8 John Green Tropes And What They Really Mean

Though John Green has only published five novels (including one co-written by David Leviathan) and a bunch of short stories, he has achieved amazing worldwide success since the release of his first novel Looking For Alaska (published in 2005), selling hundreds of thousands of books around the globe and seeing his work translated into over a dozen different languages. For such a comparatively small body of work, then, it's amazing how quickly Green has established a reputation as a writer who interacts with certain tropes. These include extremely exaggerated love interests and a certain penchant for repeated turns of phrase €“ but how these tropes appear on the surface isn't necessarily what they truly mean. After all, the most fascinating thing about tropes in John Green's writing is that they're rarely used unintentionally, or through narrative ignorance. Indeed, one of the most endearing qualities of Green's stories is the self-awareness with which they're written. The same goes for all of the tropes on this list...