John Green Research Articles

“Nothing about us, without us”: A dis/abled depiction of psyche

Background This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the themes of lack, desire, and denial in the realm of disability culture as conceptualized by Dan Goodley. In Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction (2011), Goodley re-examines the psychoanalysis of disabled characters, Emphasizing the necessity of a critical approach to psychoanalysis rather than a blind alignment with it. Despite this caution, he investigates potential connections between Lacanian theory and disability studies, acknowledging the current literature on this topic is limited and lacks further development. Nevertheless, the author argues that psychoanalysis is most effective when used to understand the biases and prejudices faced by handicapped individuals in a culture, as well as the unrealistic expectations of extreme rationality and independence in modern society. Method The research juxtaposes the disability portrayals in J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man, written from an abled author’s perspective, and John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down, written from a disabled author’s perspective. Through meticulous evaluation of these works, the article uncovers how the writers’ individual encounters and viewpoints influence their depiction of disability. Result The analysis uncovers notable disparities in the portrayal of disability in the two works. These disparities are influenced by the authors’ personal experiences and perspectives, highlighting the significant differences in how abled and disabled authors depict disability. Conclusion This approach reveals the significance of having a variety of perspectives in literature, specifically focusing on the influential role of authors with disabilities in establishing disability culture and promoting a nuanced comprehension of disability within society. It promotes a nuanced comprehension of disability within society, underlining the critical role of varied authorial viewpoints in enriching the understanding of disability.

TEENAGE SOCIAL LIFE IN GREEN’S LOOKING FOR ALASKA : A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH

The purpose of this study is to analyze the teenage social life in Looking for Alaska by John Green. This research is classified as a qualitative study. The primary source for data collection is the novel itself, Looking for Alaska by John Green, while secondary sources include relevant journals and articles available on the internet. These secondary sources provide additional information to support a comprehensive analysis of the research topic. The data analysis employs Freud's psychoanalytic theory, specifically focusing on the three fundamental components of Id, Ego, and Superego. The findings indicate that the teenage years encompass both positive and negative experiences during the process of growth and development. The positive things identified include group activities, collaborative learning, and read books from famous authors. Conversely, negative impacts observed involve experimentation with smoking, alcohol consumption, breaking school rules and watching porn movies. Based on this data, the writer concludes that when living life as a teenager, there are positive and negative things that are experienced during the growth process.

The carnation revolution of 1974 and its legacy

John Green takes us back 50 years to the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Portugal: a personal reminiscence from a TV journalist who witnessed the revolutionary process firsthand, from April 1974 onwards. He explains how the armed struggles for colonial freedom in Africa triggered the momentous events in Portugal and how a more than 40-year-old fascist dictatorship was overthrown by progressive soldiers in the Portuguese army. He examines the significance and legacy of that revolution for us today.

Examination of How Perception and Influence Impacts the Lives of Children with Chronic Illness in John Green’s Novel The Fault in Our Stars

Examination of How Perception and Influence Impacts the Lives of Children with Chronic Illness in John Green’s Novel The Fault in Our Stars

Translation of idiomatic Expressions in “Looking for Alaska” into Indonesian

It is still a great debate whether a translator needs to substitute idiomatic expressions in the source with the idiomatic expressions in the target language. A translator plays a significant role in connecting the author and the reader. The present research examined the Indonesian translation of English idioms encountered in the novel of Looking for Alaska by John Green. This research employed a descriptive qualitative method. The data were sorted out from this novel as the corpus. There were 94 idioms encountered in the examined novel. The institutionalization-characterized idioms appeared the most frequent, and the least frequently employed idioms were characterized frozenness. The idioms were mostly translated through paraphrasing.Keywords: Idioms, translation, novel

Editorial: In Honour of Rebecca L. Oxford’s Contributions to Language Learning Strategies, Language Teaching, and Peacebuilding

I first got to know Rebecca when I was researching a topic for my own PhD back in the 1990s. As anyone who has trodden this path will know, trying to find something novel, feasible, and about which one can be sufficiently excited to sustain the enthusiasm through the hours of work involved, is no easy ask. Then I came across an article on language learning strategies by John Green and Rebecca (1995) in a journal which had recently arrived in the Auckland Institute of Studies (AIS) library, where I was working at the time, and I knew this was it. I wrote to Rebecca asking for permission to use the SILL (Strategy Inventory for Language Learning) in my thesis, permission which she unhesitatingly gave, and which resulted in the completion of my thesis some years later (Griffiths, 2003). She also invited me to join her on conference presentations, a number of which we have done together in many places around the world in the years since. There have also been a number of joint publications, such as the special issue on language learning strategies with System (2014).

