Everything Everything
“Spoiler Alert: Love is worth everything. Everything” (Yoon 302). Madeline Whittier has lived 18 years in a completly sterile and sealed house. She wants to go outside, but the consequences attached to the ourside world could leave her dead. In Everything Everything Nicola Yoon tells about a girl with “bubble baby disease”, and how she risks everything, everything, for love.
Madeline Whittier has spent her whole life in a completly sterilized and germ free home. The only people she is aloud to interact with is her mother, her nurse, and on special occasions her teacher. She suffers from Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, or “bubble baby disease”. Basically, Madeline is allergic to the world. She grew up knowing that if …show more content…
She writes her mom a long note explaining how she loves her, and that she isn’t doing this to hurt her. She then buys plane tickets to hawaii and finds Olly to explain what they were about to do. At first she is scared of what will happen if she stays outside, and Olly is a little skeptical about the idea as well. To get Olly on her side, she lies to him and tells him she bought pills offline that will help her survive for a few days. They then go to visit Carla, and then are on their way. When they get to their beautiful destination of Hawaii Madeline is amazed. She never realized how beautiful the world could be, and spends most of the time looking everywhere. They spend the day swimming, snorkeling, and eating strange foods. Madeline starts to get more hope that she will survive the trip, but then things take a nasty turn. She contracts a fever, and is rushed to the hospital. When they get there Olly tells the nurse and doctor that Madeline has SCID, but the nurse thinks otherwise. She says that is was just a weak immune system caused from not being exposed to the outdoors for her whole life. When Madeline finds out this information she confronts her mom, and realizes that her entire life is a lie. Her mom had been lying to her to try and protect her. Madeline’s mom had already lost her son and husband, and didn’t want to lose her
“Spoiler Alert: Love is worth everything. Everything” (Yoon 302). Madeline Whittier has lived 18 years in a completly sterile and sealed house. She wants to go outside, but the consequences attached to the ourside world could leave her dead. In Everything Everything Nicola Yoon tells about a girl with “bubble baby disease”, and how she risks everything, everything, for love.
Madeline Whittier has spent her whole life in a completly sterilized and germ free home. The only people she is aloud to interact with is her mother, her nurse, and on special occasions her teacher. She suffers from Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, or “bubble baby disease”. Basically, Madeline is allergic to the world. She grew up knowing that if …show more content…
She writes her mom a long note explaining how she loves her, and that she isn’t doing this to hurt her. She then buys plane tickets to hawaii and finds Olly to explain what they were about to do. At first she is scared of what will happen if she stays outside, and Olly is a little skeptical about the idea as well. To get Olly on her side, she lies to him and tells him she bought pills offline that will help her survive for a few days. They then go to visit Carla, and then are on their way. When they get to their beautiful destination of Hawaii Madeline is amazed. She never realized how beautiful the world could be, and spends most of the time looking everywhere. They spend the day swimming, snorkeling, and eating strange foods. Madeline starts to get more hope that she will survive the trip, but then things take a nasty turn. She contracts a fever, and is rushed to the hospital. When they get there Olly tells the nurse and doctor that Madeline has SCID, but the nurse thinks otherwise. She says that is was just a weak immune system caused from not being exposed to the outdoors for her whole life. When Madeline finds out this information she confronts her mom, and realizes that her entire life is a lie. Her mom had been lying to her to try and protect her. Madeline’s mom had already lost her son and husband, and didn’t want to lose her