of man’s desire to understand.” John Green’s “Looking For Alaska” follows a teen named Miles who experiences changes in his life since coming to a boarding school. At first, Miles does not know anyone there, but he meets new friends and comes across many changes that finally understand who he is. “Looking For Alaska” consists of a big mystery which will bring Miles closer to finally finding out what his “Great Perhaps” is. Green’s “Looking For Alaska” reveals that we accept what the answer is in
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
The novel I chose to study, John Green’s Looking for Alaska, is a young adult fiction and realistic fiction novel. Looking for Alaska is considered a young adult fiction and realistic fiction novel because it is written in the perspective of a teenager and it effectively portrays teenage emotions and thoughts. Also, it uses language and topics that young adults would understand and find easy and fun to read. It is realistic fiction because it tells a story set in a present time frame, and it shares
John Green’s novel Looking for Alaska tells the story of Miles Halter, a shy teenager who transfers to Culver Creek Boarding School for his junior year of high school, in search of the “Great Perhaps”. His roommate, Chip Martin, “The Colonel” takes Miles under his wing and nicknames him Pudge. Miles introduces him to the erratic lifestyle of smoking, drinking, pranks, and Alaska Young. Alaska Young is, witty, moody, beautiful, and self-destructive, and Pudge is attracted to her. When a few of
The novel Looking For Alaska, by John Green, is a story of joy, love and sorrow through the relationship between the two protagonists, the style of writing the author uses, and finally the scene of how Dr.Hyde teaches the inevitable. Pudge, the protagonist is the new kid at Culver Creek boarding school and through his new roommate ‘The Colonel’(Chip) he is introduced to Alaska Young. Ms. Young is no ordinary person to Pudge, in fact to him she is extraordinary, and like no one he has ever met. Pudge
Looking for Alaska 1.) Discuss a major conflict in the text. -One night, Alaska Young (the protagonist) becomes very depressed due to her forgetting that it was the anniversary of her mother’s death. She decides to leave campus in the middle of the night. To make matters worse, she has been drinking alcohol beforehand. This results to her dying in a terrible car crash. The book centers around her, before and after the crash. 2.) Explain the significance of the book’s title. -Following Alaska’s
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
boring. In Looking for Alaska, by John Green, Miles meets several new people including his roommate Chip Martin (A.K.A. The Colonel), Takumi Hikohito, Lara Buterskaya, and Alaska Young. Intoxicated with Alaska’s beauty, intelligence, and wild heart, Miles sets off on a wild adventure called life, until something tragic happens. The demise of their beloved friend, Alaska, devastated them. Throughout the novel characters are on a search for identity, love, and forgiveness. In the book, Looking for Alaska
and who he really is, looking for The Great Perhaps. In the before section of the book, he is Miles. He is friendless and unhappy until Culver Creek where he becomes Pudge. Then he works harder and harder to discover who this new found Pudge is. During the after section when Alaska dies, he realizes the who and what Pudge is. He discovers the Great Perhaps and moves onward into his new life. So through the whole book he isn't just looking for The Great Perhaps, he is looking for his self identity
in life? Like you’re stuck in this world surrounded by people, standing out, but never truly noticed, feeling like the one thing you screwed up has pulled you down with a chain for the rest of your continuing life? In the book, Looking For Alaska, Miles Halter is looking for his place in life. Such as, where he belongs, and what his purpose is. He made a decision to move to a new school, Culver Creek, to start a new year. He quotes “ ...‘I go to seek a Great Perhaps.’ That 's why I’m going. So I
Green is another author who uses fictitious writing to write about their views or opinions through their characters. Like Rowling, many events in his life have had an immense influence on his writing. Like his characters in his highly successful Looking for Alaska, Green is “an Alabama boarding school alum himself” (Barkdoll 67). Green, who was a poor—yet pretentious—student, had a “strong desire to break the rules” during his boarding school days (Barkdoll 68). Though he was rebellious in school, he
In a world seemingly good to dreamers, there comes a time when reality must be found. Alaska Young, a young girl in the fiction novel Looking For Alaska by John Green, is one of those dreamers who has also found a dark reality. The book is narrated by Miles “Pudge” Halter, a teenager who moves from a public school in Florida to a boarding school in Alabama. Towards the beginning of the book, Miles explains that he is in search for a Great Perhaps, as spoken about in the poet Francois Rabelais’s last
In Looking for Alaska by John Green, the reoccurring theme is the labyrinth. Alaska Young constantly refers to the labyrinth as her maze of suffering. On a dreary afternoon, Miles and Alaska sat in the student lounge relaxing and Miles asks Alaska to explain the origin of her name. This leads to a deep conversation about Alaska’s family and her ambitions for life after Culver Creek. As Miles and Alaska talk, Miles leans in to kiss Alaska and at first it seems as if Alaska is leaning in too. When
In the book “Looking For Alaska,” I guess you can say, everyone is a little messed up in their own way. There are two major characters, one named Miles “Pudge” Halter. Now, Miles is a very intriguing character, he starts of as an antisocial person who remembers the last words of people. He's not very out going and he goes to “seek a great perhaps,” (8) which were the last words of a Francois Rabelais, who was a poet. He is not your average guy, not the guy a girl would fall in love with right away
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 a boarding in 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,
completely changes. In Looking for Alaska by John Green, Alaska, Pudge and The Colonel go through changes all throughout the book, but nothing can prepare them for the death of their dear friend Alaska. From a very young age, Alaska had to deal with her mother's death, which changed her life dramatically. The death of her mother did not hinder her love for boys and for books. She found a quote that changed her life in a book “How to escape the labyrinth?”, Pudge and Alaska friendship was based on
between Alaska and himself. Pudge’s fascination with Alaska is that she is so different from him. In his eyes, she takes him away from his ordinary life and brings him closer to the unknown. In many ways, Pudge’s fascination prevents him from seeing their similarities and truly enjoying the time he spends with Alaska. “I know so many last words. But I will never know hers” (142). This quote is my personal favorite. Miles is known so well because he always remembers everyone's last words. He even
Looking for Alaska is a young adult book written by, John Green. Looking for Alaska tells a story about a boy named “Miles” who also goes by the name of “Pudge.” Where he navigates through complex life situations of love, friendship, and death. The story takes place at a boarding school in Alabama, called “Culver Creek Preparatory High School.” The controversy in this book is whether Alaska killed herself or was her death an accident. Alaska’s death was a suicide because she was upset about her
Eagles are known for their awareness, flying high above and scanning the ground below. For this reason in the novel Looking For Alaska the dean of students at Culver Creek gained his nickname “The Eagle”. The Eagle is made out to be pure evil, but he is not. The Eagle is the exact opposite he does not have a bad bone in his body. The Eagle only gets involved in things if it will make the school a better and safer environment. Throughout the novel the Eagle never gets involved unless it could harm
How will Alaska Young escape her labyrinth? Looking for Alaska, by John Green, writes a young adult realistic fiction novel accompanied with romance, death, grief, and loss. Green encompasses different themes throughout the novel. The most important theme Green embodies in Looking for Alaska is death. Looking for Alaska takes place on campus at Culver Creek Preparatory High School located in Birmingham, Alabama. Miles “Pudge” Halter moves to Culver Creek Boarding School in hopes of finding the “Great