Tone & Diction

Levithan’s tone throughout this novel is moderately conservative, just like his choice of diction. “A” wakes up in a new body every day and his objective is keep the life of the persons body that he’s in as normal as possible, or, try not to influence their life from the course its already following. In order to do this, Levithan had to restrain from outgoing or aggressive diction, using more passive words that wont get the body he’s in in any trouble the next day, but at the same time, fills the novel with many descriptions of what its like to be in all different sorts of bodies. “A” is a 16 year old, ad remains that way until he is in the body of someone who turns 17, so for the most part, the diction is fairly basic.