Abstract :
Madeline Whittier in Everything, Everything novel is a girl who fight
against bubble baby disease or SCID. Bubble baby disease or SCID is a disease
that attacks a person's immunity so that the person is allergic to the outside world.
In this study, the purpose of this research is to find out Madeline Whittier's
motivation to fight bubble baby disease or SCID. This research is a qualitative
research. With data sources in the form of the novel Everything,Everything by
Nicola Yoon, and several related journals. The process of collecting and
processing data in this study from sentences, conversations, and paragraphs in the
novel which are then analyzed in several steps. After the data is collected, it is
analyzed using several appropriate concepts, approaches, and theoretical views
from experts who have been quoted, reviewed, detailed, and compared after which
the researcher can evaluate the data and compiled the conclusions. The results of
this study show that Madeline's motivation to fight bubble baby disease is first
because Madeline is in love with Olly, and second because of her high curiosity
about the outside world. Which makes Madeline dare to take great risks in
fighting her illness.