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.
Ive been waiting to see this movie, so I don’t mind the spoilers at all. Great read! I can see your point of where she is feeling the Displacement throughout the book. Knowing the ending, it was injustice that her mother hid her from the world for her own personal reasons. I can see as a mother she would want nothing bad happening to her, but she did it in the wrong way of lying the entire time. 18 years of Madeline’s life were wasted away; I’m glad the truth finally came out. Now Madeline could slowly adjust to the real world and get to do the things she’s always wanted. I’ll definitely be watching the movie & possibly interested in the book as well since both tends to follow different plots somewhere.
I haven’t read the book but it sounds interesting that her mother actually made up that she has SCDI when she didn’t have it. In a way I can understand that she did it for a reason of not losing her and to protect her from the outside world. However, because of that Madeline never get to know about the world outside and never experience life outside her home.
I was considering about watching this movie and now I am convinced. I enjoy movies that have good plot twists in it. I know the mother had good intentions since all she wanted to do was to protect her daughter. Although, she has harming her own daughter without meaning to. For 18 years, Madeline thought she was sick and different from everyone else causing her to distance herself from others. She was unable to enjoy the outside world or even have friends.
I also read this book and I saw the movie that went along with it. It was very interesting to me when she went out in the real world. She seemed to have figured things out fairly quickly. In my opinion this could be because she read so many books which helped her to learn more about the outside world through her 18 years of only living in her home.
WOW! This story seems is very intriguing. I now want to go watch it in theaters. Although, the mother has suffered greatly, I still don’t believe she had the right to keep in her house by the lie she created. At the end of the day, she did create a harm to her daughter because now her immune system is weak. Even if her daughter was ill, she could of shown her love by letting her daughter go outside and living her “short life” full of happiness.
It is interesting how factors such as being attracted to someone can lead individuals to step completely out of their comfort zone, like Madeline did. It is very unfair that her mother did that to her. Mother’s always seem to be right, but it seems like her mother went to an extreme. Thanks for sharing this story, I will be reading soon !