“I washed my hands, put on a new Band-Aid , but now I was being pulled all the way down. I opened the medicine cabinet quietly. Took out the aloe-scented hand sanitizer. I took a gulp, then another. Felt dizzy. You can’t do this. This stuff’s pure alcohol.”,which was located on page 210. When someone has a mental illness they will try to find the strength to resist it. John Green and Robert Longley both wrote two different pieces ,but also they compare in many different ways. Although John Green book, Turtles all the way down, is a book that is related to mental illness and Robert Longley poem, Strength Within, was based off his friend father's cancer ,but they both have the same meaning behind them. Both Green and …show more content…
In Greens novel he shows the message of the writing by using dialogue that Aza is thinking. Green uses the dialogue to prove that aza is trying to fight her thoughts. This is one way Green revealed the theme, “But that stuff has alcohol in it that my damaged liver will have to process.DO YOU WANT TO DIE OF C.DIFF no but this is not rational.”,which was located on page 228. In Longley poem he reveals the theme of the poem by using metaphors. Longley also uses metaphors to show how challenges in life can be overcome because it happened in his own life. One way he show the theme with metaphors is in this line, “And you will find new purpose / And ways to grow / These are the seeds I’ve planted.” That was an example because Longley was relating how people can overcome things to seeds that he has …show more content…
John Green's book relates to the theme ,strength comes within, as a whole by explaining Aza life crisis and how she wants to overcome her mental illness ,but it is really hard for her to fight the feeling that is bacteria in her body. In Robert Longley poem relates to the theme because Longley used the strength he had in within him when he had a crisis with close friends. Both the authors of the literature pieces made very relatable topics even though they are both based on very different topics ,but relate to each other in a lot of ways. When I was reading both of the writings, I could predict that they were going to end very well and that it seemed like both authors made these two pieces of literature together at the same time ,but they didn’t. John Green wrote his book recently, October 10, 2017 and Robert Longley wrote Strength Within a couple of years before. In a couple years two authors could still write about the same subject that strength comes within people. The significance of John Green writing his book showed people that no matter what happens people just need to try really hard to overcome it. The value of Robert Longley poem showed others that they can get over their challenges because Longley got over an