Turtles All The Way Down Analysis
Turtles All the Way Down is a young adult novel written by John Green. It was published on October 10th, 2017 by Dutton Books. It is Greens fifth solo novel, and seventh overall.
16-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there is a 100 000-dollar reward at stake and her best and most fearless friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend and a good student, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
The book is seemingly about Aza and her friends as they look for the missing billionaire, but its real theme and story is about the main character Aza’s mental health and mind. You constantly get an insight …show more content…
All the characters in Turtles all the way down is extremely interested in the English language. They are all very well read. Some of the novels he references to is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night and Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The characters are also intrieged by the mechanics of language. They ask questions about parts of speech and sentence structure, as well as the words that offers to describe different untouchable things, like feelings. A lot of Aza's questions about the English language have to do with how she is unable to describe her mental pain and her thought spirals to her therapist or friends, let alone to herself. Her therapist, Dr. Singh, describes that although pain is unquestionably real, there are few words to really describe the depths or the details of someone's pain. This leads Aza to start questioning that if she can not describe herself and her pain, is she even real?
I have always loved John Green's novels for the smart writing and how the writing feels so natural. Turtles All the Way Down is one of his books where I felt like his characters became their own complex, real-life people that just rose out of the pages. Also during its most painful moments, there is a tenderness that radiates out of the book while you are reading. It is filled with quotes like "You are as real as anyone, and your doubts make you more real, not less." In this way the book delivers such an important message, it is okay not to be
16-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there is a 100 000-dollar reward at stake and her best and most fearless friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend and a good student, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
The book is seemingly about Aza and her friends as they look for the missing billionaire, but its real theme and story is about the main character Aza’s mental health and mind. You constantly get an insight …show more content…
All the characters in Turtles all the way down is extremely interested in the English language. They are all very well read. Some of the novels he references to is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night and Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The characters are also intrieged by the mechanics of language. They ask questions about parts of speech and sentence structure, as well as the words that offers to describe different untouchable things, like feelings. A lot of Aza's questions about the English language have to do with how she is unable to describe her mental pain and her thought spirals to her therapist or friends, let alone to herself. Her therapist, Dr. Singh, describes that although pain is unquestionably real, there are few words to really describe the depths or the details of someone's pain. This leads Aza to start questioning that if she can not describe herself and her pain, is she even real?
I have always loved John Green's novels for the smart writing and how the writing feels so natural. Turtles All the Way Down is one of his books where I felt like his characters became their own complex, real-life people that just rose out of the pages. Also during its most painful moments, there is a tenderness that radiates out of the book while you are reading. It is filled with quotes like "You are as real as anyone, and your doubts make you more real, not less." In this way the book delivers such an important message, it is okay not to be