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Book Report On Turtle All The Way Down

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In the book, Turtles All the Way Down, by John Green the main character, Aza, an anxious teenager and her best friend, Daisy go on some sort of adventure to find a missing rich kid, Davis pickett. At first Aza wasn’t going to go looking for him although she had known him personally before. After Daisy encouraged her with the reward Aza decided to go through with the plan. Aza was in need of money for her upcoming departure to college. The main theme of this story is that you can’t choose how to live your own life. Aza obviously has anxiety, and readers can tell that from the very first page she has a different outlook on the world and society than many other teens her age. Since she is the main character she is the main person to portray …show more content…

Aza came back in contact with Davis, her old friend, after Davis’s dad went missing and Aza went looking for clues to find his dad and get a reward. Davis is another reason of how the theme relates to everyone in this story. In the book it says,” “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” --WILLIAM JAMES I don’t know what superpower William James enjoyed, but I can no more choose my thoughts than choose my name. The way he talked about thoughts was the way I experienced them --not as a choice but as a destiny. Not a catalog of my consciousness, but a refutation of it.” In this quote, it is using another quote to contradict that quote. This quote gets the reader in the mindset of the characters and goes against the theme by itself but, then the readers learn that Davis doesn’t share the same feelings as the writer of the quote. Another quote that refers to the theme is “But Davis got it. You can’t choose. That’s the problem.” The author uses short sentences here to get straight to the point. Aza was only thinking about one thing and that was Davis. This connects to the theme of the book because it says how Davis can’t choose in his life. This makes the reader think how you need to realize that you don’t choose your own life to continue on. The author also uses descriptive language in many of his quotes to portray the right idea when readers are reading the

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