Brave New Girl Dahlia Quotes

Having Flaws doesn’t mean they are Flawed Everyone wants to fit in. People go to great lengths just to fit in. By changing the way they dress, act, look, pushing their true self aside, and by pretending to be who they think they should be instead of who they are. For most of her life, this hasn’t been a problem for Dahlia. She’s the same as everyone else so fitting in came easily. Everyone her genome is identical and programed for one simple task. If Dahlia acts out of line or has a flaw, she will get recalled. She has not given a second thought about being flawed, until she meets Trigger. Now she knows she is flawed and has to hide it from everybody. Or does she? In this story a prominent theme shown through Brave New Girl by Rachel Vincent,

Dahlia is constantly thinking about Trigger which, according to her society, is a flaw. No one is supposed to be even remotely interested in anyone from the defense academy so the fact that she is makes her different from everyone else. Dahlia is so interested in Trigger, even though she knows that her and Trigger “ can’t meet again, and the very fact that I want to is evidence that something is wrong with me” (Vincent 51). She does not tell anyone about Trigger except for her best friend, and is really trying hard to suppress her feelings since she fears that management “ can uncover whatever genetic flaw makes me prone to arrogance and personal pride” (Vincent 51). She lives in constant fear that people will hurt her friends because she is different, so she doesn’t even embrace who she is. Instead of being proud of who herself, she views personal pride as a bad thing. This shows that flaws should be embraced because when Dahlia hides her flaws and pretends to be like everyone else, she is not unique at all. If she hides her true feelings, desires, and actions she’s just a gardener ; not anyone

Dahlia really focuses on the apple and notices that “ its red and round like all the others growing in the branches of the same tree, it is subtly different than all of them” (Vincent 247). She is amazed at the taste and look of this apple since she is not used to trying food grown in the wild. She describes the apples taste as “wild” and “Like earth and wind” (Vincent 247). Then, she kisses Trigger and does not feel bad about it at all unlike in the past when she had to hide that she liked him. In this moment she is able to be happy with who she is and does not want to go back to the car only to resume her role as a different person again. Her embracing who she is and how she feels makes her happy. Unlike when she was pretending to be someone