I found this oddly interesting...

[((Savanha))]

I found it interesting that the majority of the bodies A inhabited was homosexual or had a homosexual friend. Was Levithan trying to show that most young people are gay or lesbian or did he just do it because he could? Did anyone else realize this pattern?

[KC]

I think the message of the book ran much deeper, and writing so freely about those relationships was proving the point that such simple things shouldn't be a problem to the world.

[((Savanha))]

Kc wrote: "I think the message of the book ran much deeper, and writing so freely about those relationships was proving the point that such simple things shouldn't be a problem to the world."

That makes sense because A never cared whose body he was in and said he doesn't have a perference of who he is or who he likes.

[KC]

((Savanha)) wrote: "Kc wrote: "I think the message of the book ran much deeper, and writing so freely about those relationships was proving the point that such simple things shouldn't be a problem to the world."

That..."

That's what I got from it. I thought that A was showing the reader that people are people, whatever gender, size, or color, everyone has a soul and the body is just a shell.

[Massimo]

Yeah! The message of the book was also love anyone you want. Love is love and even if girl likes girl or boy likes boy it's still love. But I think he was also writing freely to also show his belief in being gay because he is gay.

[Juzella]

i think Levithan wrote this book very wisely... not to judge or to say anything bad about the homosexuals, but i think to be fair. to me, some people say that being homosexual is kinda like a bad thing, but Levithan's message is, even though you are like that, you are still human, and you are capable of love and be loved.

im not really good at explaining things...

[Jon]

I've heard it's because he wants people to know that gay people/characters can still be good and normal people. I was fine with having a few gay characters in D&LBoD, but in Everyday, I felt like 20-33% of the characters were gay. I actually got a little annoyed by that because, unless it was a convenient coincidence, that's way over-estimating the gay population.

[Jennifer]

Jon wrote: "I've heard it's because he wants people to know that gay people/characters can still be good and normal people. I was fine with having a few gay characters in D&LBoD, but in Everyday, I felt l..."

But since the main character is a genderless being, categories of gay or lesbian or trans are broken down. We don't know as much about the sexual identity of the bodies inhabited.

I think the point is more that the desire between these souls to be together is the true nature of love, the bits in our bodies that mark us female/male are less important.

[Michael]

Ultimately I think the message of this book was love. Whether A was inside a boy body or a girl.