Colin Singleton's An Abundance Of Katherine

In the short story “the White Heron” (1886), Sarah Jewett portrays a young little girl, Sylvia, bear the temptation of money and affection from the young man with mental struggle, and resolutely determined to protect the fairy of nature – a white heron. Through describing Sylvia’s authentic emotions and using of vivid theme colors and exquisite word choice, Jewett delivers the story like showing a lifelike 19-century country-life drama in front of the readers.

Willy undermines her authority with the boys. He denies any negative comments out of her mouth when their children are discussed. He interrupts her. He shouts at her. Linda reacts with veiled hostility to Willy?s disrespect. She laughs at the idea of planting a garden, pointing to Willy?s past failures at growing a garden. Every time Linda pokes at his failures, she is retaliating against Willy?s failures and the fact that she has been pulled into Willy?s dead end dream against her will.

There is significant evidence throughout both 'The Long Queen ' and The Map Women ' to indicate that suffering is a central element of female experience. Both of these poems are present in the 'Feminine Gospels ' written by Carol Ann Duffy. The collection of poetry is seen to be teachings of feminism aiming to provide the reader visions of female identity. One feature of this identity that is examined within these two poems is the theme of mental and physical suffering that women universally endure.

The Storied Life of a.J. Fikry is a novel written by Gabrielle Zevin. The stories titular character A.J. is a bottom end of the barrel at the start of the story. He is traumatized by his young wife’s death and his ill nature has slowly taken the better of him. After series of miraculous events lead to A.J. taking care of a child he slowly changes from his Grinch like nature to a more kind and open hearted person. Throughout the story, A.J. transforms into a selfless man willing to give all to his family.

In Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo is more successful than Doris Pilkington, author of Rabbit Proof Fence,in conveying the challenges faced by the main character. Boo uses mood to develop the idea of the main character’s harsh life. She also uses word choice to show the difficulties in Abdul’s life. By doing this the reader deeply understands how difficult Abdul’s life is in Behind the Beautiful Forevers, better than the reader could understand the difficulties of the Aboriginals in Rabbit Proof Fence.

The main characters of this novel are Gene and Finny. Gene is 5’8.5 and weighs 145 lbs. He is jealous of Finny the whole story. Gene is a student at Devon school and he is best friends with Finny. Gene is trying to beat Finny in everything but Finny is really good at everything he does. Finny is 5’8.5 and weighs about 150 lbs. He is very athletic, the most athletic person at his school. He is very daring and he talks his way out of everything. Finny says “No, you are the same height i am, five eight and a half. We are on the short side” (16). Finny thinks of Gene as his best friend. Gene said “You do not need to worry about me, Finny” (52).

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton, a seventeen year old prodigy, knows all about them. Furthermore, he has been in nineteen to be, all with girls whose name contain the same nine letters; K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. Colin also knows a thing or two about being dumped, as he has been dumped by each one of the nineteen Katherines. After all of his heartbreak, Colin decides to go on a road trip with his best friend Hassan. They discovered a town that changes everything for them. In An Abundance of Katherines, Colin learns how to cope with the feeling of love and the heartbreak that goes along with it.

Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers is a non-fiction book. Boo got to know the people there during the course of three years in India, and she wrote about the daily stresses and problems. The book describes a long story of life, death, and hope. It takes place near an international airport in a Mumbai undercity that is separated from the normal world by the “beautiful forever” wall. Boo describes how every resident of Annawadi in Mumbai is involved in the strife of day-to-day living and how each has plans to improve their situation. Annawadi is a society that subsists on the leftovers and castoffs from the affluent, and a society where corruption runs rampant. Boo has shown us how our lives and the people’s lives in Mumbai are different.

Emily Kokidko was born March 27th, 1996 in Newton, Massachusetts. Always an expressive child, she enjoyed making up characters and stories with her friends and family. Though she long had a strong desire to act, she officially began her journey her junior year of high school. Emily was selected to be the lead Deanie Loomis in her high school production of "Splendor in the Grass", despite having no prior acting experience. Emily instantly caught the theatre bug, and she continued to be an engaged member of her high school's theatre program. Also during her late high school years, she was an extra in the film "Tumbledown", which enticed her to explore film acting.

“To freely bloom - That is my definition of success.” This is how Gerry Spence, a semi-retired American trial lawyer, views the meaning of the word bloom. Spence, also never losing a criminal case as a defense attorney and prosecutor since 2014, is a trustworthy source. He believes that to be successful in life is for one to bloom freely and truly. For one to glow confidently and without hesitation. To not be afraid to show their true self to themselves and to others. Bloom is a radiant, happy, and youthful glow in a person’s complexion.

While growing up he was constantly ridiculed and singled out for being more “mature” but in the eyes of his classmates he was just boring. When dating he was dumped and left behind causing him to grow paranoid of not knowing what would happen in the future. In order to avoid him being left behind again he obsesses over creating a formula to predict the outcome of every relationship. He spends so much time obsessing over his formula that he neglects his friend. This leads to a massive fight where Hassan confronts him on the issue of his paranoia.By the end of the book Colin realizes that there is nothing he can do to predict the future. This is proven to him when his relationship with Lindsey outlasts the formulas prediction. Colin realizes that the only thing he can do is sit back and watch thing play out. That there is no way to predict the future or what will come of

The theme of this book is a kid named ryan who needs to find his own path to success. The reasons why are one he doesn’t have friends. The second reason is he was born with a disability. The third and my final reason is he wants to be as good as Josh when he plays sports.

The sitcom/sequel takes you through various lessons every child must learn, along with new hurdles for the three single women to overcome in 2016 (updating Facebook profile, getting their kids to school, finding adequate babysitters and of course their dating life). Dj Tanner-Fuller, the newly widow, and mother of three boys has to juggle her job as a veterinarian, dating again and raising her boys fatherless. But have the help of her sister, Stephanie Tanner, who leaves her career as a DJ in London to help her sister, and her childhood friend Kimmy Gibbler, who now is a party planner and brings along her tween daughter, Ramona as they raise the four children together. Jackson Fuller, DJ’s eldest son struggles to cope with middle school, the death of his father and living alongside

Colin’s life has finally regained some semblance of normalcy after the death of his girlfriend, Jesse. He no longer hunts supernatural creatures. He has a job working in his uncle’s salvage yard that he enjoys. He’s even planning to start college in the fall.

I am reading An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green. It has been a very fun and interesting book so far, and I am excited to continue reading it farther on. The main theme of this book revolves around love. I would say another big theme it revolves around is pity. The main character, Colin is a great example of self pity.