and she and Alex try for a second time to escape into the Wilds with the regulators chasing after them. Lena makes it over the fence separating the city from the Wilds, but Alex gets shot and taken by the regulators, leaving Lena to only run as fast as she can into the Wilds.
The world in Delirium is what is described as a dystopia, a world in which the government strives for perfection, but at the cost of terrible consequences. The people of Portland, Lena's city, see love as a disease, the amor deliria nervosa, as it is called in the Safety, Health, and Happiness Handbook, or the Book of Shhh. They believe love causes strong emotions within people, making them crazy, delusional, and can, in some cases, lead to death by suicide, as in the case of Lena's mother at first. The government has come up with a supposed 'cure' for the amor deliria nervosa, which involves removing a part of the brain in a person that makes them feel strong emotions. such as love, and the cureds are assigned matches to be their partners for the rest of their life, and are assigned jobs. Even certain things are considered illegal by the government's standards, such as the illegal music Hana had been listening to in her room, and the concerts they held at the Roaring Brook Farms and Tanglewild Lane. On occasions, the government would initiate raids of neighborhoods in the city to weed out those who are convicted of illegal activities, and to crack down on illegal events that may be happening, such as when they cracked down on the party at Tanglewild Lane. In a sense, the government seeks to eliminate the love disease and create a perfect society, but at the same time, they cover up a lot of dark, underlying secrets, such as what goes on in the Crypts, and about the Invalids that are rumored to live in the Wilds, a vast patch of wilderness that lies just outside of the electric fence barrier around the city. What the author would want for us to know, understand, or learn, in the book Delirium, is perhaps that there is no such thing as a perfect world, no matter how hard those who strive for it want to make this happen. In Lena's world, where the amor deliria nervosa is seen by many as a very deadly disease that can cause delusion, insanity, and, in the more severe cases, death, the government wants to have a safe, disease free city, with the cure that the people in Portland are able to get once they turn eighteen years old. But, to achieve this goal of having a perfect society, a utopia of sorts, it also comes with terrible consequences, which can be seen most of all in how indiscriminate and brutal the raiders are when they kill the neighbors' dog and crack down harshly on the party. In addition, not everyone is happy with this supposed new surgery procedure to 'cure' people of the amor deliria nervosa, and there will always be those who strive to break the system, to protest against it and attempt to change things for the better, as seen when the Invalids flood the evaluations building with a herd of cows that are dressed up like the people taking the evaluations, alluding them to a bunch of herd animals. The books shows us many takes on love, how it kills those who have and those without it, but perhaps love also has some good aspects to it, like how Lena's mother was able to escape her prison in the Crypts by tracing the word 'Love' with the dagger charm on her necklace many times, and was able to make a hole and get out. Another point the author may be trying to make is based off the old saying: 'Love makes people do crazy things'. It is her love for and want to be with Alex that, in the end, drove Lena to resist from getting the cure, and led her to escape into the Wilds, even though everything doesn't exactly go as planned.
Love, what would this world be without it? The amor deliria nervosa, or the love disease, as it is called in Lena's city of Portland, is thought of as a deadly sickness with symptoms that can lead to dire consequences, even death. The government seeks to rid the city of the love disease by instituting a 'cure' that young people can get when they turn eighteen, and they are assigned a job and a life partner to be with. While the government, and the people of Portland, may think that the 'cure' is one of the greatest inventions ever made by mankind, by getting this 'cure', they lose their senses of individual self-freedom. There's no true love if you are assigned to a random person by someone else, in the same example that nobody truly has freedom over their life if others make their decisions for them. This is exactly what the government in Delirium is doing, depriving people of their self-freedom by getting them 'cured' of the amor deliria nervosa, and having other aspects of their lives just given to them, they have very limited or no choices as a result, and therefore, no individual freedom. While others may see love as a disease that they fear they may get, love has other aspects to it that the government, and many of the people in Portland, fail to see, and that, sometimes, it is love that can also save your life, such as in the case of Lena's mother when she traced the word 'Love' several times over, and escaped from the Crypts. In this dystopic world, perhaps the government is able to see its own flaws, and attempts to cover up the truth and the reality behind everything while keeping the rest of society oblivious to it. A totalitarian society is that in which nearly or entirely every aspect of life is controlled by the political system, perhaps the government in Portland can be viewed as that in more ways than just one.
