What Does John Green Represent In The Novel Looking For Alaska

In Looking For Alaska, John Green portraits his teen characters in an unrealistic fashion compared to teens today. Teens today are not as rebellious, and disobedient as John Green portrayed them in his book Looking For Alaska. Most teens today do not drink, smoke, and break the rules as the characters in the book. Realistically some teens do but a vast majority of the teens do not act out like the teens in his book.
All throughout the novel John Green writes about the students of Culver Creek mostly Miles, Chip, Alaska and some additional chapters drinking. In today's society some high school students do go out and drink at parties but they do not drink as often as the chapters do. The major event in the novel when Alaska died is suspected to be due to the fact that she was intoxicated. “She hit the cruiser without ever swerving. I believe she must

The novel does talk about smoking marijuana when John Green introduces Hank Walston and when the students talk about why Marya got expelled. Mostly throughout the novel the main characters are always smoking cigarettes. “I fished a five out of my pocket, and Alaska handed me a pack of twenty Marlboro Lights”(Green 55). At the beginning of the novel Miles doesn't smoke at all, but as the story progresses he starts to smoke more and more often just like the rest of his friends. Even the cover of the novel portraits what seems to be smoke from a cigarette,but it doesn't show the cigarette but it is pretty much implied. Teens today may smoke once in awhile because of the complications on getting them and due to the fact that they are in high schools and it is prohibited to smoke while at school and it is enforced which makes its hard for them to smoke as often. The students at Culver Creek have more freedom to smoke because it is and open environment that it isn't enforced as much as it would be at a