Looking for Alaska “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. (pg.88)” said Miles in the book Looking for Alaska. What Miles then realized was he was falling in love with his new friend Alaska. Alaska Young is a gorgeous but screwed up girl. Her looks indicate that she has everything together but her problems tell otherwise. Chip, or as he wishes to be called ‘Colonel’ is Alaska’s boyfriend. His good looks are deceiving; his arrogance and his drinking make him less of a person than he seems to be. Unfortunately the two, Miles and Chip end up as roommates at Culver Creek and both fall in love with Alaska. Before Alaska can choose, a life changing …show more content…
The high school life was not for Miles. Miles wasn’t popular and didn’t have many friends. Immediately he was taken in by his roommate Chip Martin, At Culver Creek School he begins to understand how high schools function and also meets the beautiful girl, Alaska. As more and more days pass at Culver Creek, Miles finds himself making new friends, being adventurous, stepping out of his comfort zone and trying new things. In the time that Miles spent at Culver Creek he often saw the romance that went on between his peers. Chip and Alaska’s on-and-off relationship, and his own awkward experience with Lara Buterskaya. Finally, the relationship he has with Alaska develops from friendship to love. When Miles and Alaska kiss, their relationship becomes awkward. Alaska’s death caused Miles to realize that he loved Alaska for making his life better and for the special times they shared. Clever, beautiful, screwed up, and smart are all words that describe Alaska perfectly. Alaska’s loves clever pranks and ideas but also faces tremendous guilt from her mother’s death. She loves wine, adventures, and teasing the wealthy students. Chip Martin is a genius despite his sometimes rude attitude. He is quite good with his words and also loves his pranks. Miles Halter, the new junior at Culver Creek is a tall and scrawny teenager, looking for a new start. This new start he found at Culver …show more content…
Alaska’s mother died. After she had died, Alaska took in guilt and as quoted in the book Looking for Alaska “Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.” The author, John Green made it clear that Alaska did not want to be alive. Further into the novel, Alaska ends up taking her life by driving drunk. The accident changed the lives of Chip and Miles drastically. “Sara slammed the door so hard that a sizable biography of Leo Tolstoy fell off my bookshelf and landed with a thud on our checkered floor like an echo of the slamming door. (pg. 36)”. As Green describes how the book fell, it made the story come to life. Not only describing what the floor looked like, it described how it sounded like a door was slamming shut and he made the event seem so real. “Broken glass glittered in the blare of the sun like the road was wearing jewelry. (pg.213)” this is an excellent example of personification, Green made it sound like the road was actually wearing a shiny piece of jewelry. Some could say that Looking for Alaska is book that is hard to get into, but once the novel is started, it is hard to put down. The antics of Miles and his friends pranking people are amusing. Alaska was a fun creative character that was easy to fall in love with. The bonding after Alaska’s death between Chip and Miles is touching. This bonding leads to a friendship that will prove the test of time. John Green makes this novel
Miles Pruitt is the center of this story; he is going through life in attempt to avoid the hardships it throws at him. He has to cope with the misfortunes that come with love, and by the end of the story, Miles will finally come to realize that his decisions to go through life untouched will not pay off.
In John Krakauer’s novel Into The Wild, the reader follows the life of a young man who, upon learning of his father’s infidelity and bigamy, seems to go off the deep end, isolating himself by traveling into the wild country of Alaska, unprepared for survival, where he died of starvation at 67 pounds.
Today I am going to be explaining how the three different point of views or P.O.V the narrators in three different stories all about unfairness to the miners during the gold rush or the late eight-teen-hundreds though. Mainly I'm going to be mentioning the character's narrators background, family, and their opinions. For opinions I'm going to be talking about if they thought the rules where to strict or just right.
The authors of “Klondike Gold Rush” by Gordon Stables and A Woman Who Went to Alaska by Meg Kellogg Sullivan are discussing the same topic but are using different points of view. Each person’s point of view shapes the reader’s understanding of the miners’ lives.
The characters in Empire Falls go through many changes throughout the novel. By the end of the novel Miles is changed drastically. He begins the novel as a slow moving, trusting, somewhat depressed individual. By the end of the novel, Miles has achieved an epiphany. No longer letting the world step on his dreams, Miles goes after with a roar the dreams and desires that have lain dormant for twenty years. His ex-wife, Janine, also comes to realize that the dreams she thought she had are not necessarily what she wants after all. Janine comes to accept herself for Janine, instead of flailing around wildly trying to find herself in outward appearances. Tick has learned a lesson that we all come to at some point in our lives, that people are not always good and there is danger in the world.
Although Alaska has a boyfriend, Pudge remains wanting her as a friend. Pudge even stayed home from Thanksgiving to be with Alaska. During that time, they watch porn, and sneak into other people’s rooms. They eventually went and ate dinner at the Colonel's house. One day they were playing truth or dare and Pudge had to kiss Lara, although that is not who he wanted to kiss, it was his first kiss. Later in the year he soon gets to kiss Alaska. These times with Alaska and the romance involved was part of “the Great Perhaps” It symbolizes that these times with Alaska were important and meant so much to Pudge. He never thought that one day his happiness with Alaska would be taken
Alaska did not really have a name until she was seven years old, when she chose the name “Alaska.” She chose it because when she saw it on the globe, she decided she wanted to be like it when she grew up; big and far away from her home. She had a tragic childhood in which she felt overlooked. Taking “Alaska” as her name seemed like a way for her to redeem herself and turn her life around, shaping it around the meaning behind her name.
