Controlled by fear
Imagine walking into a room late, tasting the sweat dripping from your forehead, thinking that all eyes are on you. That uneasy feeling people get when all eyes are following them is a familiar occurrence that everyone can relate to. Fear never fails to be present to make sure someone feels uncomfortable. Fear is when a person is afraid to step out of her comfort zone because a feeling or person is holding her back. From the book and movie “Everything, Everything”, Pauline, Maddys mom, lived in constant fear of not having her daughter around. Pauline claimed her daughter had a disease that basically made her allergic to the world. After Paulines husband and son died she felt like lying to her daughter was the only way …show more content…
She has followed the same routine everyday for as long as she could remember. Maddy wore the same clothes, ate the same food, and saw the same two people. All seventeen years of her life she never thought anything of her so called disease, even when she got curious about the outside world she would instantly bury those thoughts deep down. When Maddy walked into her room, she saw a boy next to a moving truck across the street, then she realized she had butterflies in her stomach.. When the boy, Olly, moves in across the street from Maddy and she would watch him from her window and think about what her life would be like if she didn’t have her disease that made her allergic to the world outside of her plain, white, boring house. When Maddy decides she wants to talk to the boy across the street she finds the confidence to write her email on the window and from then on their friendship begins. As time goes on she wants to meet Olly in person. Carla, Maddys caretaker helps the two secretly meet up. Olly goes through all the sanitations and precautions and follows all the rules, including no touching. Even after breaking rules and getting to meet Olly Maddy decides she is still hungry for more. She finally makes the choice that her disease will no longer hold her back. One night
Imagine walking into a room late, tasting the sweat dripping from your forehead, thinking that all eyes are on you. That uneasy feeling people get when all eyes are following them is a familiar occurrence that everyone can relate to. Fear never fails to be present to make sure someone feels uncomfortable. Fear is when a person is afraid to step out of her comfort zone because a feeling or person is holding her back. From the book and movie “Everything, Everything”, Pauline, Maddys mom, lived in constant fear of not having her daughter around. Pauline claimed her daughter had a disease that basically made her allergic to the world. After Paulines husband and son died she felt like lying to her daughter was the only way …show more content…
She has followed the same routine everyday for as long as she could remember. Maddy wore the same clothes, ate the same food, and saw the same two people. All seventeen years of her life she never thought anything of her so called disease, even when she got curious about the outside world she would instantly bury those thoughts deep down. When Maddy walked into her room, she saw a boy next to a moving truck across the street, then she realized she had butterflies in her stomach.. When the boy, Olly, moves in across the street from Maddy and she would watch him from her window and think about what her life would be like if she didn’t have her disease that made her allergic to the world outside of her plain, white, boring house. When Maddy decides she wants to talk to the boy across the street she finds the confidence to write her email on the window and from then on their friendship begins. As time goes on she wants to meet Olly in person. Carla, Maddys caretaker helps the two secretly meet up. Olly goes through all the sanitations and precautions and follows all the rules, including no touching. Even after breaking rules and getting to meet Olly Maddy decides she is still hungry for more. She finally makes the choice that her disease will no longer hold her back. One night