Narrative Structure/Arc
The dramatic event that serves as the climax of the novel (or perhaps a false climax).
What is Maddy dies in Hawaii and has to have her heart restarted?
Maddy and Olly go to this place, in this location, before they travel to Hawaii.
What is Carla's home in Koreatown?
This character is Maddy's closest friend, confidante, and the one who encourgaes Maddy to live, even at their own expense.
Who is Carla?
Maddy loses her father and brother due to this event.
What is a car crash?
“You’re not living if you’re not regretting.”
Who is Carla?
Maddy and Olly communicating through IM, meeting in secret with Carla's assistance, growing closer, having their first kiss together, and eventually running away to Hawaii are all events that fall under this section of the narrative structure.
What is rising action?
Witnessing this event causes Maddy to leave her house for the first time.
What is Olly being physically abused by his father?
Who is Zachariah?
The book Maddy brings to Hawaii alongside the Lonely Earth Maui guidebook.
What is The Little Prince?
"In the beginning there was nothing. And then there was everything."
Who is Maddy?
The introduction of Olly causes the sudden disruption/change of Maddy's previously stable and consistent routine.
What is the inciting event/inciting incident?
The name that Maddy gives her new nurse and the reason she does so.
What is Nurse Evil and because she puts sticky notes everywhere.
In Olly's metaphor for life, this is the carousel.
Who is Olly's father?
This item is used to represent Maddy and the fact that she cannot experience life freely without protection, the idea of hidden information, and that the world is bigger than her bedroom.
What is an astronaut figure?
"Sometimes I wish I could just disappear and leave them."
Who is Olly?
It is at this point of the narrative arc that we are introduced to Maddy, her mother (Dr. Pauline), and her nurse (Carla). We are told that she has SCID, and shown what her life has been like for as long as she can remember.
What is exposition?
Olly built this item and keeps it on his roof as a means of "escaping"
What is the Orrery?
This character treated Maddy when she was rushed to Maui Memorial.
Who is Melissa Francis?
This was Maddy's discharge status after she was resuscitated/her heart was restarted.
What is Left Against Advice?
“Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.”
Who is Zachariah?
It is at this point in the narrative structure that Maddy is gifted the photograph of herself and her family in Hawaii, which fuels her decision to leave home.
What is rising action?
Maddy experiences this before she wakes up and discovers that she has become dangerously ill.
What is a fever dream/downward spiral?
These two characters believe that love makes people crazy as they both do something they claim they would have never done if it was not for the other person.
Who are Maddy and Olly?
Maddy's past medical history includes this, according to her Maui Memorial Discharge Form.
What is unknown?
"Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse."
Who is Maddy?