“My disease is as rare as it is famous” (Yoon 4). In the young adult romance novel Everything, Everything, Nicola Yoon writes about Madeline Whittier, a book lover, who has what is known as the “bubble baby disease.” This disease does not allow her to leave her house; and she hadn’t for seventeen years. Nicola Yoon, born in 1972 in Jamaica, published her debut novel Everything, Everything in 2015. The plot of this novel was very predictable. It was inevitable that Madeline would fall deeply in love with Olly, that something out of Maddy or Olly’s control would happen in Hawaii, and it was obvious that Madeline was not sick from the beginning. The plot of Everything, Everything was obvious, and easy to predict from the very beginning.
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I stare right back.” (Yoon - back of the book) This is a very cliche way to start the book, many other romance novels and movies have this cliche moment to start off. It was probable that Maddy, and Olly would fall in love because Madeline is the main character in the novel, and Olly is the next most seen character in the novel. They were the only characters that were introduced, and that the author wrote in depth about. Only twenty pages in from the beginning of the book it shows that they will fall in love. Madeline even says it herself later in the book, “Maybe we can’t predict everything, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly.” (Yoon 99) They are so in love that Madeline runs outside into the contaminated world and takes the biggest risk of her life for a boy she just met, “I don’t know what I’m doing, but I have to protect him.” (Yoon 135). The love story of Maddy, and Olly was inevitable from the very …show more content…
This part of the plot was easily seen. Her mother lied to her, so she would not be hurt by anything in the uncontrollable, outside world. The first key point that indicates that Madeline was never sick, is on page 4 when it shows that Pauline Whittier, Madeline’s mother, is her doctor. Having her mother take care of her is bad on all levels. Parent doctors worry too much about their family member, and could falsify the test results if they thought it could be of any danger to their patient. In the novel, not once is there an indication of abnormal results. There is no hard evidence that Madeline has SCID. In the beginning of the novel, Madeline was too used to the life she was living, there had to be an aspect of change to make the book interesting, and the aspect is that her mother lied to her. In the middle of the book, Madeline runs outside to see if Olly is okay, after being punched by his abusive father, and if she was sick, she would have likely had a reaction to something in the air. Madeline’s character seems almost too “perfect” in the beginning, accepting that her fate will be to live inside a decontaminated house for all her life, so having the result be that she was never sick, was very visible, there had to be one flaw to her “perfect” character. That flaw turned out to be that Madeline was healthy from the very
Madeline …show more content…
I stare right back.” (Yoon - back of the book) This is a very cliche way to start the book, many other romance novels and movies have this cliche moment to start off. It was probable that Maddy, and Olly would fall in love because Madeline is the main character in the novel, and Olly is the next most seen character in the novel. They were the only characters that were introduced, and that the author wrote in depth about. Only twenty pages in from the beginning of the book it shows that they will fall in love. Madeline even says it herself later in the book, “Maybe we can’t predict everything, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly.” (Yoon 99) They are so in love that Madeline runs outside into the contaminated world and takes the biggest risk of her life for a boy she just met, “I don’t know what I’m doing, but I have to protect him.” (Yoon 135). The love story of Maddy, and Olly was inevitable from the very …show more content…
This part of the plot was easily seen. Her mother lied to her, so she would not be hurt by anything in the uncontrollable, outside world. The first key point that indicates that Madeline was never sick, is on page 4 when it shows that Pauline Whittier, Madeline’s mother, is her doctor. Having her mother take care of her is bad on all levels. Parent doctors worry too much about their family member, and could falsify the test results if they thought it could be of any danger to their patient. In the novel, not once is there an indication of abnormal results. There is no hard evidence that Madeline has SCID. In the beginning of the novel, Madeline was too used to the life she was living, there had to be an aspect of change to make the book interesting, and the aspect is that her mother lied to her. In the middle of the book, Madeline runs outside to see if Olly is okay, after being punched by his abusive father, and if she was sick, she would have likely had a reaction to something in the air. Madeline’s character seems almost too “perfect” in the beginning, accepting that her fate will be to live inside a decontaminated house for all her life, so having the result be that she was never sick, was very visible, there had to be one flaw to her “perfect” character. That flaw turned out to be that Madeline was healthy from the very