Treatment Of Selfhood In John Green’s An Abundance Of Katherines

Abstract

Green discusses the relationship between a person’s given identity and his adopted identity is particularly interesting to him because it illustrates the way that adolescents vacillate between their biological families and their chosen network of friends. In An Abundance of Katherines identities being given to adolescents by their peers, and the recipients do not recognize the legitimacy of those assigned identities or accept them as valid. Green represents the fluctuating nature of the adolescent search for identity. This present research focuses the selfhood in An Abundance of Katherines.