Theme of "An Abundance of Katherines"

After finishing my second consecutive John Green book, An Abundance of Katherines, I am enthusiastic to say that Green's writing does not disappoint. From my last post, a lot of major events happen. For one, Hassan gets cheated on by his trendy girlfriend by someone whom I am not going to name to prevent a spoiler. End the end however, Colin finally comes to the conclusion that the future is going to happen no matter what efforts you go through to stop it. He realizes that the past can build up to events in the future, he realizes that these events can have nothing to do with events in the future, he realizes that he needs to let his life go and start reinventing a new self.

In our society today, we are often so focused on our futures that we don't concentrate on the present. Teenagers, like Colin, Lindsey, and Hassan, are so focused on their futures at college, in love, and on their career that they don't self reflect enough to reinvent themselves into people can easily achieve these goals while savoring the present.

One of my favorite quotes from the last chapter of this book is: "And when Hassan turned over his full house, Colin all of the sudden realized: you can make a Theorem that explains why you won or lost past poker hands, but you can never make on to predict future poker hands," (Green 389).

This is one of my favorite quotes because this is the big moment when Colin realizes that he will never be able to predict how long his relationships are going to last.

We can apply this to our lives, too. Instead of spending our time being infatuated with the future, focus on the present and the small things that you can do to get you to this goal.

http://johngreenbooks.com/abundance-of-katherines/

This link is a review of An Abundance of Katherines done by several people. This way, you can see what other people also think about the book.