Lena tries to go back to being good and follow all the rules, not seeing Hana or Alex, but one night when Lena knows Hana is at an illegal party, the government has raids, looking for signs of illegal activity. They agree to meet at the beach the next day, but when Alex tells Lena that he's not really cured and is an Invalid who grew up in the Wilds, she is frightened and runs away. They start drifting apart, but not before Lena runs into Alex again at an illegal party. Lena is frightened of breaking the rules. Meanwhile, Hana starts listening to underground music and going to illegal parties. He is a security guard, who she thinks is cured, named Alex. Lena sees a boy laughing in the observation area above her evaluation. She messes up, but the evaluation is interrupted when Invalids protest by letting loose cows in the labs. Lena goes for her evaluation, an oral exam through which the government will assign her a mate.
Lena plans to spend her last summer with her best friend Hana, before they are cured. There are rumored Invalids, who have not been "cured," living in the Wilds, but the government denies it. No one is allowed in or out and no one is allowed to live in the Wilds outside the fences. cities is surrounded by guards and electric fences. She lives in Portland, Maine, which like all U.S. Lena discovers that much of her life is a lie, including the supposed suicide of her mother, and runs off to the Wilds, but in the process, Alex sacrifices himself for her.Īs the story begins, Lena waits anxiously for her procedure when all her pain will be removed. Before she can get the procedure though, she falls in love with an Invalid, Alex, one of the rebels living unaltered in the Wilds outside civilized cities. In Delirium, seventeen-year-old Lena is waiting for her birthday, when she can have a procedure to stop her from falling in love a condition that has been ruled a disease.
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