Colin Singleton's An Abundance Of Katherine

An Abundance of Katherines speaks to a group of kids who just can’t seem to get it right. The main character, Colin Singleton, is exactly what I look for in a main character in a book. He’s a child prodigy with an IQ over 200, his entire life he has been expected to excel in all things academic. Most of his life he has been told to be good at things since he was about three, so he went to a special school and made no friends, except maybe his private tutor who could keep up with him intellectually. That’s not what is strange about Colin, what is strange however is the fact that every girl he’s ever dated has been named Katherine. He doesn’t have a type other than the name and it has to be K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. He’s dated a whole nineteen Katherines
Well, as a teenager anything bad that happens to us is the literal ending of the world. An old man is dying; he’s ninety and he has seen everything he wanted to see in his life, his world is ending and he accepts it. But a teenager’s world ends almost daily. Bad hair days, getting into fights, someone you don’t like breathing in your direction, it’s all cataclysmic from here. Colin has taught us something, after his world has ended so many times something beautiful comes from it. He has taken something from each Katherine, a love for something new. He learns something new from each Katherine, a new appreciation for something. More importantly he learns to rebuild his world, after each Katherine becomes his whole world and then breaks up with him, his whole world crumbles. I’m not here to preach about how perfect Colin is, he is riddled with social anxiety and is ridiculously smart, and he only seems to remember things that are deeply uninteresting to normal
Colin Singleton made an adventure out of running from his problems and it in turn helped him solve his problems. We need to learn to live our lives for us, not a Katherine or a Colin, but for ourselves. Our world might consist of a lot of things but we need to live our spontaneous road trip of a life for the driver. So, I guess that’s what Colin taught me and what we should’ve taken from the book; our lives are going to get pretty bad sometimes and when they do, because they will, we need to learn that falling down isn’t the end of the world for