By interpreting the author’s motivations through a Psychological Lens, it is clear that John Green’s childhood and the challenges he faced during it, show the comfort in his writing, through the concepts of protagonists, travel, and escape. When a reader reads Looking For Alaska and Paper Towns by John Green, it is evident that both books are extremely similar: not only do their protagonists have similar motives and traits, but also the concepts of travel and escape are noticeably similar between both books. These similarities show that John Green has trouble stepping out of his comfort zone and enjoys writing plots of the same sort of background.
These similarities are shown just through the storylines of two books. Looking For Alaska is …show more content…
Quentin Jacobsen is a boy living in Florida, who is quite intelligent and has always been in love with his childhood and current neighbor, Margo. Miles “Pudge” Halter is a boy going to a boarding school, although his hometown is in Florida, just like Quentin. He is also quite intelligent: he has a special talent, in which he memorizes famous people’s last words. He falls in love with the girl living down the hall, Alaska. Both Margo and Alaska are not very sympathetic people, and are not necessarily the people a parent would want their child hanging out with. Pudge’s friend, The Colonel, knew Alaska as a “selfish bitch”. Although Alaska didn’t have the characteristics most teenage boys look for, Pudge made her seem like a better girl in his mind, because he loved her. Margo was known as what some people think of as your “snobby popular girl”. Through this, Quentin still saw her as being, “so beautiful that even her fake smiles were …show more content…
Green tends to start his books with people, usually teenagers. He says, “These characters mix with questions that interest and/or haunt me: Why are we so interested in leaving a legacy? Can we construct meaning in a world that is so profoundly apathetic toward us? Is it possible to have a full life without having a long life?” (“Biographical Questions”). This shows that Green writes about things he doesn’t know much about, and hopes to be more familiar with them by the end of his
These similarities are shown just through the storylines of two books. Looking For Alaska is …show more content…
Quentin Jacobsen is a boy living in Florida, who is quite intelligent and has always been in love with his childhood and current neighbor, Margo. Miles “Pudge” Halter is a boy going to a boarding school, although his hometown is in Florida, just like Quentin. He is also quite intelligent: he has a special talent, in which he memorizes famous people’s last words. He falls in love with the girl living down the hall, Alaska. Both Margo and Alaska are not very sympathetic people, and are not necessarily the people a parent would want their child hanging out with. Pudge’s friend, The Colonel, knew Alaska as a “selfish bitch”. Although Alaska didn’t have the characteristics most teenage boys look for, Pudge made her seem like a better girl in his mind, because he loved her. Margo was known as what some people think of as your “snobby popular girl”. Through this, Quentin still saw her as being, “so beautiful that even her fake smiles were …show more content…
Green tends to start his books with people, usually teenagers. He says, “These characters mix with questions that interest and/or haunt me: Why are we so interested in leaving a legacy? Can we construct meaning in a world that is so profoundly apathetic toward us? Is it possible to have a full life without having a long life?” (“Biographical Questions”). This shows that Green writes about things he doesn’t know much about, and hopes to be more familiar with them by the end of his