So this book is all about love. It's about how love is forbidden in society, how people try to prevent it, how it develops between characters and how it's being fought for. I think maybe Lauren Oliver recognized how love is a huge part of our society, and decided to base her books on that. In our society today, love is everywhere. It's in songs, movies, magazines, books, billboards, stores, pretty much everywhere. We say the word millions of times a day. We say we love people, we say we love animals and we even say we love objects. Lauren Oliver may have wanted to give us a taste of what it would be like without it.
In the book, the word love isn't even allowed to be said. They call it delirium. Everyone is afraid of it. Lena, the main character has been infected with it and now fights for the freedom to love.
At the end of the first book, Lena has escaped the boundary of her city to live in the Wilds, but she has left behind, Alex, her only reason for escaping at all. In the next book, Lena starts over and falls in love with someone else and continues her fight for love. Oliver I think wanted to show how influential love is and how it affects what we do, how we feel, and how our future plays out. It completely changed Lena's life. Oliver wrote, "A world without love is also a world without stakes." This illustrates how love is something that people take risks for, something for someone to lose.
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