Jessi OConnell

English 114B
Professor J. Rodrick
10 April 2016
Summarizing a Scene
In the book Every Day by David Levithan, it talks about the main character, A, which is
an unknown being in the world who takes the form of every human being within approximately a
four hour range, and roughly the age of itself (junior status in high school), for only one single
day; with no repeats.
A eventually falls in love with this girl one day and it gets stuck that A wants to
constantly be around her because it believes that it is in love with her. A one night took the form
of a boy named Nathan Daldry, who was a goody-two-shoes and never disobeyed any rule, he
mainly made the rules himself it seemed like. A took over Nathans body and drove to a party
where the girl A fell in love with, Rhiannon, would be. Unfortunately, A did not make it back to
Nathans house in time and A had to pull over on the side of the road and leave the body there
inside the car. After that, Nathan was insistent on believing that he was possessed and that it was
the devil himself.
Now that the background information has been laid out, the scene that is going to be
splayed out before you is the one on the day of As 6,008 day on Earth being who it is. A is
inhabiting AJ, an old acquaintance of Nathan who was in with the gang before he decided
claiming that he was possessed by the devil.
A, who is behind the scenes of the actual person AJ, walks up to Nathan and tries to get
his side of the story from that night. Nathan tells, who he thinks is AJ but really is the person
who possessed him for a day, that even the Reverend with whom he talks to says that demon
possession is quite common, but that is just from a religious stand point.

I chose this scene because I find it ironic. Nathan, the boy who claimed he would get
revenge on A, is talking to whom he thinks is his old pal AJ, when in reality he is actually talking
to the thing that nobody can seem to find any reasonable explanation for. Nathan is openly
talking to A and he did not even know that behind that body was a, perhaps, soul that belonged to
no physical being on earth.
A is, however (and in a sense), still a teenager, and most teenagers are always driven wild
by curiosity. Naturally, going up to Nathan and testing to see if he would recognize A helped ease
his fears. Nathan could not detect if A was inside AJ or not. Nathan merely saw AJ as AJ, but he
really wasnt.
This, to me, helps give the illusion that people see what they want to see. Even if
sometimes things are staring at us right in the face, it is sometimes difficult to realize that it is
actually there. Sometimes it feels as if there is an invisibility cloak surrounding it, or maybe it
magically moved to a different area if it was an inanimate object. Yet, we really have to look, and
want to look, in order to find what we are looking for.
Nathan truly did not want to find what he was looking for, so he never saw what was
right in front of him.