...s, the men of the wild frontier” (Wayne 1). This drive, this manifest destiny, “the great pressure of people moving always to new frontiers, in search of new lands, new power, the full freedom of a virgin world, has ruled our course and formed our polices lake a Fate,” (Weinberg 1) is what compelled Jon and Chris to go against the grain of society and follow their dreams. With fewer and fewer “New Frontiers” these two were forced to resort to one of the last unconquered regions of the world, Alaska. It was there that they faced their fears and overcame hardships to succeed.
Chris McCandless was still just a young man when he decided to drastically alter his life through the form of a child’s foolishness. However, Chris had not known at the time just how powerful his testimony against his father’s authority, society, or maybe even his own lifestyle was going to be revolutionary throughout not only Alaska,not even the lower 48, but the world. The story of Chris McCandless is a much talked about debate on topics of safety and preparedness in the wild, these things forever associated with the boy who was a little too eager for a death wish. Today, Chris is remember as a fool or a hero. The fool, a boy who allowed himself to be drowned in a fictional world inspired by his readings,dying because he ignored he was just a normal human being or the hero who set out to become something more.
Into the Wild, written by Jon Krakauer, is the story of a young man named Christopher Johnson McCandless who ventured off to Alaska and tried to survive in the wild. McCandless grew up in Annandale, Virginia where he attended school and made very good grades, rarely bringing home anything below an A. His father, Walt worked for NASA for a little while, before starting his own business with Chris’s mother, Billie, out of their own home. They worked hard and for long hours to get the business up and running and it finally paid off. The McCandless family was wealthy, but had many emotional problems. After graduating from Emory University in 1990, Chris McCandless donated twenty-four thousand dollars from his savings account to charity, changed his name to Alexander Supertramp, and then disappeared. This book tells the story of his life and travels. Some critics say that Chris McCandless was a very admirable person. He was a brave man that followed his dreams. However, given all of his flaws, attitudes, and actions, he is un-admirable. McCandless walked into the wild very unprepared and stubborn. He also treated his family poorly as well as anyone who got emotionally close to him. Chris was additionally too impressionable in a way that he admired authors along with the books they wrote, and tried to imitate them. He was very rebellious in his actions as well, and did not try to change the world or help others.
Into the Wild, written by John Krakauer tells of a young man named Chris McCandless who 1deserted his college degree and all his worldly possessions in favor of a primitive transient life in the wilderness. Krakauer first told the story of Chris in an article in Outside Magazine, but went on to write a thorough book, which encompasses his life in the hopes to explain what caused him to venture off alone into the wild. McCandless’ story soon became a national phenomenon, and had many people questioning why a “young man from a well-to-do East Coast family [would] hitchhike to Alaska” (Krakauer i). Chris comes from an affluent household and has parents that strived to create a desirable life for him and his sister. As Chris grows up, he becomes more and more disturbed by society’s ideals and the control they have on everyday life. He made a point of spiting his parents and the lifestyle they lived. This sense of unhappiness continues to build until after Chris has graduated college and decided to leave everything behind for the Alaskan wilderness. Knowing very little about how to survive in the wild, Chris ventures off on his adventure in a state of naïveté. It is obvious that he possessed monumental potential that was wasted on romanticized ideals and a lack of wisdom. Christopher McCandless is a unique and talented young man, but his selfish and ultimately complacent attitude towards life and his successes led to his demise.
Into the wild is a non-fiction book which expanded from the nine-thousand-word article by Jon Krakauer. This article ran in the January 1993 issue of the magazine Outside. Jon Krakauer was very much drawn toward the tale of McCandless and decided to write his story. He spent more than a year tracking down the details of the boy’s tramp. Then he used matter-of-fact tones to narrate what he chased on the path about the boy. The framework presented in this book can be separated into three parts: (1) retracing, including the interview with most of the important people who once kept company with Chris; (2) wildness, presenting mails generated from readers and several idealists that were in the similar situation with Chris; (3) affection, including the memory of parents, sister and friends.
...pposed to kiss Mary Elizabeth but he didn't so she broke up with Charlie) leaving him back at the start, with no friends. This was a bad time because Charlie begins to start going “bad” again which means he starts to have flashbacks, and he gets really depressed. He saves Patrick from a fight at school which is kind of like a forgiveness from his friends to let him hang out and talk to them again. Charlie helps Sam get into a college and soon all of his friends leave to go to college. He gets bad again and ends up going to the hospital. When Sam and Patrick come over to Charlie's house, this is like closure to Charlie and they drive through the tunnel for the closing page. I think that the author did a very good job in choosing when the events in the book would happen. It seemed like a teenagers life and he changed it up some so that the reader wouldn't get so bored.
No cigarettes.” (Green 10 pdf) Miles’ father warned him very heavily about not doing drugs, however, he did drugs in high school before. When Miles goes to high school, he gets lost in the world of peer pressure and he ends up doing drugs, drinking alcohol and smoking. In the real world, many high school students tend to fall into the traps of peer pressure and end up drinking and doing drugs illegally. This story captures the real life perspective of high school with peer pressure, stress and troubles, instead of the fake, “all smiles” perspective of high school that some movies, such as High School Musical, portray.
Sam physically exposes Charlie to new experiences that change him into a more confident person. At the start of the school year Charlie is an anti-social and introverted freshman who is reluctant and unsure of himself. He enters high school with no friends, but soon becomes friends with a small group of seniors, most importantly Sam, that influence him to become a stronger individual. Sam introduces him to many new things that he never would have experienced before. For example, drugs, alcohol, love, sexuality, parties and relationships change Charlie into an more confident person by breaking him out if his comfort zone. Sam plays a huge role in his development from being easily influenced to making decisions for himself. Sam motivates him to explore a new side of life and he realizes that life needs to be lived and not watched. Charlie grows from being someone who sits by and watches life to a person who fully participates in life. Charlie begins to develop and mature as his character is faced with unfamiliar situations that take him out of his s...