What's your reading schedule?**With your group, decide on a reading schedule, list pages you will read to next to the date below:April 20th- Chapter 3 page 1 - 23April 23rd- Chapter 6 page 24 - 86April 27th- Chapter 9 page 87 - 146April 30th- Chapter 12 page 147 - 197May 4th- Chapter 15 page 199 - 253May 7th- Chapter 18 page 254 - 301May 11th- Chaper 21 page 302 - 353May 14th- Chapter 24 page 354 - 395May 18th- Chapter 27 page 396 - 441
Timeline:Chapters 1-3, pages 1-23: We are introduced to the main character, Lena Haloway, and the amor deliria nervosa, the love disease. In Chapter 3, Lena goes to be evaluated at the labs along with her friend Hana.Chapters 4-6, pages 24-86: Lena gets evaluated, but ends up giving bad answers to the evaluators when the sight of the surgical tools on the table trigger certain emotions in her, until the Invalids botch the evaluations by sending in a stampede of cows. Hana and Lena run into Alex, and he tells Lena to meet him at Back Cove that night, but Lena runs late and misses him.Chapters 7-9, pages 87-146: Lena goes to see Hana at her house, and finds her friend listening to music that is considered illegal by the government's standards. They get in a fight, and Hana tells Lena she's going to a concert at the Roaring Brook Farms. Lena goes to the concert, and meets Hana and Alex there, and she and Alex dance together.Chapters 10-12, pages 147-197: Lena meets Alex down at East End Beach, while they hang out and play around, Alex admits that he is actually an Invalid, and that he replicated the scars that say he is cured. After she runs off, Lena retakes her evaluations and gives the good answers, and Hana invites her to come to another concert.
Character Relationships:Lena and Hana- Best friends since second grade.Lena and Alex- Romantic relationship.Lena and Gracie- Cousins, Lena is the only one Gracie has actually spoken to.Rachel and Lena- Sisters.
Surprises in the book:- When Lena thought Alex was cured when she saw the scars on his ear, but he reveals himself to actually be an Invalid posing as someone who was cured.- When Lena went to Hana's house and heard her listening to illegal music in her room.
Predictable Moments:- That Lena would fall in love with Alex
How do you like the book so far?Christen- no.Dionna- I love it~!!! :D Probably one of the best books I've read this year!Mariah-It's one of the best novels I've read this year! ;)Wyatt-I love the book and every twist and turn of it, the best read this year.
Summary: We are introduced to the main character, Lena Haloway, who is living with her Aunt, Uncle, and cousins following the death of her mother, who had killed herself because she'd sucumbed to the love disease, and the cure didn't work on her. When Lena and her best friend, Hana, go to take their evaluations, Lena gives bad answers, such as saying Romeo and Juliet was her favorite novel, and that gray was her favorite color. A stampede of cows then botches the evaluations, and many believe that the Invalids were responsible for it. After the botched evaluations, Lena meets Alex, and Hana starts listening to illegal music and going to parties and concerts that are unauthorized and illegal by the government. Lena starts falling in love with Alex after meeting him at the Roaring Brook Farms concert, and they spend time together at the beach. However, Alex reveals himself to be an Invalid, having replicated the scars that said he was cured, and Lena runs away. After going to her second evalutation session, giving all the right answers, and Hana invites her to come to another party. Lena doesn't go at first, but when she learns about the raid that happens on the same night, she runs to the party to warn Hana about the raid, and meets Alex there shortly after the raiders crack down on the party. Afterwards, Lena, Alex, and Hana spend more time with each other, and Lena falls in love with Alex, even after getting her selected match for after she gets cured. Alex takes Lena to the Crypts when he tells her that her mother might still be alive, and they find that Lena's mother had actually been in the Crypts instead of having committed suicide like her family claimed. It turns out her mother had escaped, and may have gone to the Wilds, and so she and Alex make plans to run away to the Wilds together. Their first attempt fails, and Lena is imprisoned at her aunt's house, while Alex had escaped being caught by regulators. With Gracie's help, Lena escapes the house, and she and Alex try for a second time to escape into the Wilds with the regulators chasing after them. Lena makes it over the fence separating the city from the Wilds, but Alex gets shot and taken by the regulators, leaving Lena to only run as fast as she can into the Wilds.
