THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END by Adam Silvera

I loved the world-building in this story. I know that people can argue for days about HOW the Death-Cast actually works and how it affects the way you live the day and how it, in turn, would CHANGE the day instead of predict, but.... I love the way Silvera came up with lots of ways that this change would cause ripples into other facets of life. So when I looked back at the sentences I marked, I found that most of them were world-building in some way. Perhaps you can find some sort of application for this in your classroom. I'm planning to use if for world-building for my Creative Writing class.

World development

I’m trying to stay shut ‘cause I don’t wanna take my problems out on some guy doing his job, even though I have no idea why the hell anyone applies for this position in 
the first place. P 17 They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

“Maybe you’ll live to see another day with some Vitamin Me in your system” p 36 They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

What if it’s Dad, who didn’t tell me he woke up so that he could surprise me-- the sort of End Day miracle they make Lifetime movies about? P 89 They Both Die at 
the End by Adam Silvera

“Two Deckers riding an elevator on their End Day is either a death wish or the start to a bad joke.” p 91 They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

I scoop the soil over the bird, smoothing it flat before standing. “I hope someone is this kind to us when it’s over.” p 98 They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

I watched a thirty-minute documentary on Netflix a couple years ago about how much hospitals have changed since Death-Cast came into the picture. Doctors work 
closely with Death-Cast, obviously, receiving instant updates about their terminal patients who’ve signed off on this agreement. When the alerts come in, nurses dial 
back on life support for their patients, prepping them for a “comfortable death” instead with last meals, phone calls to families, funeral arrangements, getting wills in 
order, priests for prayers and confessions, and whatever else they can reasonably supply. P 112-3 They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

My teacher, Mr. Poland, would tell us “how good we got it” for having Death-Cast’s services. He’d assign us reports where we’ve reimagined periods of significant 
deaths-- the plague, the world wars, 9/11, et cetera-- and how people would've behaved had Death-Cast been around to deliver the warning. The assignments, 
quite honestly, made me feel guilty for growing up in a time with a life-changing advancement, sort of like how we have medicine to cure common diseases that 
killed others in the past. P172 They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

I also had a few other quotes I saved. Sometimes I'm not sure what to file them under, but I try to give them some sort of label. Maybe they'll come in handy later, maybe I just get a second chance to appreciate them while I type them.

Attitude in life

He’s right. I am doing this to myself. I’m holding myself back. I’ve spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that’s gotten me. I’m at the finish line, 
but I never ran the race. P 136 They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Love

“That love is a superpower we all have, but it’s not always a superpower I’d be able to control.” p 239 They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

“You were hiding from me, Mateo. I always wanted to stumble into someone like you and it sucks that I had to find you through a stupid app.” p 340 They Both Die 
at the End by Adam Silvera

**Any mistakes you find are my own.** Feel free to let me know about them so that I can fix them.