Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon follows 18-year-old Madeline (Maddy) Whittier, who suffers from SCID (severe combined immunodeficiency). SCID is a group of rare, life-threatening diseases which are present at birth, that cause a child to have little to no immune system. As a result of this disease, Maddy is confined to her home and anybody that wants to visit her has to be properly sanitized before visiting.
Maddy basically lives in a bubble because she can never leave the house. Most of her days are spent taking classes online, reading, or talking with her nurse Carla and her nights are spent playing games or watching movies with her mother. Her father and brother were killed in a car accident when she was an infant so her mom is all she has left. Although Maddy is content with her life, everything changes when a new family moves in …show more content…
Most teen love stories that I have read follow two broken teens that help each other become better or an unlikely pair falling in love; this story was neither of those. Before Olly came into her life, Maddy was living, but she didn’t really feel alive. She followed the same mundane routine every day, but Olly changes everything the moment he moves in next door. Maddy went from wearing all white to actually wearing color, from following the same routine to spending quality time with Olly, and, the biggest change of all, from living a life inside her house to actually exploring the world. In the middle of the book, Maddy talks about reading books from the last chapter to the first because it changes the story completely and she applies it to her own story as well: “If my life were a book and you read it backward, nothing would change. Today is the same as yesterday. Tomorrow will be the same as today. In the Book of Maddy, all chapters are the same. Until Olly” (162). Olly made her truly realize that “there is so much more to life than being alive”
Maddy basically lives in a bubble because she can never leave the house. Most of her days are spent taking classes online, reading, or talking with her nurse Carla and her nights are spent playing games or watching movies with her mother. Her father and brother were killed in a car accident when she was an infant so her mom is all she has left. Although Maddy is content with her life, everything changes when a new family moves in …show more content…
Most teen love stories that I have read follow two broken teens that help each other become better or an unlikely pair falling in love; this story was neither of those. Before Olly came into her life, Maddy was living, but she didn’t really feel alive. She followed the same mundane routine every day, but Olly changes everything the moment he moves in next door. Maddy went from wearing all white to actually wearing color, from following the same routine to spending quality time with Olly, and, the biggest change of all, from living a life inside her house to actually exploring the world. In the middle of the book, Maddy talks about reading books from the last chapter to the first because it changes the story completely and she applies it to her own story as well: “If my life were a book and you read it backward, nothing would change. Today is the same as yesterday. Tomorrow will be the same as today. In the Book of Maddy, all chapters are the same. Until Olly” (162). Olly made her truly realize that “there is so much more to life than being alive”