Everything Everything By Nicola Yoon: A Character Analysis

In book “Everything Everything” by Nicola Yoon, main character Maddie Whittier, has a mysterious condition called SCID (Severe Combined Immune Deficiency,), this disease leads to a huge conflict. After meeting new neighbor Ollie, she wants to venture out of her house. But the conflict is she cannot go outside, because of her conditions, which stops her from seeing the world ,and meeting her love interest Ollie face to face. Maddie just wants to go outside, and explore but that cannot happen. “Really there’s only one thing I wish for a magical cure that will allow me to run free outside like a wild animal. But I could never make that wish, it’s impossible.” (11 Yoon). In this quote, Maddie explains her feelings and her problem that revolves
around her during the whole book, about how she cannot travel outside of her house. This example, explains her conflict and that she can’t go outside but wishes to do so, if that were her one wish, but since it’s impossible, it’s a problem that she and other characters struggle with. Overall, In Nicola Yoon’s book” Everything Everything”, Maddie and several other main characters, struggle with a conflict, because Maddie’s SCID,does not let her enjoy the world outside of her house.