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What Does Everything Mean To Me Essay

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You wake up in the same room you’ve been in your whole life. You see the familiar walls you look at every single day. You get up, get dressed in the same outfit you wear every single day: blue jeans and a white t-shirt. As you go downstairs, you see all of the same exact stuff as the day before, and the week before, and the month before. You go through your daily routine of eating breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack between every meal. You do your online homework, you read, you walk around doing absolutely nothing. You watch tv with your mother, then you go to bed. Then you repeat, again and again and again. For most people, this wouldn’t be the ideal way of spending their lives. But Maddy doesn't have much of a choice. Maddy has been in the same sterile, boring house ever since she was two years old. She can only come in contact with her nurse, Clara, and her mother. The reason her life is so restricted is because Maddy has SCID, or severe combined immunodeficiency disease. It means she’s missing the necessary cells to fight off infections, so she can get sick very easily. She’s had this condition since she was two years old, or at least that’s what she thought. Throughout the novel “Everything, Everything” by Nicola Yoon, you experience life the way Maddy does. You see how drastically it …show more content…

The results came back as negative. Maddy could no longer live with the person who ruined her life. She couldn’t even bare to talk to her mother. She moved in with Clara and tried reaching out to Olly again. However, it wasn’t that easy. He had moved back to New York sometime after they had stopped talking. She texted him an address for an old book store in New York. Maddy went and waited for him to show up. And then he did. It was like they were never apart. They talked like nothing had ever changed. At that moment, Maddy had everything she could ever wish for, and nothing

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