Turtles all the way down by John Green

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Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
ESSAY OUTLINE
Introduction
There is a massive gap between the financial status of the poor and the rich in the society. However, the rich are more susceptible to making the wrong choice that can destroy their lives and that of their families.
Thesis statement: Everyone, whether wealthy or poor, is susceptible to life problems and acquiring wealth tends to blind people from selecting the right choices in life.
A wealthy background does not guarantee a life without problems
Davis falls a victim of his father lousy reputation
Davis father’s powerful status in the society intimidates most of Davis peers
Davis uncertain future
Wealthy people are on many occasions unable to make right decisions
Mr. Pickett does not leave any of his money to his children before he disappears
Mr. Pickett wealth makes him spend very little time with his family and children
Mr. Pickett’s decision to get involved with criminal activities that made him run away is also another wrong decision.
Poor people who suddenly get their hands on a tremendous amount of money tend to be susceptible to making wrong choices
Aza saves the money to spend it on college use it seek better education out of state
Daisy spends the money on things that will elevate his life to that of Aza
Conclusion
Green’s outlines the fact that money still does not guarantee one a life without ups and downs. Despite the ability of wealth making one powerful, it blinds one from making right decisions.

There is a massive gap between the financial status of the poor and the rich in the society. However, the rich are more susceptible to making the wrong choice that can destroy their lives and that of their families. Furthermore, having wealth does not guarantee one an experience without problems. Worth states that having a lot of money can in the most case lead one to make wrong choices. In the novel Turtles All the Way Down, Green creates characters with different financial backgrounds as a result generating a typical representation of the society people lives in. Davis’s family is exceptionally wealthy more than any other family in the nation. According to Green (4), the family owns a golf course, has a massive art gallery and has invested an enormous sum of money in the constructions of an onsite sanctuary for Tuatara, also described as Mr. Pickett’s pet. On the other hand, Mom and Aza are from a middle-class background as Aza’s mom is stated in the novel as a high school teacher and Aza owns a car. Lastly, Daisy’s family represents the poor in the society as she must work at her young age to raise enough money to fund most of her basic needs. She does not own a computer, and she must share a bedroom with her younger sister as she struggles to survive and seek education. Everyone, whether wealthy or poor, is susceptible to life problems and acquiring wealth tends to blind people from selecting the right choices in life.
Possessing vast amount of money or originating from a wealthy background does not guarantee a life without problems. In several cases, rich people with bad reputation tend to have more problems in the society as they battle with the fact that everyone hates them, and few people want to associate with them. In the novel, Davis falls a victim of his father’s lousy reputation. Green (4) states that Davis father, Davis Pickett Sr., is categorized among the most powerful and influential people in Indianapolis, however, he is still not liked by many in his society. As a result, Davis is continuously faced with the challenge of making friends in school as people within his age bracket prefer not being associated with him due to her father’s bad reputations. Moreover, his father’s powerful status in the society intimidates most of Davis peers and make them afraid to associate with him in school. He consistently experiences a hard time identifying who his real friends are in his circles of friends as he assumes that they are with him because of his father’s wealth. According to Green, Davis ability to afford luxurious property such as expensive cars and a guarantee to proceed to a prestigious college after high school as perceived by most people is not accurate. His future is uncertain as her father decides not to spare money aside for them before he disappeared. Therefore, Davis is faced with problems other people from the middle and low class in the society goes through despite having a family that is extremely wealthy.
Furthermore, despite having wealth and being influential, wealthy people or people in possession of a considerable amount of money are on many occasions unable to make right decisions. In the novel, Green states that Davis’s father Mr. Pickett makes several wrong choices from the society’s point of view. He does not leave any of his money to his children before he disappears and instead, he invests it all in his obsession to research on factors that make a lizard-like have a lifespan of 150 years. Also, all his wealth seems to drive him away from his children as he decides to spend most of his time attending to his job rather than spending it with his children. According to Green (9), Davis describes his father to his friends as someone who was always unavailable and never showed any love and affection to her and her brother Noah. Lastly, Mr. Pickett’s decision to get involved with criminal activities that made him run away is also another wrong decision. In this case, he does not consider the fact that he has children who are young and in need of his love and affection in addition to him being a father to them. Mr. Pickett actions, therefore, show that despite having wealth and power, wealthy people tend to make wrong choices in their life most of which are influenced by there wealthy status.
Moreover, people who were initially poor and suddenly get their hands on a tremendous amount of money tend to be susceptible to making wrong choices. Rutherford (4) argues that it is common for poor people who receive vast amounts of money suddenly engage with huge expenditures and every bit of the money to elevate their life to that of the rich people in their community. As a result, they hardly invest nor put the money into profitable activities that will both improve their standard of living and maintain it for years to come. In the novel, Aza and Daisy land themselves a good fortune after Davis pays them $100,000 to keep them silent from reporting the information they have about his father disappearance. The girls first agreed to divide the money evenly but how they both use it later differed significantly. Aza, who in this case makes correct use of the money, she saves the money to spend it on college and probably in future use it to go and get a better education out of state. In this case, the sudden wealth still does not make her feel the compulsion to spend all the money she had in raising her standards of living. Instead, Aza decides on using the money in ways that she would benefit in future and forever improve her standard of life. Daisy, on the other hand, directs the money to things that will elevate his life to that of Aza. She goes ahead to purchase a new car and a laptop, two properties that she can currently still survive without instead of making better use of the money in things such as investing it in her college education. Worst of all, Daisy decides to quit her job at Chuck E. Cheese, a source of income that had so far generated funds for herself and her sibling’s needs. With her rate of expenditure on expensive property, there is a likelihood that the money she has will be depleted before she completes high school. As a result, she will return to being poor and unable to maintain some of the things such as her new car. In this case, Daisy should have followed Aza’s decision and saved most of the money for her college education instead of spending it on unnecessary, expensive things. Daisy actions, in this case, prove that indeed wealth has a considerable influence on people decision and tend to drive people into making wrong choices.
In conclusion, instead of Green’s novel stating the advantages of having wealth and its influence in making right life choices, it outlines the fact that money still does not guarantee one a life without ups and downs. Despite the ability of wealth making one powerful, it blinds one from making right decisions. Even though Davis’s father was wealthy and powerful, he made wrong choices and subjects himself and his family to a series of life problems. Also, access to a colossal fortune blinds Daisy from making the right decisions that would enable her to make profitable use of her wealth. Therefore, wealth does not assure one a comfortable life without problems and can influence people to make wrong choices.

