Everything I Never Told You Chapter Summaries

Reading Response #7 Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng, is a story about Lydia, a young bi-racial girl that dies at the age of 16, by drowning in the lake. Although, I am still reading and discovering the whole story of her death. Through reading this novel I am discovering how members in Lydia’s family are and how her life outside of home was a secret from them. The plot of this novel is in the Northwest of America, Ohio in 1977. There is an undeniable significance to the author setting this novel in the 1977 in Ohio. This plot sets the novel to show a disconnect of races during that era of the United States. Within the first could chapter the author illustrates how the family, and Lydia have experience a type of discrimination. Which is accurate with the plot, the 1970’s in Ohio, especially in a predominately white suburb. I personally feel that is a great plot setting from the author because with the ominous third person somewhat guides the reader how to feel about the characters.
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However, she falls for James when he is a graduate professor at Harvard. Her dreams and goals a put on hold when she finds out that she is pregnant. Her and James get married and move to Ohio, where he accepts a job as a professor. Also, she loses contact with her mother because her mother was not accepting of their interracial marriage. The choice of the all knowing third person leads the reader to think that she gave up her life to have a family. Except in the 1960’s that was the norm to become a stay at home-wife, although Marilyn liked going against the norm. Another interesting part of the book is that is seems as though she is pushing her dreams of being a doctor and her oldest daughter, Lydia Also, the narrator leads me to think that she gave up a lot for her happiness and maybe that is why is left her husband, but I have not reached that point