Colin Singleton's An Abundance Of Katherines

Neil Gaiman once said “ A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” When I first heard this quote I immediately thought of the unpredictable book An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. This book is about a guy named Colin Singleton who has been a child prodigy since the age of two and only dates girls with name Katherine. After being dumped by the nineteenth Katherine or K-19 he finds himself on a road trip with his lazy, overweight, and sometimes muslim best friend Hassan. On this roadtrip, Colin tries to solve what he calls The Theorem of Katherine Predictability so he can hopefully find his soulmate and have a purpose in life. During their adventure they meet this girl named Lindsey Lee Wells who becomes a close friend with the boys, and little does Colin know there is much more to life than a girl

Culture: “the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group” (Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, definition 5b). In her book Behind The Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo examines issues of culture, integrating them into a unique, nonfiction work. Ms. Boo—an award winning journalist—uses her life experiences as well as the culture and setting of the book to influence the plot, characters, and development of the story by focusing on three cultural observations: a vast disparity between rich and poor, yet similarity in the actions of those groups; a social hierarchy among the residents of Annawadi as a function of their appearance, gender, and religious beliefs; and a relative moral landscape as a result of a developing culture of poverty.

The title of this novel is An Abundance of Katherines. The genre is young adult fiction. This novel takes place in Gutshot, Tennessee, a made up city. The time period is in the 2,000’s.

Report on An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green (215). An Abundance of Katherines is about Colin Singleton, a smart high school graduate from Chicago, as he mourns and tries to get his life figured out after being broken up with by his nineteenth girlfriend named Katherine. In addition to his girlfriend calling off their relationship, he is forced to come to terms with the fact that he is now an adult and no longer the special and prodigious child that he had been all his life. To assist him out of his rut, his best friend, Hassan, decides to accompany him on a summer road trip.

In John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines, teenage prodigy, Colin Singleton, only dates girls named Katherine. In the beginning, Colin is dumped by Katherine number nineteen. Distraught, Colin decides to go on a road trip with his obese, Lebanese friend, Hassan to clear his mind off of Katherine. Meanwhile, the freshly-single Colin creates a theorem of dumpers and dumpees to find out how long a relationship between two people will last.

John Green said, “How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?” We have two kind of people related to this question: the ones that may ask this once in a lifetime and don’t care so much about it and the second ones, who may be people that are constantly afraid of this, of not leaving anything to be remembered or not doing something ‘remarkable’ in their whole life.

Ivy Kaltenschnee Kaltenschnee 1 Mr. Hyde English II Pre-AP, Period 4 1-22-16 An Abundance of Katherines John Green SETTING The setting of An Abundance of Katherines takes place inside of a fictional town, Gutshot, Tennessee. Although, the main character, Colin, lives in Chicago despite the majority of the novel taking place in Tennessee.

The theme of love connection between people is a very important part of life. I choose this theme as it is a very relevant and relatable subject for many people in our society. The four texts I chose were: the fictional novel ‘Delirium’, by Lauren Oliver, the song ‘Blank Space’ by Taylor Swift, song ‘Same Love’ by Macklemore and fictional novel ‘Girl Online’, by Zoe Sugg. There was a strong connection of love between two people in all of these texts.

Colin Singleton has has 19 relationships with girls named Katherine, all of which have not ended well. Colin’s best friend Hassan convinces Colin to take a road trip, to get his mind off of everything that happens. As they travel around they meet new people and see new places. Colin and Hassan take a wrong turn and end up in Tennessee. When they find a convenience store, they hope it will have

Your book has changed my perspective of life. Like I learned never judge or label someone just by looks. Also it taught to be grateful to have things. It also showed me don't take your education for granted as it's really important and some people don't have it and would die for the chance. The way you wrote this was a delightful mind changing story. I never thought that a book would ever do something like that until I read Lyddie. This book had very great lessons through the book. This book has changed my mindset for better thank you Katherine Paterson.

Two teenagers named Theodore Finch and Violet Markey are two very different people but both have pain in some kind of way, by Violet’s dead sister and Finch’s no motivation to live. After they both meet each other at the bell tower of their school they connect together and create the positive out of the negative. Life starts to become perfect but maybe too

Fred and Brandon are both extremely different in their character, Fred a clean-living individual and he is very good at his studies while Brandon is very irresponsible and very poor at his studies. Finally Fred got graduated and he was the first place in their collage, but Brandon is always with Fred, so he did care about his future because they are conjoined. Jesse Miller, a beautiful young girl, she joins their dad’s business as an accountant. Fred falls for Jesse and Brandon notices Fred’s love and he helps Fred to get Jesse. Jesse and her Russian friend Volga dedicates their time with the twin brothers. Meanwhile, Fred expresses his love to Jesse, and she falls for Fred and Brandon is very happy for their relationship. Then, the Russian friend of Jesse, Volga revealed to be a secret agent who strains to steal the trade secrets of their dad’s top-selling product ‘Energies’.

The rising action of this novel comes when Colin's best and only friend, Hassan Harbish, convinces him to go on a road trip with him to cure Colin’s recent break up with Katherine, Hassan feels that they should depart on a road trip. After convincing their parents that a road trip is a good idea, Colin and Hassan go south from their home in Chicago. Colin goes along with the idea, hoping to find his "eureka" moment on the way. After driving all the way from Chicago to Tennessee, they come across the alleged resting place of the body of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. They arrive in a small town called Gutshot where they meet Lindsey Lee Wells, who has a smile that could “end wars and cure cancer." (pg 57 of the An Abundance of Katherines).

The Well by Elizabeth Jolley and Relationship of Hester and Katherine Hester Harper is a lonely, single lady in The Well. It was her loneliness, lack of love and need for companionship that made her bring Katherine home. She did not have a life of her own. Katherine was an unloved child, who had already been rejected by people in her country until she luckily met with Hester. Katherine formed a close relationship with Hester, and soon realised that Hester was quite fond of her.

Rachel Holdberg began her daily morning routine; greeting me as I sat down, and opening the mouth that failed the test of shutting the hell up. Unfortunately, the fate of “alphabetical order” placed me directly in front of her- the pudgy, bothered, teenager who enjoyed every moment of her life when she wasn’t living it. She, sadly, was not bilingual. Rachel would speak a language that would come straight out of an Edgar Allan Poe essay— one that emphasized that of dead roses, dismay, death, decay or something around the topic of doomsday, she would fluently rehearse a speech in a repetition that lasted for however long class period did. Luckily for me, however, I was blessed with the gift of seeing through rose colored glasses, in which no one, not even Rachel Holdberg, could crack.