I recently finished a book called Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon. This book is basically about a young girl, Madeline,  who has been completely separated from the world due to a sickness called SCDI. This enables her from stepping out of her home, because she is in other terms allergic to everything. Inside her house, her room walls are painted white to avoid any sort of trigger, and her house has a decontamination device that keeps the air clean. Her mother is her personal doctor, even though she also works in the hospital. Throughout the book we see her normal life, which included lots of time with her mom, and a lot of reading. However, a new neighbor moves and she falls in love with him. She is then open to the curiosity of wanting to explore the world. From then on, she breaks her mom’s rule of leaving her house for her own safety and takes a voyage to Hawaii. She was amazed by how the world appeared. Because she has never been out of her household, she did not have an idea of how people were, or how certain foods taste like. She is abruptly encountered by the world, and she somewhat tries to assimilate. Maddy now starts to buy her own clothing in real stores, and she is open to tasting foods she never had before. However she struggles looking for the best best, in terms of clothes and purchases a small bathing suit.

Throughout her journey, she gets sick and is hospitalized. There she finds that in fact she was not sick with SCDI, and that her mother made it up to keep her inside of her house and away from the world. Even though it seemed right to her mom after her son and her husband died, Madeline was completely wrecked by that. After assimilating to not being outside, she had discovered that in fact she was isolated by force and had to now assimilate to a world she could’ve been part of. Not only that, but because she had 18 years of her life away from any sort of bacteria, her immune system was weak and very much like an infant’s. Therefore, she again had to decrease her frequent visits outside. In other terms, she was displaced many different times for various different reasons.

In my early childhood, when I was around 6, I experienced an event that can be considered a displacement. Growing up, most of my mom’s side of the family lived around our neighborhood. Therefore, we spent most of our time together. In addition, my mom side of the family is very light in skin color and they inherited dirty blonde hair. Because i was the only one form that side of the family to have darker skin complexion, I was often bullied and placed aside. They often mimic the way I would talk, because I became very shy. This essentially  triggered me to act a certain way in order to get their attention. For example, I started to dress very formal and preppy all the time, because thats the way I saw their lighter complexion friends dressed. I adopted their mannerisms, for example being completely self cautious about everything I did.

In other words I wanted their approval. I had to assimilate to them. However, I still stood out because of my appearance. After a while, as we grew older my cousins began to see that I had the talent of singing. That helped me tremendously because for once they started to see that being different was alright after all. They began to want to hear me sing, and they didn’t push me aside anymore because I looked different.

This is a displacement of appearance. Because I looked different I stood out. People noticed and some would judge because of it. However, my talent is what essentially gave a good impact towards our relationship, and it triggered us to become closer.

My topics are :

Amish Culture:

How is Amish culture affecting the people around them, and how is it affecting them?

Orphanage:

What is the role of orphanages in poor countries, and how are they aiding the child’s development?

Adoption:

To what extent are adopted children expose to their real biological ties?

This is one the scenes from the Series “Switched at Birth”. In this scene Daphne is a deaf character, which is what sets her apart from her family, and essentially her school community. She had chosen to be in a regular school because she wanted to adapt to her surroundings. However, in this scene we see that even though she tries to fit in, her incapacity of hearing enables people to take advantage of her. She has her deaf friend help her out in selling tacos for money. Even though she can hear a little, her friend cannot. Therefore, when she was robbed her friend wasn’t able to help her. In this case, both of them are displaced because their hearing provokes others from viewing them as weak. Its very similar to Prince of Belair, because even though he tries to fit in, he still remains an outcast.