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Opinions 'Everything, Everything'

Chapter summary

•  “My White Balloon” is a description of a dream of Madeline’s in which her house breathes along with her.
  
• “Neighborhood Watch” is written in list form, detailing the daily activities of the family next door and reveals that the teenage son is named Olly and his sister is named Kara.
  
• In “I Spy,” Madeline describes Olly’s bedroom, which is directly across from hers on the second floor of his home and notices a poster from the movie Jump London.
  
• “Menteuse” describes Friday nights at Madeline’s home when Carla stays for dinner and her mother serves all French foods.
  

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• Madeline’s mother points out that her tutor, Mr. Waterman, has indicated Madeline is late in turning in an architecture assignment and asks if everything is okay with Madeline.
  

• Madeline responds that she is fine and when her mother asks if it is the new neighbors that are distracting Madeline, she tells her the first lie of her life and says that she is engulfed in a new novel.
  

• Suddenly during dinner the doorbell rings and everyone is shocked; Madeline’s mom insists they stay at the table while she goes through the airlock to the front door.
  

•  Madeline, plagued by curiosity, follows and overhears the teenage neighbors 
  

offering their mother a Bundt cake, which she turns down.

• Olly asks if her daughter is available to show him and his sister around, 
  

but Madeline’s mother just says she cannot see them and shuts the door.

• In “Piece De Rejection,” Madeline observes a violent scene at the home next door wherein the drunken and abusive father hurls the cake at Olly, who ducks.
  

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• In “Survival,” Madeline feels rejection because Olly closed his blinds to her the night before.
  

• “First Contact” opens with Madeline hearing tapping at her window and looking outside to see Olly across from her with the still-intact Bundt cake on the window sill with eyes pasted onto it. As the cake hurls from the windowsill, Madeline can see it is still intact.
  

                                                                      

• “Night Two” describes another night where Madeline ignores the pinging at her window. 
  
• “Night Four” begins with the pinging again and Madeline looks out to see Olly with the Bundt cake wrapped in bandages.
  

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• “Night Five” describes Olly’s setup with the Bundt cake with a martini glass, cigarettes, and a bottle of pills.
  
• In “Night Six,” Olly has rigged an IV line to the Bundt cake, takes a stethoscope to it, and shakes his head, indicating the cake will not survive.
  
• “Night Seven” describes Olly in the window performing last rites on the Bundt cake.
  
• Olly writes an email address in black marker to show to Madeline.
  
• In “First Contact, Part Two” Madeline begins a message to [e-mail].
  
• In her email, Madeline introduces herself and asks what Olly’s name is (although she already knows it from watching the family next door).
  
• In the ensuing emails between Madeline and Olly, they joke about the ingredients of the indestructible Bundt cake made by Olly’s mother.
  

Characters

Madeline “Maddy” Whittier

This character is the protagonist and narrator of Everything, Everything. She is an 18-year-old young woman who is believed to be inflicted with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disorder (SCID), which is also known as the bubble baby disease. She has lived her entire life in a completely sterile environment with her only human communication between her mother and her full-time nurse.

Dr. Pauline Whittier

This character is the protagonist's mother and she serves as her primary medical caretaker. She lost her husband and son in a car accident not long after her daughter was born.

Carla Flores 

This character is the full-time nurse who attends to the protagonist while her mother is away at work. She has formed a close bond and friendship with the protagonist and urges her to take risks and later, to discover the truth about her condition.

Oliver “Olly” Bright

This character is the teenage boy who moves in next door to the protagonist. She forms a relationship with him that ultimately leads to her character's journey.

• Olly’s Dad 
  

This character is portrayed as a violent, abusive alcoholic who perpetually terrifies his family and abuses his wife.

• Olly’s Mom 
  

This character is portrayed as someone unwilling to change her circumstances, even though she faces the abuse of her husband and the endangerment of her children by staying with him.

• Kara Bright 
  

This character is the teenage daughter who moves next door to the protagonist. She is frequently seen smoking cigarettes and has black fingernails.

• Rosa Flores 
  

This character is the 17-year-old daughter of the protagonist's full-time nurse.

• Mr. Waterman 
  

This character is the archeology tutor to the protagonist

Discussion topic

Make groups of four and discuss these questions.

Afterwards you'll be asked to about what you discussed.

Describe and discuss Dr. Paula Whittier in Everything, Everything. How would you describe Dr. Whittier's relationship with her daughter? What is revealed about Dr. Whittier's character as the story progresses? Would you consider Dr. Whittier to be a protagonist or antagonist in the story? Why?

Vocabulary

Go to Leertaak 1 in Teams and make assignment 1 & 2

Answers

Answers

Comprehension questions

1. How is “Neighborhood Watch” structured? What is revealed in this chapter?

2. How does Madeline describe Olly's room in "I Spy"?

3. What happens when the visitors arrive in “Menteuse”?

4. What does Olly do with the Bundt cake in “First Contact”?

5. What does the Bundt cake represent symbolically in the novel?

You are going to do research on the SCID disease. Try to answer the following questions with the use of the Internet and the information you gained from Madeline in Everything, Everything.

Research

Research

1. What is Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease?

2. What are the symptoms of SCID?

3. Are there treatment possibilities for SCID? If so, what?

4. What are the living conditions like for people who are diagnosed with SCID?

5. David Vetter was a kid famous because of his diagnosis with SCID. Take some time to read about David Vetter’s life. 
 

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Homework

Read chapters 'First Contact, Part Three' through 'Makes You Stronger'

After reading answer MC questions through MS Forms. 

Link to Forms in e-mail