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John Green’s, Turtles All the Way Down is a young adult novel that encapsulates the experience of a seventeen year old girl who struggles with severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The story begins by the main character, Aza, sitting at her luch table thinking about how she has no real control over her own life. The first episode which explores Aza’s OCD occurs when her best friend Daisy is talking to her at the luch table, but Aza can not hear a word Daisy is saying. Daisy is a loud and outspoken character whose main love in life is to write fictional stories about Star Wars characters. She has an ethusiaticfollowing and plenty of people read her stories online. Aza is so focused on a very rare disease called Clostridium Difficile (diff C) that she is …show more content…

One of the main symptoms of a person with OCD is that they have persistant idea, thoughts, impulses, or imagies that are experienced as intrusive and inappropriate. Aza has persistant intrusive thoughts that dictate the way she lives. This is seen throughout the book when Aza drinks sanitizer because her thoughts convince her that she has a very rare digestive disease. These thoughts have to be time consuming and take up at least one hour of her day. Aza’s experiences her intrusive thoughts multiple times throughout the whole day so I would say that they are time consuming. More evidence for Aza having OCD is that she replaces the baind-aid on her hand multiple times a day even if she knows she just changed it. IF she even thinks for a second about how old the band-aid is her intrusive thoughts will kick in and she can not do anything excet listen to them and change the band-aid. Aza knows that many of her actions are ridiculous, but she simply can not do anything except listen to her thoughts. All of these symptoms and situations that Aza experiences throughout the book show a clear cut picture of a person with

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While reading this passage, I discovered plenty of topics on which I shared similar views about stories and life in general, but also those which taught me about ideas I had never really considered prior. In my opinion, "in all the tellings of all the tellers, the world never leaves the turtle's back. And the turtle never swims away," (King, 1) is a very strong statement to start off with because it causes wonder among the readers as to what the literal meaning is, or if there is one at all. Through reading further, I understood that the author basically meant no matter how many details are incorporated or removed from a story, or whether there is a change in the sequence of events, the central concept, or teachings of the literary work remain.

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He focuses on the young adult generation for many different reasons. He has OCD and anxiety just like many of the young adults. Green really struggled with his mind there for a little while. He stated that “I couldn’t escape the spiral of my thoughts, and I felt like they were coming from the outside.” After Green went through and overcame this moment in his life, he was inspired to start writing “Turtles All the Way Down” This book really explains what it is like to live in the constant fear of your own mind.

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