Rising Defense Mechanisms: Excessive Anxiety and OCD behaviors in John Green The Fault in Our Stars

يعاني الأشخاص المصابون باضطراب الوسواس القهري من أفكار تطفلية منتظمة جدًا يمكن أن تسبب القلق وتتداخل مع الحياة اليومية. يؤدي الارتباط القوي بين الأفكار المتطفلة والسلوكيات القهرية إلى قلق ملحوظ. قد يقوم الأفراد بسلوكيات أو طقوس متكررة ويصبحون أكثر قلقًا إذا لم يتمكنوا من إكمالها. وبالتالي، تم تصنيف الوسواس القهري على أنه اضطراب القلق. ولهذا السبب، ستتتبع الورقة البحثية الحالية العلاقة المتبادلة بين القلق كمحفز لسلوكيات الوسواس القهري في رواية جون جرين عن السرطان، الخطأ في نجومنا. يوفر جرين سياقًا أساسيًا لسرد المرض من أجل تسليط الضوء على قضايا مهمة مثل التصوير الدقيق والواقعي للسرطان، وخاصة في التجربة الحياتية للمراهقين. كما وجدت هذه الدراسة، فإن الشخصيات الرئيسية في الرواية، هيزل وأغسطس وإسحاق، يشعرون بمشاعر القلق المفرط ويحاولون تحييد مخاوفهم. يستخدمون العديد من آليات الدفاع مثل التثبيت والتبرير والإنكار والعمل لتهدئة مخاوفهم.

The Man’s Struggle In Dealing With Life’s Conflict as Seen in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars

The title of this research is "The Man's Struggle in Dealing With Life's Conflict As Seen in John Green's The Fault In Our Stars". The problem of this research is focused on the problems of internal and external conflicts experienced by woman and man as the main characters. The purpose of this research is to find out the struggles of woman and man as the main characters in dealing with life conflicts described in the novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. This research is descriptive qualitative research. The technique used in this research is literature to obtain certain data by searching and collecting several books related to conflict analysis in literature, by quoting sentences or words that indicate conflict, and then describing them. In the main character conflict, there are two characters who are considered as the main characters because they dominate the whole story, they are Hazel and Augustus. The research uses the theory of conflict by Wallek and Warren (1956). Conflict into two parts, namely external conflict and internal conflict. Conflict with other characters in a story or conflict with social environment which is called external conflict. While the conflict that occurs in the heart and mind, in the soul of a character or character in a story is called internal conflict. The results of this research indicate that the development of the main character in the novel is influenced by situations, people, and feelings. At first, Hazel is a girl who likes to be alone, spending her time only at home, reading books and watching tv. She then becomes a girl who wants to share with others and have friends. Augustus at first is a boy who thinks and tries to handle everything on his own, he does not want to be pitied, eventually he realizes that he needs other people in his life and is grateful for what others do to him.

«Healing is Like Falling in Love, but Deeper»: Romance and Intertextuality in Junauda Petrus’s «The Stars and the Blackness Between Them»

This article examines Junauda Petrus’s The Stars and the Blackness Between Them (2020) – a literary debut telling the story of two black girls from different backgrounds falling in love with each other – in light of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars (2012). After briefly introducing the subgenre of YA queer romance fiction, the article adopts a popular romance studies perspective to observe how the presence of the protagonist’s terminal illness affects the narrative construction of adolescent love. In its first part, the article specifically aims at shedding light on a discursive aspect – shared by Petrus’s and Green’s narratives – centring on a notion of existential infinitude within finitude brought about by recognition. The second part of the article discusses intertextuality as a substantial formal aspect that reveals Green’s and Petrus’s different approaches to the genre they engage with – articulated in terms of the Symbolic and the Semiotic respectively – and the way they narrate and resolve the destinies of their fictional characters.

