Madeline Whittier's Fall In Everything, Everything

In Nicola Yoon’s new young adult story, Everything, Everything, Madeline Whittier is a young 18 year old woman who has never stepped foot outside of her home. Due to a rare sickness called SCID, or severe combined immunodeficiency, she is not allowed to breathe the outside air or interact with anyone that has not been properly sanitized. Having the same repetitive routine everyday has left her wondering what it would be like to live a normal life. This all changes when a new family moves in across the street and Maddy immediately takes notice of Olly, a teenage boy whose room is directly across from hers. When the traces of true love start to appear, she decides that having a chance to live a full life is worth the risk. With a plethora of

Ever since I first heard, “You Always Hurt the One you Love”, I had fallen in love with it. The lyrics being very simply, saying “You always hurt the one you love, the one you shouldn’t hurt at all”. In the context of this story, I feel like this verse would

love so strong that you cannot live without your lover; imagine love so strong that if you cannot

‘Obsessive love has the capacity to drive a person to insanity, leading to irrational behaviour, alienation and despair’

Jessica is a sixteen-year-old girl and a runner. Her whole life is running. She loves the sport and was a champion until there was an accident and she lost her leg. On the way back from a race, Jessica’s school bus was hit by a truck driver who was drunk. Her teammate Lucy, who was sitting right in front of Jessica died. Jessica was left with a horrible injury, her leg was lost. As Jessica is recovering from her accident, she learns to get help, believe in herself, she has a new special friendship with a girl with a disability, Rosa, and she finds a new

The quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson “‘tis better to have loved and lost than to have never have loved at all.” is very powerful and very true. From the story How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy provides evidence of the truth of this quote and is also presented in the story The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. These two stories highlight the life lessons of loving something and losing it compared to not having had it at all. This quote can also be put into real life because everyone needs to make a few mistakes in order to learn and losing something allows for life lessons as well. Tennyson’s quote can be applied to a lot of things in life, like literature and even reality.

”There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Madeline Whittier is a sick seventeen year old girl. She has been sick since she was a baby. She is not able to be outside for she will die. Her mom is trying to protect her from the outside world. She is stuck in her house all day long in her white room, with her white bed, with her white clothing.

In “They’re not your husband”, Earl told his wife “I think you’d better consider going on a diet. I mean it. I’m serious you could stand to lose a few pounds” (Carver 2). This example clearly showed the comments from the businessmen impacted Earl in wanting his wife Doreen to look a certain way and fit in with society.

Compassionate individuals are essential to the recovery of individuals who have experienced extreme trauma. In The Girl who Fell from the Sky, by Heidi Durrow, Drew, Aunt Loretta's fiance before her death was always a presence in Rachel’s life. After the death of Loretta, Rachel’s grandmother began drinking heavily, leaving Rachel on her own again. Drew stepped in and became a reliable parent figure for Rachel, helping her even though he was not fully aware of her situation, “ ‘And the blues-- it’s like that bottle... It’s full of those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too.’

Hannah, a freshman in college, has had a life of asthma, major depression, and epilepsy. While on theatrical stage in her first college debut, Hannah collapses on stage in a seizure. After running tests on Hannah in the hospital, the doctor suggests that her lifelong health issues could possibly be because she is a survivor of abortion. This is the first time Hannah not only learns she’s an abortion survivor, but adopted too. In anguish and searching for answers, Hannah journeys with her friends to Mobile, Alabama in search of her birthmother. When Hannah first reconnects with her birthmother, Cindy, tracking her down at her work office, Cindy rejects her yet as again as she did at her failed abortion. Hannah finds herself asking God what to do in her situation.

Beauty is determined by society and their standards. Women are expected to be skinny, pretty and to be a thin size which puts pressure on women. The pressures of society persuade women to go through extreme measures to fit in with society standards. This is evident in the short stories “The Falling girl” and “They’re Not Your Husband” as the main characters are impacted by social expectations, insecurity and peer pressure.

These constant beatings in Maggie Johnson’s home, furniture thrown from parent to parent, and every aspect of her family life as being negative, her family situation is not an extremly healthy one. But, despite her hardships, Maggie grows up to become a beautiful young lady whose romantic hopes for a more desirable life remain untarnished.

She started writing the book when her daughter was just four months old. She was always parnoid her daughter would get sick or hurt which inspired her first novel. Everything, Everything is about a Madeline Whittier, an eighteen year old girl who’s allergic to the outside world. When new neighbors move in it forces her to delve into her case unfolding secrets she never knew were kept. It took Nicola Yoon two and a half years to write her first book. Her second book, The Sun is Also a Star, was published on November 1, 2016. The main characters were inspired by herslef and her husband. Daniel was based on David Yoon who both have a Korean background. Natasha was based on Nicola Yoon who both have a Jamaican background. Yoon really wanted to incorporate the struggle of not really feeling fully accepted in either place. She wanted to make the story real and raw and to do so she tied in little details of her life that made her feel as if she wasn’t a part of either place. In an interview, Nicola Yoon said that this book made her research more and dive into both her and her husband’s culture. She said it took longer to write but helped her to make her books, and books to come, more

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. And so it's better to listen to what it has to say.”