Pandemonium (2012) (edit title/settings)

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• Lena Morgan Jones (aka Lena Haloway): The protagonist of the story. In the first novel, Lena escapes from Portland into the Wilds. Loves Alex, who she believes was killed during their botched escape. Formerly known as Lena Ella Haloway.
• Alex. And Alex: A teenage boy from the Wilds otherwise known as an Invalid. In the first novel, Alex and Lena fall in love. He is presumed dead, as he was brutally injured after their attempt to flee to the Wilds together.
• Raven: Homestead leader in the Wilds. She is 21 years old, and is named for her dark black hair. She does not like to talk about her life before she escaped to the Wilds. Raven likes for everything to be organized and in its place.
• Julian Fineman: The charismatic son of Thomas Fineman. Has wavy blond hair and striking blue eyes. He is the leader of the youth division of Deliria-Free America. Julian speaks at DFA rallies, and supports the idea that all people should get the cure (regardless of age or medical conflict).
• Thomas Fineman: The head of the DFA, and Julian's father.
• Tack: One of the people at Raven's homestead. Is described as dark, withdrawn and moody. He is viewed as a leader.
• Hana: In the first novel, Hana is featured as Lena's best friend. She is rebellious, athletic and beautiful. Hana is one of many people that Lena left behind in Portland. Hana was due to be cured in November.
• Hunter: One of the people at Raven's homestead. Is open and friendly, and is an Unnatural. He is one of the few people who becomes close to Lena during her time in the Wilds.
• Grace Tiddle: Lena's eight-year-old, seemingly mute cousin. Lena is the only person to have heard Grace speak. Lena feels responsible for and very close to her. Lena left her behind in Portland. Is a character in the first novel, and mentioned several times in this novel.
• Carol Tiddle: Lena's cured aunt, and a character in the first novel. Carol allowed Lena to live with her after the death/imprisonment of Lena's mother. Is obsessed with making the right impression. Lena left Carol behind in Portland.
• Blue: A young girl in the Wilds who lives at Raven's homestead. Her youth and shy demeanor remind Lena of Grace. Lena believes that she was named Blue because of her blue eyes.
• Coin: A physically deformed woman who lives with a group of people underground. Her name originates from the fact that her face is physically deformed, causing one half of her face to look different from the other side.
• Sarah Beth Miller: The ID Lena took from the DFA storeroom.
• Dr. Hillebrand: Julian's doctor.
• Annabel Giles Haloway: Lena's mother. Believed to have committed suicide when Lena was six years old. In the first novel Lena discovers that her mother was actually alive and being held captive in solitary confinement in Ward Six of the Crypts as a Level 8 Agitator until she escaped by tunnelling out.
• Rat-man: An Invalid who lives underground with others, including Coin.
• Albino: A Scavenger whom Lena nicknames "Albino" due to his physical appearance.
• Roach: Add a description of this character.
• Squirrel
• Magdalena
• Mr. Fineman
• Bram
• Dr. Branshaw
• Rebecca Ann Sherman
• Miyako
• Mrs. Tulle
• Mrs. Fierstein
• Lu
• Thomas Clive Sherman
• Aunt Carol
• Grandma
• Alex.
• Rachel
• Abraham
• Tony
• Grandpa
• Isaac
• Buck
• Sarah

Quotes edit see section history

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• “If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.”

  Lena in her thoughts

• “But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”

  Lena

• “Don't believe her.”

  A.S

• “Everything you were, the life you had, the people you knew...dust. There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.”

  Raven

• “The old life is dead. But the old Lena is dead too. I buried her. I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of smoke and flame.”

  Lena

• “Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but left go.”

  Lena

• “A world without love is also a world without stakes.”

  Lena

• “In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust”

  Lena's narration

• “If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else. That's a rule too. And something must die so that others can live.”

  Raven

• “There's a place for everything and everyone, you know. That is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people have a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will clog and clot, and rot and fester”

  Coin

• “Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.”

  Lena

• “suddenly im angry at raven for thinking the way you help people is by driving them against a wall and beating them down until they fight back”

  lena

• “the flip side of freedom is this, when you're completely free you're also completely on your own”

  Lena

• “Don't you get it? You can't tell me what to feel.”

  -Raven and then Lena

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Portland
• The Wilds
• New York
• 37 Brooks: An abandoned house in Deerfield Heights where Lena and Alex used to spend time together.
• The Crypts: Portland's prison and insane asylum.
• The Craps: New York's larger version of the Crypts.

Organizations edit see section history

• DFA: Stands for Deliria-Free America, an organization which aims to eradicate love.

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• Deliria: The disease that is love.
• Cureds: Those who have undergone the operation to get rid of deliria, or in the case that they've never had deliria, to become 'immune'
• Invalids: Those have not been cured and have crossed the border into the Wilds. Or grown-up/born there.
• Scavengers: A group of people who are against the DFA and the cure. They resort to violence and havoc to make their point.
• Unnatural: Homosexuals or anyone who expresses more feeling (like loving instead of contentedness)
• SVS: Secure Validation System

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Delirium, and followed by Requiem.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lauren Oliver (Author)

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• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction › Love & Romance
• Books › Teens › Science Fiction & Fantasy
• Books › Children's Books › Literature › Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror

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• Lauren Oliver - Official Author's Website

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