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
In the mornings, Olly writes “good morning” on his window, waits for Kara to finish smoking, and leaves for school. He gets home in the afternoons, writes that he’s home, and at night, writes questions for Maddy. Maddy waits for Olly in the morning joyfully, but despairs once he goes to school. She ignores Nurse Janet and does schoolwork during the day, and then waits for Olly to get home. She hangs out with Mom in the evenings, mimes answers to Olly’s questions, and despairs once more after he goes to bed.
Especially after holding Olly’s hand and kissing him, this kind of a relationship certainly feels less fulfilling to Maddy. This, too, begins to show her that it’s impossible to go back to the way things were before Olly moved in, and that it’s also unfulfilling to conduct a relationship like this. Instead, she should turn her attention to figuring out a way to see Olly in person again.
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