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Theme Of Delirium By Henry Oliver
There are somewhat a lot of themes in the book Delirium. One of the themes is that excitement can be good for you,and it can control how someone behaves.The theme excitement is always good is started in the beginning of the book when it is almost Lenas time to have her procedure.She is excited to have her procedure but their are some side affects of what the procedure can do to you. There can be blindness,brain damage,or partial paralysis..”...Many people are afraid of the procedure.Some people even resist.But I’m not afraid.I can’t wait…” (Oliver 1). This makes Lena excited to do the procedure because she can be safe.The theme love can overcome anything is started in the middle of the book when the Raid started in her neighborhood she did not know what to do.When the raid people came to her part of the neighborhood she did not want to do.The good thing is that the raid people did not knock her door. Lena has remembered that when she went with Alex to the roaring brook farm she could hear the music blasting. She had to go their again so she could warn Hana that the raid is coming.”...I have to go.I have to warn her.I have to warn all of them” (Oliver 183) …show more content…
And the Alex takes Lena to the Wilds and they are their.“...A hundred-a thousand-things could go wrong.The gard in number twenty-one might not have kicked in his coffee yet-or he might have had it,but not enough to knock him out-or the Valium might not have kicked in.” (Oliver 247). This is saying that even though Lena thinks everything is under control it is not.These themes show that even though you think you have everything under control there is one thing that is
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