Analysis Of John Green 's Life

“It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?” Indeed, it is true, we all go through times of pain and it can be difficult to escape the clutches of sadness. John Green illustrates the struggle to gain control and acceptance over one’s problems through many of his characters, but mainly through Miles (also referred to as Pudge) in his award winning novel “Looking for Alaska”. Miles encounters many struggles throughout the story and gains a little knowledge, strength, and maturity after conquering each. Through his struggles, he achieves a higher understanding

I am immensely grateful to have the opportunity to share my knowledge of someone who has inspired and motivated me throughout my lifetime and deserves recognition. John Harold Johnson was born in January 1918 in Arkansas City, Arkansas. Sadly, African Americans had no chance for an education beyond eighth grade in Arkansas City, Arkansas, so, Johnson and his family moved to Chicago where he attended DuSable High School.

The novel “Looking for Alaska,” is narrated by John Green from the perspective of Miles Halter (A.K.A Pudge). The novel tells a phenomenal story about a boy who is striving to find his individuality in society! He vacates his monotonous life and home in Florida where he is lonesome, and has no friends, to go to a boarding school in Alabama. The focal rationale why Miles wants to leave his home in Florida is to go out and seek “A Great Perhaps.” “The Great Perhaps,” was introduced at the beginning of the storyline by Rabelais’ final words “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” I surmise that Rabelais was denoting to life and death. You see many people are always analyzing during their lifetime “What supervenes after death?” There are a lot of perhaps! Yet Miles doesn’t want to be analogous to those people. He wants to attend Culver Creek to find “A Great Perhaps” so that he doesn’t have to wait until he becomes elderly and is going to die to start seeking “A Great Perhaps.” His family was also aware that he wasn’t going to find it with the likes of Will and Marie who are deemed to be losers at his school.

John Green is an author who writes young adult books. Green was born in Indianapolis Indiana, August 24th, 1977. He was raised with his two parents Mike Green and Sydney Green. He also lived with his brother Hank Green and sister-in-law Sarah Urist Green. Growing up he moved around a bit. First, he lived in Indiana then it was Michigan after that it was Alabama finally the settled in Florida. While he was moving he went to different schools.

John Green was living in Chicago when he started writing his first novel. The novel was “Looking For Alaska” it was published in 2005. Green earned the American Library Association’s Michael L. Printz Award in 2006 for that novel. The book was so popular it broke a record for New York Times bestseller list for a whole 7 years. Shortly after that Green wrote a second novel in 2006 titled, “Abundance of Katherines”. It was another hit which was able to gain a runner-up position for the Printz Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize’s finalist stand. Three years after his last novel was published, a new novel was published in 2008, “Paper Town”. Now the novel you've all been waiting for the biggest accomplishment of his life “The Fault in Our Stars”. It was published on January 10, 2012 and It was the most known novel of 2012. The Fault in Our Stars is the

John Michael Green was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Mike and Sydney Green on August 24, 1977. Soon after he was born his parents decided to move to Michigan, then to Birmingham, Alabama, and then to Orlando, Florida. In Orlando, he attended a school called Lake Highland Preparatory School. When he lived in Alabama he used a little school right outside of Birmingham as inspiration for his first book named Looking for Alaska. His teenage years were him being bullied and no one really helped him, so he became miserable from it all.

Christopher McCandless always had the desire to go on adventures, which led him to his last and greatest adventure of all time, Alaska. Along the way he met Jan Burre, Ronald Franz, and Wayne Westerberg and left such a strong impression that allowed his friends to see him for who he was. They realized that no matter how crazy people saw him for traveling all over; they saw him as someone in search of himself. McCandless adventure was something inspirational to his friends. While on this adventure he wanted to search for something deep.

Famed novelist John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas ,California. His books, included his landmark work The Grapes of Wrath, often dealt with social and economic issues. Steinbeck was raised with modest means. His father, John Ernst, tried his hand at several different jobs to keep his family fed: He own a feed-and-grain store, managed a flour plant and served as treasurer of Monterrey County. His mother, Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, was a former school teacher.

The author puts this so that just like Miles, we too come to terms with Alaska’s death and accept the effects it has, whether it be good or bad. Although drinking is one of the main topics, and a controversial one, this book is also heavily themed on friendship, and tells the tale of a group of friends who have to deal with an unexpected

Johnny was born in Paris on Nov. 4, 1929, and he lived with his family in Vienna and London until he was six years old, when they moved back to the U.S. He attended public school and then Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts,

After countless hours of hard work he eventually finished his work and he finally published the book in 2005. Looking for Alaska is a novel which was inspired by John’s experience at Indian Springs. Unlike most young adult authors Green’s approach of writing a Young adult novel differs from other authors because he introduces a more realistic thoughtful lesson that can relate to a teenager’s life. In 2006 Looking for Alaska earned the American Library Association’s Michael L. Printz Award. The book was extremely successful and made a record of staying on the New York Times bestselling list for 7

John Steinbeck Jr. was born in Salinas, California in 1902 and lived in a small rural town where he was one of four children. He graduated Salinas High School at seventeen years old. His mother, Olive Hamilton, was a schoolteacher who influenced his love of reading, while his

“Francois Rabelais. He was this poet. And his last words were ‘I go to seek a Great Perhaps.’ That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.” (Green) “Looking for Alaska”, by John Green, is a novel about a boy named Miles “Pudge” Halter, who is done with his safe life at home and heads off to the crazy world of Culver Creek Boarding School to seek his “Great Perhaps”. His life changes drastically, and is anything but boring and safe; because down the hall is Alaska Young, the gorgeous, clever and utterly fascinating girl, who is an event herself. She steals Pudge’s heart and pulls him into her world, and launches him into the Great Perhaps. Sometimes we get too caught up searching for a solution

‘Looking for Alaska’ by New York’s best-selling author, John Green takes you on a journey of triumph and tragedy through Mile Halter’s life in boarding school. The unique character personalities; use of figurative language and themes have all contributed to making this novel an excellent read.

Looking for Alaska is a book about a boy named Miles that goes away to a private school called Culver Creek were he meets a group of friends that he starts to hang out with throughout the year. He becomes very good friends with everyone and they begin to let him in on their secret spot called "the smoking hole", where they all smoke their cigarettes without getting in trouble. Soon he starts to get a crush on a girl named Alaska, which seems to already have a boyfriend. As soon as Miles starts to fall in love with her a horrible thing happens. Alaska dies in a terrible car accident, which turns into a very mysterious and confusing death. When Miles and the other boys get the news, they start fighting to find out the truth on what really happened. After reading this novel, one is left with the question, "How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?"