The Sky Is Everywhere Analysis

F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “That is part of the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” I strongly believe that this quote could not be more accurate when it comes to losing someone you love. Unfortunately, losing someone you love is unavoidable in life, whether that be the breakdown of a friendship or the loss of life. These changes in your life are always hard to deal with, and literature is a great way to escape these emotions or find comfort in the ways characters deal with them. ‘The Sky is Everywhere’ authored by Jandy Nelson and ‘We Were Liars’ written by E. Lockhart are two novels that I believe illustrate death and how to deal with it quite well and have definitely helped me cope with the recent loss of my Uncle John and the loss of my close friend Sebastien in 2012.

‘The Sky is Everywhere’ by Jandy Nelson is about an average teenage girl named Lennie, who recently lost her talented, beautiful and older sister, Bailey, to a heart arrhythmia. The novel then goes on to show how Lennie deals with this loss, and how she learns that she can be happy and love without feeling guilty that Bailey can no longer do these things. The novel

How could they abandon me? Everybody thinks this way when they lose someone they care about, and they feel a great deal of anger and guilt. I was angry that they left me, and I felt guilty that it was them and not me, despite my absence when both deaths occurred. Reading this text by Lockhart has aided me in dealing with my losses because it helped me realise that it is okay to be angry that they’re gone. My eyes have also been opened to the fact that even though they’re gone, they are still with me in my thoughts, much like the liars were with Cady while she was discovering what happened to her and