Another Day David Levithan Analysis

The book, Another Day is written by David Levithan. A lot of people say that Another Day is a companion to the New York Times bestselling novel Every day, but according to David Levithan it is actually a twin book because readers can still understand it even if they have not read Every Day. It is dramatic but also uplifting and romantic.The content of the book is the same as Every Day, except the book is based on the point of view of a teenage girl, whose name is Rhiannon.

Things have been complicated between Rhiannon and his boyfriend, Justin, for a long time. They have a love-hate relationship. His moodiness and selfish behavior makes Rhiannon upset, but what she feels for him are so strong that she does not want to give up on them. But

A is used to people that come and go since he always leave his/her life in the past, not until he/she met Rhiannon. He/she wants to keep in touch with her. The author wants to tell us that we always need someone who we can tell what we feel and think for us to be understood and to feel belong. We are social being and should not be isolated. The novel is unique because the story is far from reality, a person that jumps into another person’s body everyday. The purpose of the author is for us to see the inside of a person rather than the appearance. Looks don’t matter, but sometimes they do. Rhiannon struggles about her concept on A’s personhood. She envision A as she/he was when they first met, in the body of Justin. But A is sure about his/her feelings for Rhiannon, he/she has always been loyal to her. Even though he/she meets girls that are more beautiful than Rhiannon, he/she only has his/her eyes on her. As what A says “I find myself looking into people’s eyes more than I ever did before. And I realize, that is where we stop being a certain gender or color. Just look right into the center of the eye.” The book asks us if we can fall for someone based entirely on personality or not. The author also discusses about sexuality and gender. A jumps from one body to another every day, and he/she switches in the body of a girl and boy. That is why he/ she is not too bothered about gender, he/she may fall for either. But Rhiannon likes boys, and she wants them to be Justin-like in appearance. And that is okay, to have a type. But it throws conflict into their relationship, the novel’s idea is that it is just a wrench worth talking about. I think most of the readers have background informations of the story because they may have already read Every day. The book is easy to understand because most words that were used are not so deep, but readers can