Ana Lalic                                                                                                                        July/21/2015

Every You Every Me Essay

I’m writing about the book “Every You Every Me,” a fictional novel by John Levithan. Every You Every Me is about a boy named Evan. One day, when Evan is walking home, he finds a photograph of the place he is standing in that was taken before he got there. The next day on the way to school he puts it back where he found it. While going back home, he sees that the photograph is gone, and a new one has been put up. When he looks at the new photo, he finds a picture of himself. Strange photos keep turning up all over the place, and Evan starts to see them as clues. He thinks they are somehow connected to his friend Ariel, who is gone. The book keeps from you what happened to her, and you have to figure it out yourself throughout the book, until it reveals what happened in the end.

This book connects to another book I’ve read before called Looking for Alaska, by John Green (David Levithan and John Green actually wrote a book together, called Will Grayson, Will Grayson.)They both have the same sort of mystery plot and suspense. It also reminds me of the book Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson. Actually, the two books have extremely different plots and characters, but one thing about both of them is very unique. They both have crossed out writing. So a sentence in the book will be halfway finished, but then the rest is crossed out, so that you can still read it, but know that that’s what the character is thinking, but choosing not to say out loud, or say to the reader. I thought that was very interesting, and made the book really fun to read. Both the writers used that form of writing to show things about the character's pasts, especially when the character wasn’t admitting the things that had happened to the reader or the other people in the book. I would recommend this book to someone who likes mystery books. The book has two mysteries inside it. The main character is trying to figure out who is leaving him these strange photographs, and the reader is trying to figure out what happened to his friend, Ariel.