Phoebe Donovan                                                                                                         ELA Blog Post #1
September 17,2014                                                                                              RR (summer reading)

                                                                     Everyday

        Everyday by David Leviathan is a fascinating and heartwarming fictional story reflecting on the life of "A", a boy who wakes up in a different body every morning. With whatever risks he takes, he must keep the lives of those he spends one day as, normal. This is because balance of time and space reflects on how he acts each day. Most days are easy, and as a teenager, A has learned his limits on each life, as has learned to sink in with each life. He then learns more about himself inside everyday, even though he doesn't have a set "outside." Although this story is fictional, the author is able to hook the reader in with young adult troubles and difficulties he faces. Throughout the book, A faces realizations and dilemmas related to love, family, and realizing who his inner self really is.

        From start to finish, A faces troubles regarding love, and to that extent, he could practically travel the world for them. In the beginning of the book, A encounters a life where he meets a girl named Rihannon and immediately falls in love. In Chapter 20, A says, “I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own. It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.” This is an incredible saying because it shows his troubles within a few sentences. This shows that A is struggling to get over the fence of love. He feels that it can't accept him, if he doesn't let it in first. The term conquer refers to the power of the emotion. As explained, love has a very large effect on everyone who, "falls into its trap" as the book goes on, A has more desire to see Rihannon because the pull between his feelings and the natural logic fighting him back, gets weaker. This causes A to go out of boundaries to explain and pursue his love. Additionally, through time, he begins to connect the pull of love to the difference and importance of his families, even though they only last a day. Within every chapter, A describes how the #1 way that he can estimate the persons life style, is the way they treat their family. This shows how he is realizing its importance. As a minor, A and every other, is majorly effected by his parents and the people who surround him. For example, kids who are abused, tend to stay and live within  a shell of fear, and feel the need to not push to be an outgoing or unique person. This is because their parents make them feel small, and as the elders who brought you life, one may believe something their parent discusses to them more than a friend, or most likely a stranger, even an adult. Lastly A struggles to find his real inner self. as the book progresses, he starts to believe and convince himself more and more that although he wakes up in a different body every morning, he still has a real soul and personality individually. As he begins to find more urges in troubles with love, he starts to realize that no matter how many bodies he travels to, he will still be in love with the same girl.  This shows that he is a very devoted person. He is complicating strangers lives every day just to see her, which shows the strength and belief he has in love, in her, and in himself.

        In conclusion, although we may not wake up in a different body every morning, we can understand his desires and pains in a way where his body swaps may represent events in our lives. Certain things in our daily lives may act as a cinder block, a hurricane, or a blizzard. But over all, the things we hold onto through those thick walls of difficulty, are the things that make us up as people, and the things that are truly important to self completion. Our daily discoveries include obstacles with love, and the everyday drag of strength that it takes to wake up, and to be happy.