Summary: An Abundance Of Katherines
Sierra Moore
Journal 1
An Abundance of Katherines
Page 163 (+444 from It’s Kind of a Funny Story)
Typically cross-country-roadtrips are perceived as a side effect of adolescent impulsiveness, but not in Colin’s case. In An Abundance of Katherines, the main character, Colin, was a child prodigy. As he grows, and continues in college, he struggles to maintain that status. After a rough breakup, he is convinced by his friend Hassan, to go on a sojourn over the summer. Over the course of their journey together, Colin In An Abundance of Katherines the search for meaning, love, and knowledge are by far the most important.
In his search for meaning, Colin is constantly struggling. As a child, he was proclaimed a prodigy, and is constantly trying …show more content…
Between his mannerism and habitual traits, Colin’s search for love has been a tentative one. He has dated 17 girls with the same exact name. His first and most recent girlfriend were the same girl, and by far the most important to him. The first time they were together was over the duration of 3 minutes, and the most recent was for almost an entire year. Over the course of that year he learned to break free of his meticulous manner of thinking, but not enough to keep the relationship afloat. He spent months searching for her love before dating her the second time, and once he found it he was utterly smitten. Her love an insidious parasite, embedding itself discreetly into every aspect of his life. (smiley, metaphor) After the break up, Colin felt as if he were missing a piece without her. The search is key to Colins growth as a person. Earlier on in his life, the searches were much simpler, like interviewing applicants to fill a simple job. (smiley, simile) Later it develops into something obsessively rational, “Love is graphical! (Green 43)”. Colin, desperate to validate the feelings consuming him, attempts to create The Theorem. The Theorem being a mathematical equation expressing how love works, and predicting the aftermath of it. Later in the novel the exceptions of his Theorem begin to dawn on him, which is crucial to his perspective broadening. With his changed perspective he can enjoy …show more content…
What he finds on his somewhat juvenile roadtrip becomes so much more than materialistic momentos. He grows as a person to see a side of life he previously turned a blind eye to. (smiley, full circle)
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I would like to give myself an A on this journal because I put my best effort forth. I spent three times as much energy and time on this compared to my last journal. Most of which spent of re-reading, double checking all the handouts, and writing an outline.
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Vocab albeit (3): although prostrate (8): laying stretched out, face down malign (14): malevolent diatribe (29): bitter, verbal attack on someone/thing else guileful (31): insidiously cunning chagrin (31): distress/embarrassment at having been humiliated
Works Cited
Green, John. An Abundance of Katherines. New York, NY: Dutton, 2006.
Journal 1
An Abundance of Katherines
Page 163 (+444 from It’s Kind of a Funny Story)
Typically cross-country-roadtrips are perceived as a side effect of adolescent impulsiveness, but not in Colin’s case. In An Abundance of Katherines, the main character, Colin, was a child prodigy. As he grows, and continues in college, he struggles to maintain that status. After a rough breakup, he is convinced by his friend Hassan, to go on a sojourn over the summer. Over the course of their journey together, Colin In An Abundance of Katherines the search for meaning, love, and knowledge are by far the most important.
In his search for meaning, Colin is constantly struggling. As a child, he was proclaimed a prodigy, and is constantly trying …show more content…
Between his mannerism and habitual traits, Colin’s search for love has been a tentative one. He has dated 17 girls with the same exact name. His first and most recent girlfriend were the same girl, and by far the most important to him. The first time they were together was over the duration of 3 minutes, and the most recent was for almost an entire year. Over the course of that year he learned to break free of his meticulous manner of thinking, but not enough to keep the relationship afloat. He spent months searching for her love before dating her the second time, and once he found it he was utterly smitten. Her love an insidious parasite, embedding itself discreetly into every aspect of his life. (smiley, metaphor) After the break up, Colin felt as if he were missing a piece without her. The search is key to Colins growth as a person. Earlier on in his life, the searches were much simpler, like interviewing applicants to fill a simple job. (smiley, simile) Later it develops into something obsessively rational, “Love is graphical! (Green 43)”. Colin, desperate to validate the feelings consuming him, attempts to create The Theorem. The Theorem being a mathematical equation expressing how love works, and predicting the aftermath of it. Later in the novel the exceptions of his Theorem begin to dawn on him, which is crucial to his perspective broadening. With his changed perspective he can enjoy …show more content…
What he finds on his somewhat juvenile roadtrip becomes so much more than materialistic momentos. He grows as a person to see a side of life he previously turned a blind eye to. (smiley, full circle)
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I would like to give myself an A on this journal because I put my best effort forth. I spent three times as much energy and time on this compared to my last journal. Most of which spent of re-reading, double checking all the handouts, and writing an outline.
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Vocab albeit (3): although prostrate (8): laying stretched out, face down malign (14): malevolent diatribe (29): bitter, verbal attack on someone/thing else guileful (31): insidiously cunning chagrin (31): distress/embarrassment at having been humiliated
Works Cited
Green, John. An Abundance of Katherines. New York, NY: Dutton, 2006.