The young adult literature novel, Looking for Alaska by John Green is about a teenager named Miles Halter that gets sent away to a boarding school for his junior year. He uses Francois Rabelais last words; "I go to seek a Great Perhaps" to explain to his parents why he is leaving. Although it’s not what he expected, there he met a math genius roommate Chip (The Colonel). He receives a nickname given by Chip: “Pudge” ironically as Miles is the opposite of a pudgy boy. Through Chip, he meets a girl named Alaska Young. He definitely didn’t predict that a girl he recently meets can change his life forever. The book explores their group antics, which Miles participates in to gain new friends being the usual 'new kid outcast'. After a summer of boarding school Miles, a shy kid turns into a mischievous student. With his group of friends they influence him to smoke and wreak havoc in a good natured environment. Through friendship, rivalries, relationships, and death Pudge looks through the cloudy days to focus on finding his ‘Great Perhaps’. Looking for Alaska was set at Culver C...
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In Fish written by Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen we find a woman who moved to Seattle from Southern California with her husband her two children. This woman Mary Jane Ramirez had everything going for her she was a happy person who had a happy life her family their relationship couldn't get any better. They both had good jobs, jobs that they enjoyed. Then one day, twelve months after they had moved to Seattle Dan her husband was rushed to the hospital with a burst aneurysm he then died. After that incident everything changed for Mary Jane especially when she took an offer to work on the third floor for First Guarantee Financial.
Looking for Alaska starts off with Miles Halter leaving his home town in Florida in search for the Great Perhaps (the last words of Francois Rabelais) at Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama; the same boarding school his father had attended when he was younger. At the beginning of the book Miles is seen as a bit of an outcast with little friends and a weird habit of memorizing people’s last words.
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One main event that made this book feel real was when Keiko & Henry went to the Black Elks Club. This event was so insightful for how Japanese lived back in 1942. Keiko and Henry went to a bar to see their friend Sheldon, play his saxophone. While the band was in between sets Sheldon came to talk to Henry, who was practically his big brother, Sheldon told him he should head home as it was becoming dark. When leaving Keiko and Henry were stopped by the FBI and heard a gun being cocked. The FBI took them back into the club and the FBI started hand cuffing all Japanese. Keiko, being Japanese, stood there in awe, as she did not know what to do. After six patrons were arrested Keiko spoke, " 'What's going to happen to them?' Keiko asked, the sound of concern in her small voice. "They can get the death penalty if they're found guilty of treason, but they'll probably just spend a few years in a nice jail cell" (59 Ford). These innocent people were perceived to be spies just because of their ancestry. This event in the novel made it feel astonishingly realistic.
I am positively in love with books. I love the feeling that I am having a conversation with the author. One of my favorite books, Looking for Alaska by John Green, generates that emotion every time I open it. Its ambiguous nature allows me to discover something new each time, like I am uncovering a new layer of a dear friend with every turn of the page.
Looking for Alaska is told from the perspective of Miles, and his experience. This leads a reader to hypothesize that John Green wrote this book based on personal experiences, to capture experiences of his youth, and conveyed through the eyes of Miles Pudge Halter.
John Green’s book, Looking for Alaska, is a thrilling and heartening novel that will keep you engrossed in the book and will never let you put the book down. It is a book about an righteous and a wonderful tale of how teens survive despite having difficult issues in their own lives and relate to other people. The book is on the story of Miles Halter, a teen who has a great passion with people’s famous last words. He is a teen who does not have many friends, so he makes a decision to go to a boarding school named Culver Creek in Alabama. He makes many friends, rivals and most of all he realizes who he is. In Culver Creek, he meets his roommate Chip Martin and Chip’s friends Takumi Hikohito, Lara Buterskaya, and Alaska Young. All of them including Miles, become close friends. While Miles is building friendship with everyone, he starts to develop a huge crush on Alaska, though Alaska has a boyfriend who is Jake. In the book, situations become different, tensions rise and everyone gets to learn themselves in a variety of ways in the end.The use of language by Green makes the book more re...
Teenage Wasteland by Anne Tyler is about the dysfunctional relationship of Daisy Coble, her troubled son, Donny, and his tutor, Cal Beadle. Instead of helping Donny with his academic career like Daisy hoped, Cal only taught Donny to disobey authority and rebel against people “with power”. In the end, Donny is expelled from his private school and is sent to public school, and then he just suddenly abandons his old home. Nobody knows where he went or why he even ran away from home.
When P.K. arrives at boarding school he encounters many conflicts. Externally, he is faced with a prejudice against his British origin while internally he has to cope with the loss of all his loved ones.
“Yeah,” I told him too quiet to hear. BANG!!!!! Show me how you are shooting Ouch I thought, my ear hurts. I could see everything as it had turned gray. I could barely hear anything. The bear ran off toward the west to our marsh, ‘the swamp’. Everything then got silent.
Looking For Alaska is a new, popular book that has been read and debated by many. Throughout the country, the novel has been put on many banned book lists. The book contains rebellion, drugs, tobacco, and sex, all of which are reasons why the book is banned. Looking For Alaska provides more to young readers than an idea of rebellion. In a world religions class, the main characters, Pudge and Alaska, are given a debatable essay question. They are asked “What is the meaning of life?” The heavy question affects the characters and their mindset throughout the book. Alaska answers the question by saying that “life is a labyrinth of suffering”; her mindset ends up coinciding with sudden death. Pudge uses the essay question to comfort himself through
Looking For Alaska, by John Green, is a creative literary work detailing the issues of love and loss in teenage life. The book’s unique point of view, dialogue, and themes help to make it an excellent work that is well-worth the read. While many other examples of literature include these elements, Looking For Alaska does it a little differently, and for the better. This is an excellent novel, and its unique elements only add to the story.
Looking for Alaska is a book written by John Green. The main theme of the book is “Looking for the Great Perhaps.” In the first three chapters of the book, the main characters, Miles “Pudge” Halter, Chip “Colonel” Martin, and Alaska Young are introduced. Looking for Alaska is a story about a guy named Miles Halter who recently switched to boarding school in Alabama in order to find out who he really is as a person. At the boarding school, Miles becomes very close friends with his roommate, The Colonel, and a girl named Alaska Young.
"Ok class. Now that we have taken role, lets talk about our next reading assignment. We will be reading Holes by Louis Sachar. This book is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats who is falsely accused of steeling a pair of sneakers and is sent to a boy's juvenile detention camp for his punishment. This camp is called Camp Greenlake, which is ironic because there is not a lake in sight and nothing is green. There is a vast desert where everyday John! Will you please turn around in your seat and pay attention! Where was I? Oh yes, there is a vast desert where everyday the boys in the camp dig, John! Please come sit in the front of the class. Melissa and Susan please quit talking!'