“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?” said by Colin Singleton, the main character of An Abundance of Katherines. The thing with Colin Singleton is he wants to do something with his life. He wants to matter and mean something to someone, whether that be by the nineteen girls he dated named Katherine, or by creating a theorem on the predictability of relationships. In An Abundance of Katherines, a book written by John Green, Colin Singleton is a seventeen-year-old, “child prodigy” who knows everything, yet cannot understand why he is always the one being dumped in a relationship. So, after his nineteenth breakup, his friend, Hassan, sparks up the idea to go on a road trip, so Colin can get his mind off the breakup and enjoy life. Collin hesitantly agrees to go, and he ends up making many realizations during his trip. John Green, the author, does an exceedingly well job at using the plot, characters, and setting to create the theme, which is finding the purpose of your life. To start off, the plot is used efficiently to construct the story’s main theme of finding the purpose of your life. First of all, the main plot of the story is that Colin wants to matter. He is a child-prodigy who is constantly searching someone who he can matter to. Someone who will remember him and his intelligence. So, when he goes through a serious breakup, things start going downhill for Colin, “The problem …show more content…
The main goal for Colin in the story was to matter to someone and have a breakthrough, but Colin never completes his goal. Instead, he learns to accept himself the way he is and know that he at least tried to do something worth remembering, because, “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something