Turtles All the Way Down

Aza is a 16-year-old hero of this novel. She suffered from anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder throughout her life. She spends a lot of time thinking about whether she is genuine or not, and when she was a child, she gained obsession to test whether she is genuine or not. It is an incision. But she is also afraid of bacteria, especially C. diff. She has to bundle it again several times a day to force her finger scratches open again, clean it, clean it and keep the bacteria free. The fear of Aza's bacteria has put her into a thing called "spiritual spiral". And her idea of ​​fear occupied her mind and made her panic. Around this time, she did not feel that she dominated her idea. As she does not like anything else to decide who she is and what she is doing, Aza often refuses to take her medicine. Begin a romantic relationship with Davis, let Aza's idea speed up the spiral speed - especially when they kiss, Aza can no longer think of Davis' bacteria in her body. These factors, coupled with her discoveries by her best friend Daisy 's unbearable character Ayala, pushed Aza' s spiritual collapse. After Aza was hospitalized for a car accident, her mother grabbed the disinfectant in her hand. This confrontation eventually made Aza recognize that she was bad and needed help. Aza took a new medicine on a regular basis a few weeks after the accident, but her illness was always part of her, so it became more comfortable. She noticed that she would never be completely recovered and she realized that she would have to work hard to become "comprehensive diversification" rather than a single "I". At the end of the novel, the reader knew that the novel is a product of the third mental disintegration of Aza in later life, and the psychiatrist told her to write her story. Writing actions teach aza, she continues, and she deserves love

John the Turtles, Green John Turtles offers a wondrous and fun adventure with an attractive combination of high school episode lines that frequently appear in John Green's books. The novel is spoken through Aza's eyes suffering from anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. When a strange businessman disappeared, Aza and her friend Daisy started acting in hopes of receiving a reward of 100,000 dollars. In the process of understanding what happened, Aza must make use of the world of friends and boy's plays and strive to improve her mental health. The end result is an interesting, sometimes sad story that is worth reading. - Kayla Tuchman, grade 2018

In all contemporary contexts, "turtles are down" is mentioned. For example, "Turtles All the Way Down" is the name of a song by country artist Sturgill Simpson of 2014 country music album "Metamodern Sounds in Country Music". Turtles All The Way Down is also a title of John Green's 2017 novel about a girl with obsessive compulsive disorder. Famous scientists (such as Bertrand Russell) are giving public lectures on astronomy. He explained how the earth orbits the sun and how the sun goes around the center of numerous stars known as the Milky Way. At the end of the lecture, an old lady behind the room stood up and said, "You say that it is garbage, the world is actually a flat plate that is supported behind a huge turtle." Science He replied. Where is it? "You are smart, young, very smart," the old lady said.

There seems to be many myths and anecdotes behind "the turtle is falling down". Even recent novels are well thought out. If the world remains behind a huge tortoise, what does this turtle rely on? Of course, there is a bigger turtle. When we understand something, the way we understand it depends on other things we already know. These epistemological turtles have their own way of living, their own order, and in these respects the world can not flatten. When you find out that the cornerstones we know are completely wrong (and are ready to acknowledge it), you may need to reconsider and rearrange many of the things we know .