David Levithan Every Day Analysis

In in novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus tries to instill many of his morals into his children, and many of them stick with them throughout the story. For example, Atticus tells his daughter scout, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 39). This is a lesson that Scout definitely internalizes, and evidence of this pops up in multiple situations at different points in the story. This story could have some similarities to David Levithan 's novel Every Day. Although the quote would be a bit more literal, the idea of looking at things from another person’s perspective is the main theme of the story. This quote is important because it teaches us that you can have a copious

The novel is about this entity who calls himself A, and each night he jumps into a different body of someone his age. A has no gender, no actual appearance, no real identity. This concept of jumping into different bodies actually fits quite well with the quote from To Kill a Mockingbird. In the literal sense of crawling into someone else’s skin, but also that he is seeing a new person’s perspective each day. A describes his experiences in another person’s body as “ its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down…” (Levithan 13). He is able to learn about people and about their personalities, just by living in their bodies and observing their lives in a single day. He is so trained to look for certain things, that just by living with them for one day, and accessing a few memories, he can understand their feelings, opinions and beliefs, enough to be able to get through the