Love is a strong thing but is it strong enough to get away from your family's lies and secrets? Both Maddy in Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon and Cadence in We Were Liars by E. Lockhart knows what they want but it's their own struggles and lies that they have to recognize before it's too late. In both, “Everything, Everything” and “We Were Liars”, the main characters Maddy and Cadence are conflicted with identifying and overcoming the feeling of loving someone you cannot have and being held back by yourself and family.
Maddy and Cadence both struggle to look between the cracks in their families but it's something different that they have to reveal, the truth of their families lies and their own lies.Maddie's mother kept her inside physically and made her her own world inside the house telling her it's a disease that's keeping her in. Cadence’s mom keeps her in mentally, she built a certain type of view or outlook on the world for cadence and trapping her in a certain world. Cadence's family being
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Maddy and Cadence are so similar but their situations are so different. Maddy struggles with her own mental struggle after losing everything but it was her mistakes that made the accident happen so while she's mourning her two cousins while she is also still in love with someone she can’t have, touch, or hear. Maddy is held back physically by the sickness she had since she was born. Maddy’s mom kept her back from Olly even though he wasn’t dead she couldn’t hear him, touch him, be with him and it was one of her biggest struggles. Their situations do make them different though. Cadence was struggling with a death of her own fault. She struggled with finding the truth about what happened while her mind was blocking it out. Maddy was held back from a sickness struggling with staying in the house and never leaving nor seeing Olly. She was fighting and struggling with her mom for at least a little