The Analogies Between John Green's Books

If you are a book reader, you must have noticed a lot about the author by his way of writing. This happens a lot that some books seem to be a pack of emotions that we read and re read them and always find something new within them.

Likewise, John Green is one of the authors of bestselling young adult novels. His books have turned into good movies of all time. Like many other adults, I was also fascinated by John Green’s novels and the first book of this author that made a place on my shelf was “The Faults in Our Stars” Hazel and Augustus’s admirable relationship forms the heart of this book that pursue a romantic premise. I read this book and found it deeply resonant based on the theme of love, life and death. The movie was not as creditable as the book was; well the story had the pain that literally demanded to be felt.

The next novel of John Green that I hastily picked was “Looking for Alaska” which was actually his first novel. The protagonist, Pudge was an atypical, socially awkward, shy introverted male with limited friends. On the other hand, he fell in love with Alaska, who was a beautiful, alluring, lucratively charming girl with no care of her future. The exceptional thing which I liked the most about Pudge was his weird obsession of remembering famous people’s last words.

“Paper Towns” met my shelf after it was produced in a movie. The book had many clues and events or it wouldn’t be incorrect to say that the entire novel was the idea about identity. Margo, who was the mirror image of Alaska in “Looking for Alaska” leaves behind mysterious clues to her location for Quentin to find her when she runs away.

His books are not exactly same but there are a lot of inevitable parallels. The similarities between his books lie in recurring themes, the kind of characters and a “someone” always dying. The narrative is usually a high school bizarre male student who falls in love with loquacious, good looking, free spirit girl who is friends with him for being partner in crime for the sake of gaining revenge on all the folks who did wrong to her or to her best friend. The male character is always a buggy boy who is terrible at sports. One of the main characters dies in the middle or at the end of the novel just like Alaska dies in the middle of the novel, Margo runs away just to get herself missed and found, Augustus and Hazel finally realize that they have no future due to Hazel’s life-threatening thyroid cancer.

The conclusion is that maybe not all but the aforementioned books, especially “Looking for Alaska” and “Paper Towns”, have themes that are alike. Both the books have some puzzled up stories.

It is possible or in any case can be thought that all of his books might sound repetitive. If you’ve read his books, you might have found them analogous. However, his quirky style of writing undaunted young-age novels cannot stop one from reading his books on recommendations or watching them as a movie just to save a little bit of time.