The book “Everything I’ve Never Told You”, has many mechanisms. Mechanisms are groups of things that work together to allow the whole object to move. In my mind, systems and mechanism are very similar in the aspect they they work together to show other things.

The book itself is written about a system or a mechanism, or at least so far it is in my opinion. Lydia was killed, and that person that killed her is still somewhere to be found. There are a bunch of suspects and are all linked to Lydia and other suspects in their own ways. That is an example of a mechanism, people that connect with other people to figure out the main goal.

Also,  another part of the book that is actually more of a mechanism I think than a system is when the police and the family are trying to work together to figure out what has happened to Lydia. But……, Marilyn, Lydia’s mother gets very upset when the police mention suicide. She says, “ Read the paper, There are psychos everywhere these days, kidnapping people, shooting them. Raping them. What does it take for the police to start tracking them down?”

She was being the broken piece of the mechanism at this point and nothing was going to work unless all of the pieces worked together in unison. James, Lydia’s father told her to calm down and let the police do their work.