Analysis Of Colin Singleton's An Abundance Of Katherines

“The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath,” (3). In the book An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. Colin Singleton is a prodigy, not a genius. When he gets dumped by Katherine the XIX, the nineteenth Katherine that Colin has had a relationship with, he finds himself thinking about having a Eureka moment. A Eureka moment that will lead Colin from a child prodigy to genius like most of his role models will make him find his real meaning in life. He drops out of his summer classes at Northwestern to go on a road trip with his best friend Hassan to try to persuade a Eureka moment out of himself. He decides that his “moment” should come out of the loss of the woman he loved, so, he mathematically calculates how his relationships with all nineteen Katherines ended, began, and everything in …show more content…
At first Colin is in Chicago, the place he has grown up in, the place he finds out he is a prodigy in, and the place he and nineteen Katherines have broken up. Then Colin goes on his trip with Hassan to Tennessee a new place for a new Colin. While in Tennessee, Colin finds himself second guessing his choices in life and about where he wants to be. Also, the change of scenery is showing that for his life up to that point Colin has lived in Chicago and has never been able to find his missing piece or summon a Eureka moment. Now in Tennessee, Colin is pushing himself to go new places to find who he is meant to be while using his love of knowledge to get there. Also, the change in setting also represents how his life is going from scheduled and organized to more of a “go with the flow” type of way. Chicago is where Colin’s parents controlled his every choice and Tennessee represents where can chose his own path. Chicago and Tennessee represent a lot that contribute to the