John Green Research Paper

John Green is a 39 year old author, vlogger, producer, editor and actor. He is also a father of two children, Henry and Alice, and a husband to Sarah Urist Green. Before John became famous he was just a normal person who was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on August 24, 1977. Green went to high school at Indian Springs School, after high school, he continued on to college where he received two degrees in English and Religious studies. “His experience of school was similar to other social outcasts who get bullied by arrogant people. He earned double graduation degrees in English and Religious Studies from Kenyon College. He worked as a student chaplain after graduation in a children’s hospital. His initial aim was to become an Episcopal priest.”

He didn’t always know he wanted to be a writer. John went to college at first to study religion and English. Green was a chaplain at a children’s hospital for a while and that experience changed his mind about continuing his religious studies. “Before Fame he earned a degree in English and religious studies from Kenyon College in Ohio. He then set out to become an Episcopal priest; however, his time spent as a chaplain in a Chicago children's hospital discouraged him from entering divinity school, and he instead decided to pursue writing.” ("Interview with John Green" 2012). Although John was bullied, he had friends, he was a normal kid. He would laugh and talk with them and he learned how to grow up in the process of having fun. ''But the biggest thing that I did at Indian Springs, and that most of my classmates did, was just a lot of hanging out and talking. I got to spend time with my peers in a relatively safe environment 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and that allowed me to have really intense, deep friendships. But it also allowed me to sort of grow into adulthood.” (Carlton

There were a couple hundred people in a forum who were trying to figure out what was happening, both in terms of the plot of the story and whether it was a fictional production. As things got more and more Aleister Crowley–ish, it became obvious that this wasn't about a real person — but we still wanted to understand what it was and where it was going. I was an incredible disservice to everyone involved, because every idea I had was wrong and every lead I forced people to follow would take them in the wrong direction. But a lot of the people who were in that community became the earliest fans of the video blog I made with my brother. Many of them are still very important in shaping the direction of our work together.” ("John Green on Lonelygirl15, Rushmore, and 10 Other Things That Influenced His Work"