Regret is something that all people will experience at some point in their life. In the words of Arthur Miller, “Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.” Basically, all that you can do in life is hope that you make the right decisions which leave you regretting the little things instead of the big ones. I personally agree with this statement, because living life to its fullest is about taking the right risks and making the decisions that may not pay off, but that you learn from in the long run. The authors of the realistic fiction book, “Everything, Everything” by Nicola Yoon and the sci-fi “Harrison Bergeron” by Vonnegut use literary devices to portray the overarching concept of regret throughout both pieces. Nicola Yoon uses setting to portray the regret that defines her main character, Madeline. Madeline, 18, lost her brother and her father in a car crash when she was very little, and has a rare disease called SCID that traps her in her house for all of her life….until the new neighbors move in. There's a boy …show more content…
Gutsy? Yes. Crazy? Yes. Life threatening? Absolutely. She runs out of her house and onto Olly’s yard with the plane tickets in her hand. One of Madeline’s wishes when she was a little kid was to go to Hawaii. Now that she has the love of her life, she takes a giant risk and buys plane tickets to the destination of her dreams. After spending one full day in paradise, disaster hits. Madeline is rushed to the hospital, where her heart stops. When she is brought back to life, she is abruptly taken home. After a couple of weeks recovering, Madeline discovers that the nurse that took care of her in Hawaii found no evidence of SCID in her system. Her mother, the woman who had taken care of her for her entire life, her mother had used a disease to keep Madeline close- trapped- in her house all her life. Furious, Madeline takes the biggest risk of her life and leaves her house to go live happily with Olly in New