Works Cited
Green, John. Turtles all the way down. Dutton Books, 2017.
Rutherford, Stuart. The poor and their money. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, (2000): 3-4.
Worth, Tammy. “Too many choices can tax the brain, research shows.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2009, articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/16/health/he-choices16.

Theme
Privilege and wealth
The novel Turtles All the Way explores the lives of people with different financial backgrounds. In the book, Davis’s family is considered as the wealthiest in couyn6try with his father owning several collections of art, a golf course and an onsite sanctuary (Green 4). Secondly, there is the middle class represented by Aza and Mom who according to the novels Mom is a teacher while Aza is a student already own a car at her young age. Lastly is the poor represented by Daisy Who Green describes as being unable to meet all her basic needs and if forced to find work at Chuck E. Cheese’s store to raise funds for her education. Back at her home, she does not have a bed to herself, and she is forcing to share with her sister in addition to lacking a personal computer. Davis and Aza are described by Greek to come from families with a lot of privileges and assured to have a college education and better future. On the other hand, Daisy struggles a lot to acquire things that will enable her to live a comfortable life and does not have the privilege to use a computer in typing her Chewbacca fanfiction.
Symbolism
Iron Man
In the novel, Davis speaks to Aza about his Iron Man figure that he has had since his childhood. In this case, the Iron Man symbolizes how Davis sees herself among the rest of his peers as he refers to his father’s wealth. In the fiction movie Iron Man, the character is display as one with power, money, and privilege and strong when dressing up in the Iron Man suit. The society views Davis the same way as they consider him as someone with power and access to privileges because of her family’s wealth. This is not the case to Davis as he feels less powerful opposite to his Iron Man symbol since his father does not include him in his will and denies him the power and privileges that come to their family wealth (Green 6).
Bacteria
In the novel, Aza talks about how the human body is filled with bacteria. She approximates the of bacteria to around 50% of human being body mass (Green 1). Her OCD continually disturbs her and forces her to maintain a high level of hygiene and bacteria-free. According to Aza, bacteria are controlling, malicious and invasive. The author uses the symbol bacteria to explain how Aza find her identity not being hers but belong to some other entity. In this case, bacterial represents a real split in her personality.

Works Cited
Green, John. Turtles all the way down. Dutton Books, (2017): 1-63.