John Green Impact

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John Green was born on August 24th, 1977 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is an american author and he also does some acting. His impact on American Literature is romance. One of his first novels was Looking for Alaska, which had won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Awards. But John Green’s book The Fault in Our Stars is his 6th novel, but one of the best selling books.
That novel alone had a gross “more than $300 million worldwide and certifying his status as a YA rock star.” according to (C+A). Which later turned into a movie the same with his novel Paper Towns.
All of John Green’s novels somehow had something to do with young love. But the novel The Fault in Our Stars was about young love with the teenagers that some sort of cancer. The two main charcter where Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters. This novel is about these two falling in love and then in the end she loses her love. He was her first and so was he to her.
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Like it doesn’t matter what you look like or what is missing from your body (leg, arm, and etc.). So many people these days think about looks and money. But John Green changes his readers perspectives with every novel they read.
With Paper Towns it’s mainly about this young boy and girl who have lived across the street from each. Secretly Quentin Jacobsen is secretly in love with Margo Roth Spiegelman. He never has the never to ask her out or tell her how he feels, until one day she goes missing. Margo give him clues that only he can figure

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