he story Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon is a typical teenage romance, except totally not. From the moment you begin reading, it’s obvious that this novel is extraordinary. The main themes of this book can easily be explained in Madeline terms ““Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything.” (32). Other main themes are that risks are essential to actually living, and to always question everything.
Everything, Everything is a story of Madeline Whitaker with a very rare condition called SCID (severe combined immunodeficiency disease). This condition makes her unable to leave her house, which is heavily ventilated and security checked for any outside source breaches. This is the way she’s been living her whole 18 years of
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As Olly and Madeline slowly start learning more and more about each other through email, they quickly realize that the underlying motivation to everything is love. Madeline has this revelation that everything her mom has ever done is motivated by love, everything a doctor has ever done, a sibling, scientists, everything. That without love there really is no purpose to life, or that it is extremely bland. As Madeline would say “There's more to life than being alive.” (185). With Oly being a lanky tall dark-haired adventurous boy, he helped Madeline come out of her shell. A curly haired shy and naive young bookworm who quickly learns to ask more from life. That she loves everything including Olly and that she wants to experience everything. I believe that how the author states this theme is indirect but very identifiable. The theme that love is everything carries throughout the whole book, and each character shows this in their own way. Nevertheless, it is clear what message Nicola Yoon is trying to get across about …show more content…
The author paints such vivid pictures, and relates to human emotions everyone deals with, regardless if you have SCID or not. She perfectly stabs you right in the heart, but in a good way. The love story has you captivated from the beginning until the last word, and the story gives you a sense of gratitude. Even when the words of the page are done, the contemplating isn’t. Whether or not it was ethical for the mother to lie to her daughter for her entire life leads you to deeper thinking and contemplation. Would I recommend this book to anyone? I would recommend this book to many people, especially those looking for a coming of age book that teaches you to look beyond your perspective of life and the world, and if you like drama. The author has a lot of legitimacy and credibility as being the author of other best sellers like “the Sun is Also A Star”. Sources like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Penguin Random House, and more have deemed her an intelligent woman, amazing author, and more. Everything, Everything taught me to ask more, risk more, and love more. Or as Olly would say “You're not living if you're not regretting.” (300). Onto the