Plot:
Magdelena “Lena” Haloway was the daughter of the women who committed suicide. For her mother, the Cure never worked, making her acceptable to diseases like delirium. After the first procedure, the second was followed without being put under anesthetic, as they fear it was the drug keeping the Cure from working. When the third procedure did not work, and the lab was preparing for the fourth, Lena’s did the unthinkable as she held her daughter tight she whispered: “ I love you” (41). Moving in with her aunt and uncle, Lena was determined to stay on the straight line as she starts counting down the days till her eighteenth birthday, the day she can get the Cure. With less than a hundred days till her birthday, Lena meets Alex, and older …show more content…
Lena, our main gal, knows lost at a young age, one too young to understand. When her father died when she was an infant (From cancer), she never got to meet him, or understand her mother’s grief over him, where other aggined coples could barely make eye contact in public. Her mother, who loved to sing and dance, to confront her children by holding them tight, actions that were considered suspicious and illegal in some ways. The Cure was supposed to save you from the feelings of loneliness, the hurt and pain. But unable to cure just the bad parts, they have to take the raw feelings of love, replacing it with a silicon look-alike, and making real love illegal. After all the people you love the most are the ones that can hurt you, so to get rid of that hurt, you have to get rid of that love. That is the part that Oliver really got about this novel, that pain is better than feelings nothing at all. Because sometimes you put all your hopes and dreams of the future on one person, and they disappoint. Thus to save oneself from that pain they have the Cure, assign your career path, and determined who you are going to marry by given a choice of four. The first in a trilogy, Lena’s story is far from over, as she learns the truth about the goverment, her family, and most importantly: the truth about
Magdelena “Lena” Haloway was the daughter of the women who committed suicide. For her mother, the Cure never worked, making her acceptable to diseases like delirium. After the first procedure, the second was followed without being put under anesthetic, as they fear it was the drug keeping the Cure from working. When the third procedure did not work, and the lab was preparing for the fourth, Lena’s did the unthinkable as she held her daughter tight she whispered: “ I love you” (41). Moving in with her aunt and uncle, Lena was determined to stay on the straight line as she starts counting down the days till her eighteenth birthday, the day she can get the Cure. With less than a hundred days till her birthday, Lena meets Alex, and older …show more content…
Lena, our main gal, knows lost at a young age, one too young to understand. When her father died when she was an infant (From cancer), she never got to meet him, or understand her mother’s grief over him, where other aggined coples could barely make eye contact in public. Her mother, who loved to sing and dance, to confront her children by holding them tight, actions that were considered suspicious and illegal in some ways. The Cure was supposed to save you from the feelings of loneliness, the hurt and pain. But unable to cure just the bad parts, they have to take the raw feelings of love, replacing it with a silicon look-alike, and making real love illegal. After all the people you love the most are the ones that can hurt you, so to get rid of that hurt, you have to get rid of that love. That is the part that Oliver really got about this novel, that pain is better than feelings nothing at all. Because sometimes you put all your hopes and dreams of the future on one person, and they disappoint. Thus to save oneself from that pain they have the Cure, assign your career path, and determined who you are going to marry by given a choice of four. The first in a trilogy, Lena’s story is far from over, as she learns the truth about the goverment, her family, and most importantly: the truth about