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Everything Everything By Nicola Yoon Essay

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Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon, a romantic young adult fiction, is about Madeline Whittier a smart, optimistic, 18-year-old who has spent her entire life trapped inside a bubble. Due to her severe immune deficiency disease, which she refers to as “bubble baby disease”, she hasn’t left her house in 17 years (3). She has also never fully been exposed to love from anybody other than her nurse Carla and her mom. Everything changes when a new family moves in next door, and she begins to form a special bond with the boy, Olly. A simple emailing relationship evolves into something much bigger throughout the progression of this book. Olly and Madeline go on several romantic adventures outside, where she discovers her true self and learns something …show more content…

Madeline Whittier, the main character in this book is optimistic, daring and smart. Nicola Yoon certainly brings out the daring side of her without over exaggerating it, giving it a realistic feel. She does this by having her take daring actions throughout the entirety of the book while also consulting the emotional aspect of worry in her mind and of what could possibly go wrong. This is shown in the scene where she goes cliff diving and says “I can’t swim” and “Considering what the future may hold, jump off this cliff doesn’t seem so scary at all” (210). From the first set of dialog to the second her emotional status changes. At first, she is filled with doubt as she thinks about the dangers of jumping. In the second piece of dialog, realizing this may be her only chance to ever fulfill this experience despite her own doubts, she decides to take the …show more content…

When Madeline was younger she personally diagnosed her with this disease. When Madeline got sick in Hawaii she visited a doctor who told her she believes she isn’t allergic to the world. When Madeline went to confront her mother about this without a single second of doubt, she immediately comforted Madeline telling her this isn’t true. She didn’t even think to acknowledge what another doctor said. At the end of the book, you discover that she had been lying to Madeline her entire life. This part of the book shows how her mom wanted to protect Madeline her entire life from the outside

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