Everyday David Levithan

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In the book Everyday by David Levithan, the reader follows the story of an apparition named A as he meets a girl and struggles to make things work with her. In Another Day, also by David Levithan, the reader follows a girl named Rhiannon as she meets an apparition named A and struggles to figure out what A means to her and what A really is. Many authors write stories using multiple points of view. In these books, the point of view changes chapter to chapter, from one character to the next. However, few authors will create two different books, of the same story, from different points of view. Though it is still very similar, the same story, when written from two different points of view can have many differences such as character relationships, the internal struggles of the characters, and theme. In these two books, although the story is the same, the character relationships are a little different. In Everyday, when A meets Rhiannon for the first time, he falls in love with her …show more content…
In Everyday, our main character is A; struggle that he faces is that he must change bodies everyday. He cannot guarantee what he will look like the next day or how far he will be from Rhiannon. He has no control over how much time he will have or if he will have a chance to see Rhiannon. He must live the life of this new person for a day. But, in Another Day the main character is Rhiannon. The problem that Rhiannon must face is accepting A for who he is. Rhiannon struggles to accept that A is real and when she finally learns to trust him, she must figure out a way to deal with the fact that he can’t ever guarantee her anything. Though A and Rhiannon both have to face different conflicts, they have another conflict that they share: making their relationship work. They both must make an effort to stay together, a problem that, in the end, becomes too much for

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