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
Maddy shares her discharge form with the reader. Her doctor is Dr. Melissa Francis, and she was unable to diagnose what was wrong with Maddy’s heart. She performed an echocardiogram. The form reads that Dr. Francis discharged Maddy, though she didn’t want to. Maddy doesn’t remember much, but recalls being in the ambulance, receiving adrenaline shots, and the hospital. She remembers the smell of the airport, Mom crying, and Olly’s look of sadness, relief, and love. Maddy knows she’s going home and will be trapped there forever. She’s alive, but she doesn’t want to be.
When Maddy insists that she doesn’t want to be alive, it indicates that her experiences in the real world, though dangerous, have showed her that her life in Mom’s house isn’t as meaningful or positive as she had previously trained herself to believe. Rather, staying there means that she might not get to see Olly again, and it definitely means that she’s never going to be able to see the world again. It will, in short, return her to a dependent state.
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