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11. Survival; Life is Short
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
Two nights later, Maddy is feeling better as she reaches the end of Lord of the Flies. She ignores the first ping at her window, but gets up when she hears more objects hit it. Olly’s window is open, the lights are off, and the Bundt sits on his windowsill wearing googly eyes. The cake trembles and falls to the ground. Maddy gasps at the suicidal cake and a spotlight illuminates it on the ground, miraculously still intact. Maddy catches sight of Olly’s gloved hand, but he doesn’t show himself.
The following drama with the Bundt cake functions to pique Maddy’s interest in Olly and in the outside world. In doing so, it begins to plant the seed that Maddy is actually missing out on fun, meaningful, and entertaining things by remaining in her house all the time.
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