Turtles All the Way Down

One of the morals Turtles All the Way Down teaches us is that we are stronger when we share our struggles with others. If you recall, sixteen-year-old Aza struggles with both anxiety and obsessive...

John Green's Turtle's All the Way Down is rich in the use of simile, particularly in order to explain an individual's lived experience and emotions. One such simile touches on love, a central theme...

Turtles All the Way Down culminates with the gruesome discovery by Daisy and Aza, freshly reunited after their argument and Aza’s stay in hospital, of the runaway Pickett’s body. They are alerted...

Aza's father dying impacts her anxiety largely because it removes the person who would best understand it from her life and family. Aza's anxiety and OCD are ongoing problems throughout her life....

There are a few clues that they find in Turtles All the Way Down that help them find Mr. Pickett. The Picture In chapter 3, Daisy and Aza go across the river by Pickett’s golf course searching for...

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green is a story about a high schooler named Aza who suffers from anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Aza is constantly fixated on germs to the point of...

A simile is a literary device in which two unlike things are compared for effect using the word “like” or “as.” Numerous similes can be found in Josh Green’s novel. In the first chapter of Turtles...

Noah Pickett is Davis's little brother. He's 13. Noah and Davis are the sons of billionaire Russell Pickett. He's missing, and there's a $100,000 reward for anyone who finds him. He's a very...

One loss that Aza, the protagonist, experiences is the death of her father, who passed away before the novel’s action begins. She mentions one aspect of the mourning process: attending a camp for...

Aza begins the story as a teenager who is afflicted with debilitating anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder that controls every aspect of her life. In fact, she is so preoccupied by her mental...

Much of the novel’s plot involves the search for Davis Pickett Sr., a billionaire who has gone missing. Ava and Daisy get involved in the search because Daisy wants to claim the reward. The plot...

A helpful approach when looking at how a character changes throughout a story is to compare who they are when they are introduced to who they are as their part in the story concludes. While Davis...

While reviews and summaries of Turtles All the Way Down often describe Aza Holmes as suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder, Aza herself does not use that term in the novel. According to Aza,...

In Turtles All the Way Down by John Green, the protagonist is Aza Holmes, and she must battle against a challenging antagonist, namely her mental illness, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). There...

In John Green's Turtles All the Way Down, Aza's defining moments occur when she enters into a relationship with Davis and kisses him, when she reads Daisy's fan fiction, when she gets into a car...

Turtles All the Way Down is a 2017 young adult novel written by John Green. The plot centers around the protagonist, Aza Holmes, a 16-year-old student who suffers from OCD and anxiety. Aza grieves...

Turtles All the Way Down is primarily a novel of ideas. Some of the themes it explores are mental health and illness, love, friendship, agency, death, pain, and the power of language. These themes...

The primary problems that John Green addresses are the strength of friendship when it is tested, and the challenges of living with mental illness. The characters of Aza and Daisy are best friends...

Although this set of questions calls for a personal response, the following points should help you to answer. First, Turtles All the Way Down is generally regarded as being exceptionally...

One way to compare John Green’s novel Turtles All the Way Down to the Mumford & Sons's song “Hopeless Wanderer” is to think about how the melody relates to the novel. The music itself, separate...

John Green's Turtles All the Way Down certainly does not have a traditional happy ending where everything works out in the end, but it does leave the main character with some important realizations...

In writing a review and critique of John Green's Turtles All the Way Down, you will clearly be influenced by the aspects of the book (particular characters, plot, themes, images) which appealed to...

The overall tone of the first quarter of John Green’s novel Turtles All the Way Down can be described as ironic, funny, personal, and analytical. The opening paragraphs might be called ironic...