Psyche of Young Adults with Cancer in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars

Cancer is a life-threatening disease. Cancer that adults get most frequently are cancers of the skin, lungs, colon, leukemia, bone and rectum. Nowadays, children are also getting affected by cancer. Cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiotherapy have a physical impact and in turn which affects patients psychologically. This paper aims to bring out both the physical and psychological pain of young adults who are affected by different types of cancer and how they cope with the life-throbbing situation with reference to the novel ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ by John Green. This paper also tries to convey the readers about the sufferings of cancer patients and how it affects the psyche of their family members. It insists on the importance of care, love and attention to be provided to the cancer survivors, especially, Young Adults who lost their childhood while other children are enjoying their life.

ANXIETY IN JOHN GREEN’S NOVEL THE FAULT IN OUR STAR

This study aims to reveal the type of anxiety experienced by the protagonist and her defense mechanisms against the anxiety in John Green’s novel The Fault in Our Star. The causes of anxiety can be seen for the first time when Hazel is diagnosed with thyroid cancer. That situation results in a big impact on people around her, especially her parents' boyfriends. They get worried that she will hurt the people around her. This study uses the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud to explain the protagonist's type of anxiety and her defense mechanisms to get rid of the anxiety. In completing the analysis, this study applies the qualitative research method because the data collected in this study are in the form of words as quotations taken from the source. The results of this study indicate that the first protagonist's anxiety is caused by feeling guilty, overthinking, and worrying about keeping an eye out for the future. Therefore, two types of anxiety can be found in the novel. They are moral and realistic anxieties. Then, the protagonist commits two defense mechanisms to avoid her anxiety. They are rationalization and reaction formation. Finally, this data proves that the protagonist in the novel suffers from anxiety, and she tries hard to cure the disease.

Discourse Content Analysis of Illocutionary Speech Act in Pragmatic Text

<div class="WordSection1"><p>This research is motivated by the existence of illocutionary speech acts in the dialogue of Hazel's character in the film The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. This research aims to describe the types of illocutionary speech acts and the functions of illocutionary speech acts in Hazel's dialogue in John Green's The Fault in Our Stars. The methodology used in this research was a descriptive qualitative method with a library technique data search method. The data source for this research was the film The Fault in Our Stars which was released in 2014. All illocutionary utterances contained in Hazel's dialogues in the film The Fault in Our Stars were the object of this research. Data collection was done by writing and note method. The results of this research indicate that there are five types of illocutionary speech acts found in Dilan's dialogue in the film The Fault in Our Stars, namely assertive illocutionary speech acts, directive speech acts, commissive speech acts, expressive speech acts and declarative speech acts.</p></div>

Quentin’s Personality Development in John Green’s Paper Towns

The purpose of the study is to explain Quentin’s personality before meeting Margo and how it is after meeting Margo in John Green’s Paper Towns. The main character, Quentin, changes from being static person in life such as having no ambitions, being a coward person, and disciplined one before meeting Margo to being a dynamic person such being an ambitious person, being a brave person, and being an insubordinate one after meeting Margo. The kind of change in life draws the researcher’s interest to conduct the analysis in this article since human’s thought develops from time to time whose developments could do the person either harm or good. However, this personality change does the main character good. Using emotional and social determinants and close reading method, the researcher conducts a deep observation about the main character’s personality and finds its change from unambitious, coward, and discipline before meeting Margo to ambitious, intrepid and insubordinate after meeting Margo. Thus, two of the eights determinant give a significant change of life of the main character, therefore, such determinants are worth studying very deeply as such knowledge is very necessary to make people able to manage available determinants they encounter in their daily life. Finally, the finding is to develop the theory of literature in application, namely, the personality development by Hurlock.

Fracturing walls, not identities: The power of John Green's fully human representations of disability in The Fault in Our Stars

AbstractIn my paper, I argue that young‐adult author John Green recognizes the problematic ways conventional literary representations of people with disabilities contribute to the dehumanization of people with impairments. Furthermore, I suggest that Green's vibrant characters in The Fault in Our Stars and the connection readers have formed with them illuminate the power that realistic and, therefore, necessarily complex representations of characters with disabilities hold in transforming how people approach others with impairments, and, ultimately, how people with disabilities construct their own identities.

