Looking For Katherines, Paper Towns, And The Fault In Our Stars

John Green’s Romanticism Literature has become increasingly popular among young adults as authors are able to capture and address the common and painful rituals of young adulthood. John Green, a modern day romantic writer as been at the forefront of this increasingly popular genre. His impeccable ability to tell stories of love, friendship, mortality, and the meaning of life has captured the attention of millions of readers. His idea of romanticism consists of characters that are flawed, but ordinary who are touched by, and vulnerable to the social pressures, sexual anxieties, and painful scenarios of life. His recent books include Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and The Fault in our Stars. John Green

It is entitled, An Abundance of Katherines. It is a novel based on the struggles of Colin Singleton, a seventeen-year-old prodigy who has only dated girls named Katherine. When it comes to girls names Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. In fact, Colin was dumped 19 times by girls named Katherine. Mired in rejection and frustration, Colin sets off on a mission with his best friend, Hassan, with the idea of proving a mathematical formula that can predict the future of any relationship and conceivably win the girl. The two embark on a road trip to Gutshot, Tennessee. This road trip changed Colin’s whole outlook on love, relations, and life. They end up staying and working for a rich woman named Hollis who produces tampon strings and end up befriending a girl Lindsey Lee Well and her group of friends. This book is intercalated with very short flashbacks to former Katherines and permeated with funny footnotes. Colin is actually a very unlikeable character that becomes likable. He is self-centered, egotistical and weird. The book is simple and quirky. The writing and the characters are original and Colin is searching for the meaning to his life and of an Eureka moment. “it always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satan’s Hearse and then finally he’d just give up and say, “Fine. I’ll take the fugging bus, “ and on his way out the door, he’d see the keys. Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus; Katherines appear when you start to disbelieve the world contains another Katherine; and, sure enough, the Eureka moment arrived just as he began to accept it would never come.” This book is full of remarkable quotes that demonstrate how a child once being young, self absorbed, and immature develops from life experiences and discovers those “Eureka Moments” . An Abundance of Katherines is about heartbreak, friends, family, math, and a young man stuck between a boy and a