Every Day David Levithan Analysis

Everybody changes throughout their lives to shape who they are. Every Day, a romance novel by David Levithan, shows just that. Levithan shows A, the protagonist of the novel, changing throughout the book by A’s recklessness with the people’s lives he controls as he tries to figure out who he is supposed to be. At the beginning of the novel, the entity A that is possessing people’s lives admits that he respects the lives he is in control over for the day. A states, “It’s hard being in the body of someone you don’t like, because you still have to respect it. I’ve harmed people’s lives in the past, and I’ve found that every time I slip up, it haunts me” (Levithan 2.) This shows that he is cautious with the lives he possesses because he does not want to remember what was his fault. He does not want to get close to humans. He knows that he cannot stay in one body. He cannot make friends because he’ll probably never see them again in the same body. This is part of A’s everyday life.

He falls in love with the girl and does anything to see her. He does not care about the lives anymore. A goes from simply ignoring plans to lying, breaking rules, and leaving a boy on the side of the street. A admits to this horrendous act by saying, “I am a monster for doing this to him. But I have my reason” (Levithan 75.) He leaves the sixteen year old alone on the side of the street, but then justifies it for Rhiannon. He’s a monster for leaving him alone, but it was all for Rhiannon. He does not care for the lives as much as he used to care. He still cares when he’s around the person’s friends, but to him, Rhiannon always comes