THE NOUN PHRASE AND ITS QUALITY OF CATEGORY SHIFT USED IN THE NOVEL THE FAULT IN OUR STARS BY JOHN GREEN

This research aimed to find out what types of category shifts were used in noun phrases and to find out quality assessments in the novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. The researcher used a descriptive qualitative method to analyze the noun phrases of category shift used in the novel. Data collection techniques used reading the novels, identifying the noun phrase found in both novels, finding the meaning of the words and phrases, and classifying them. Data analysis techniques used data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusions. The results showed that 102 data of category shifts were found in this research. There were 47 data for structure shift as the highest frequency and 6 data for class shift as the lowest frequency. Unit shifts found in this research were 38 data, and intra-system shifts occurred with 11 data. In the quality assessment of the category shift aspects, there were 78 data (76,5%) categorized as accurate. 20 data (19,65%) were less accurate, and 4 data (3,9%) were inaccurate. Moreover, in the acceptable aspect, the researcher found 92 data (90,2%) were acceptable, 9 data (8,8%) were less acceptable, and 1 data (0,98%) was unacceptable. The last aspect was readable; 90 data (88,2%) were readable, 9 data (8,8%) were less readable, and 3 data (2,9% ) were not readable. The conclusion of this research was the highest frequency of category shift was structure shift, and the lowest frequency was class shift. For quality assessment, the acceptable translation gained the biggest frequency, while the unacceptable got the lowest frequency in this research.

An Analysis of The Main Character’s Conflict in “The Fault in Our Stars” Novel by John Green.

An Analysis of The Main Character’s Conflict in “The Fault in Our Stars” Novel by John Green.

THE ANALYSIS OF DEATH THEME IN “THE FAULT IN OUR STAR” STORY BY JOHN GREEN

This research aimed to reveal the phenomenon of death in literary work. The theme of death is sometimes ignored by literary critics because it is often seen as a spice in the story. In fact, the narrative of death has a very significant that determines the plot in the story. Ross (2009) a French psychologist put forward the theoretical concept of this phenomenon with the theory of death and dying. Psychologically, there are several stages that are experienced by people who are facing terminal illness or people who are left behind in the face of death. Departing from several conceptual deaths, the researchers determined the research data source in the form of a story by John Green entitled "The Fault in Our Stars". This phenomenal story is very well known among teenagers and has even been encrypted in the form of a movie. This story received various awards both in the form of a printed narrative and after being filmed. The story of this story is dominated by teenage romance and the struggle with cancer. However, it is interesting to study how the attitude of the people around them, including the main characters in dealing with death. By using Kubler Ross theory, there are two variables that would be found. First, the phenomenon of death and dying as the general perception in dealing with death and dying reflected in the story The Fault in Our Stars . Second, the psychological stages experienced by the character in facing death in the story.

Fighting Against the Fate in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars

The paper is about the existential battle of Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars. They show their optimistic behavior against pessimistic situation. There is the feeling of confidence and sense of optimism in the characters against the dark situation of their lives. The main focus of this study is to explore how the characters in the novel embrace sense of optimism despite their terminal illness. In doing so this paper applies, Jean Paul Sartre’s theory of existentialism as the tool of analyses. It mainly revolves around how Hazel chooses life than death despite adverse situation to assert her existence illness.

Van Houlten’s Impoliteness in John Green’s Novel “The Fault in our Stars”

Impoliteness is an act that is rejected and refused in the conventions of any society. However, it is utilized occasionally for various hidden motives and not only as an act of threatening others’ faces. This act is ascertained to be systematic according to Culpeper’s ‘Anatomy of impoliteness which is the adopted model in the present study. This model is applied to demonstrate the strategies that John Green adopts to demonstrate Van Houlten’s character that acts impolitely Green’s novel “The Fault in our Stars. The present study intends to reveal the types of impolite strategies that the writer utilizes to indicate this act of impoliteness and it also intend to reveal that impoliteness is a means to express grief, anger, and despair of life when losing our beloved.

An Analysis of Compound Words in The Novel "The Fault In Our Stars"

<p>This study discusses compound words in English novels and aims to find out what types of compound words and which types of compound words are used the most in the novel. The method used in this research is descriptive analysis with a qualitative approach (Miles, Huberman & Saldana, 2018). Data collection used documentation which the source is from a novel by John Green entitled The Fault in Our Stars. Data analysis was based on Yule (2016). The results obtained that there are 207 data consisting of two types of compound words, namely endocentric with 152 data (73%) and exocentric with 55 data (27%) which are formed from the word compound nouns (N+N, A+N, V+N, P+N), compound adjectives formed from (A+A. N+A, V+A), and compound verbs (N+V, A+V, V +V). The type of compound that is most widely used in the novel is the endocentric compound which has the highest percentage.</p><p> </p>