Anna Timoshenko Timoshenko থেকে Ghumar, Pakistan
"It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure. Everyone else in my family has had the procedure already...Many people are afraid eof the procedure. But I'm not afraid. I can't wait" (Page 1). Lena lives in a world much different from the one whe know today. She lives in a world where the government regulates marriages, curfews, and virtually all other aspects of life. Worst of all, there is no love in this world. People in Lena's world are "cured" of deleria or love on their eighteenth birthday. Along with this cure comes their arranged marriage and their future education/carreer. Lena is accostomed to this world and can not wait to be cured. That is until she catches the deleria and falls in love with Alex. Alex introduces Lena to things she has never known before. He has evoked a new emotion in her that causes to want to rebel against the life set out for her by the government. What is a girl like Lena to do? Should she follow the advice/requirements of her government and family? Or should she be a trailblazer and follow her heart? I absolutely loved this book. I found myself unable to put it down, late at night trying to go to bed. I wanted to find out what was going to happen next in Lena's life, a lifestyle that was so foreign to me. I couldn't help but imagine what I would do if placed in Lena's shoes. I could relate to Lena's willingness to do the "right" thing by following along with her match. However, I have also been a girl in love before. I think Lauren Oliver wrote a phenominal story, filled with unexpected twists and turns in all of the right places. I would definitely reccomend this book to my friends looking for a good read. As a future English teacher, I could not justify teaching this book in a classroom. As far as high school or middle school standards are concerned, this book would not fit into the curriculum. I would, however, reccomend this book to my students for outside reading and maybe hold an out of class discusion group with them. I think this book would help students venture outside of their familiar life in the United States. It would allow them to see the wonderful priviliage they have in freedom of choice. I think this book would raise a lot of questions with students. I would get them curious about life outside of their comfort/familiarity zone.
what a slow going book IMO.some interesting tidbits I didn't know about Elizabeth,but I found the book just went on and on about unimportant events but not the important ones.