The world in Delirium is what is described as a dystopia, a world in which the government strives for perfection, but at the cost of terrible consequences. The people of Portland, Lena's city, see love as a disease, the amor deliria nervosa, as it is called in the Safety, Health, and Happiness Handbook, or the Book of Shhh. They believe love causes strong emotions within people, making them crazy, delusional, and can, in some cases, lead to death by suicide, as in the case of Lena's mother at first. The government has come up with a supposed 'cure' for the amor deliria nervosa, which involves removing a part of the brain in a person that makes them feel strong emotions. such as love, and the cureds are assigned matches to be their partners for the rest of their life, and are assigned jobs. Even certain things are considered illegal by the government's standards, such as the illegal music Hana had been listening to in her room, and the concerts they held at the Roaring Brook Farms and Tanglewild Lane. On occasions, the government would initiate raids of neighborhoods in the city to weed out those who are convicted of illegal activities, and to crack down on illegal events that may be happening, such as when they cracked down on the party at Tanglewild Lane. In a sense, the government seeks to eliminate the love disease and create a perfect society, but at the same time, they cover up a lot of dark, underlying secrets, such as what goes on in the Crypts, and about the Invalids that are rumored to live in the Wilds, a vast patch of wilderness that lies just outside of the electric fence barrier around the city.
What the author would want for us to know, understand, or learn, in the book Delirium, is perhaps that there is no such thing as a perfect world, no matter how hard those who strive for it want to make this happen. In Lena's world, where the amor deliria nervosa is seen by many as a very deadly disease that can cause delusion, insanity, and, in the more severe cases, death, the government wants to have a safe, disease free city, with the cure that the people in Portland are able to get once they turn eighteen years old. But, to achieve this goal of having a perfect society, a utopia of sorts, it also comes with terrible consequences, which can be seen most of all in how indiscriminate and brutal the raiders are when they kill the neighbors' dog and crack down harshly on the party. In addition, not everyone is happy with this supposed new surgery procedure to 'cure' people of the amor deliria nervosa, and there will always be those who strive to break the system, to protest against it and attempt to change things for the better, as seen when the Invalids flood the evaluations building with a herd of cows that are dressed up like the people taking the evaluations, alluding them to a bunch of herd animals. The books shows us many takes on love, how it kills those who have and those without it, but perhaps love also has some good aspects to it, like how Lena's mother was able to escape her prison in the Crypts by tracing the word 'Love' with the dagger charm on her necklace many times, and was able to make a hole and get out. Another point the author may be trying to make is based off the old saying: 'Love makes people do crazy things'. It is her love for and want to be with Alex that, in the end, drove Lena to resist from getting the cure, and led her to escape into the Wilds, even though everything doesn't exactly go as planned.
Love, what would this world be without it? The amor deliria nervosa, or the love disease, as it is called in Lena's city of Portland, is thought of as a deadly sickness with symptoms that can lead to dire consequences, even death. The government seeks to rid the city of the love disease by instituting a 'cure' that young people can get when they turn eighteen, and they are assigned a job and a life partner to be with. While the government, and the people of Portland, may think that the 'cure' is one of the greatest inventions ever made by mankind, by getting this 'cure', they lose their senses of individual self-freedom. There's no true love if you are assigned to a random person by someone else, in the same example that nobody truly has freedom over their life if others make their decisions for them. This is exactly what the government in Delirium is doing, depriving people of their self-freedom by getting them 'cured' of the amor deliria nervosa, and having other aspects of their lives just given to them, they have very limited or no choices as a result, and therefore, no individual freedom. While others may see love as a disease that they fear they may get, love has other aspects to it that the government, and many of the people in Portland, fail to see, and that, sometimes, it is love that can also save your life, such as in the case of Lena's mother when she traced the word 'Love' several times over, and escaped from the Crypts. In this dystopic world, perhaps the government is able to see its own flaws, and attempts to cover up the truth and the reality behind everything while keeping the rest of society oblivious to it. A totalitarian society is that in which nearly or entirely every aspect of life is controlled by the political system, perhaps the government in Portland can be viewed as that in more ways than just one.