Everyone Leaves Summary

Being Told what to do… What now? People are born being told what to do and that shapes the person they become. When they are older they are so used to people telling them what to do, that they become lost and feel alone later on in life because of it. Authority figures shape who you are, whether they construct or damage a person. In Everyone Leaves by Wendy Guerra, the protagonist, Nieve, goes through her life in situations in which she is being told what to do as a child, young adult, and then her being on her own as an adult.

When she was a child, she had memories of not having a say in where to go or what to do and because of the people that were taking care of her and she had to listen to them because people think children do not …show more content…
She then meets a man named Antonio, a camera that was making a film about Osvaldo. Something happens to him and Nieve is all alone once again. In the book Neive, has become the master of her own future but is left alone and realizes she was so used to people telling her what to do that she feels lost. In the text she writes, “It's been several weeks since I’ve written. Antonio has not come back… He wouldn’t leave like that without saying goodby”(231). She feels abandoned because she made herself vulnerable with Antonio and he left for no good reason in her mind. This shows that because she did not have anyone by her side and because she was alone she craved for someone to tell her what to do. She also inscribed, “ Everyone's’ leaving, they all leave me behind”(241). Everyone in her life that she knew and was important to her, that guided her in life, good or bad, has left and she felt lonely and sad because of it. This shows the emotions she has at the end of the book. She has always felt like she was alone because she was doing her own thing or she was not in control because someone was always telling her what to do. Now that Neive