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Imagine a teenager locked in their house for their entire life. They have not experienced anything a small child has: catching a butterfly in their backyard, playing in the sand at the ocean, getting a scrape from falling at the park, none of it. Additionally, they did not experience anything as a young adult: going to prom in high school, getting a driver's license, or even traveling, because every day of the year they are locked inside. This is the case for Madeline Whittier because she has a rare disease called SCID (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency). Stella Meghie directed the movie Everything, Everything and conveys how it is difficult to find your identity without a loving family to support you and motivate you. Unfortunately, Maddy is …show more content…

After talking to Olly for a few months, Maddy begins to want to encounter the world more because she appreciates the dating aspect of life and she believes there is more to life than sitting in a house for eternity. Maddy goes on to spontaneously leave her house and bring Olly alongside her to Hawaii to see and experience the ocean. She leaves while her mother is at work, but before she leaves, she composes a letter explaining her reasons as well as telling her mother how much she loves her. She writes this letter because she wants Pauline to know she loves her and wants Pauline to know she left for herself and not because she disregards Pauline’s wishes to keep her alive and healthy. Maddy was able to leave because she had been stuck in her house for several years and wanted to do more with her life. She was willing to accepting the risks because, for her, it was better to take the chance of getting sick and enjoying life for that one moment in the ocean rather than stay perfectly healthy in her house without any life experiences to delight in. This helped Maddy find her identity because she got to determine what she was willing to undertake and how far she would go to do the one thing she wanted, go outside. Although this self-initiative may be true you also require someone in your life who will push you to do things that you normally wouldn’t

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