Everything I Never Told You Lesson Plan

What did Nath’s acceptance to Harvard mean for Lydia?

Nath was the only person who was on Lydia’s side, who understood the pressure she was under. He was her only friend, the person she ate lunch with and sat with on the bus. Every night she would come to him for comfort and understanding regarding the awful weight of her parents’ expectations. But as he checked the mail for his acceptance letter, he was already focused on his own future, failing for the first time to notice her unspoken misery. Nath’s bond with Lydia had started to bother him, and he longed to be free of it, though she knew she’d be alone and lost without him. Lydia’s theft of his spotlight when Nath...