Lena Ll Chapter Summary

1. Who is the protagonist of this novel? Identify him/her quickly and the role played in the novel. What motivates this central character’s actions?

Magdalena ‘Lena’ Ella Haloway Tiddle or more prominently known as Lena, she is the main protagonist and the narrator in the Delirium trilogy. Lena has always been a bit self-conscious of her body and looks. She had described herself as not ugly, but not pretty either. In between, she says. Her eyes are not green or brown, but a muddle. She’s not thin, and says, she isn’t fat either. The only thing she was definite about was her 5’2 height. The seventeen-year-old narrator lives in a society where the government controls everything about citizens’ lives: where they go to school, what career they have and who they marry. As a result of growing up in this restrictive world, Lena is afraid of anything that deviates from the norm. She mentions being scared, frightened, or afraid over sixty times during the course of the book. She’s obsessed with safety, believing that “the definition of happiness is security” All she thinks she wants is security, at any expense to her freedom. In Lena’s
Lauren Oliver, the writer, uses many techniques to create this mood. The writer describes every loving experience Lena has with Alex in such a unique way as Lena has never experience love before. She describes love in a new perspective that we readers have never thought of before. Lauren Oliver can come to life since she clearly describe every scene perfectly so the readers can vividly imagine what Lena is experiencing so it feels like we are right there with her. In Delirium love is shunned upon and is to be feared by everyone as that is what the government is saying. Lauren Oliver creates a bad reputation for the government throughout the book, so when Lena and Alex fall in love we can’t help but route for them and fall in love with their forbidden