Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Everything, Everything, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Coming of Age
Trust and Lies
Family, Abuse, and Bravery
The Value of Experience
Summary
Analysis
Five weeks after discovering she’s not sick, Maddy orders real plants for the sunroom, opens the doors and turns off the air filter, and buys goldfish. She names them all Olly. Six weeks after, Dr. Chase tells Maddy it’s too soon to enroll in high school, but Maddy and Carla persuade him to let some of Maddy’s tutors visit in person.
Maddy’s continued efforts to personalize her home and introduce new elements into it reflect her burgeoning individuality and her desire to be a part of the outside world, even if it’s still somewhat unsafe for her to experience it as fully as she’d like to.
Themes
