Analysis Of The Book Looking For Alaska

Many people in America are unsure where they belong or where they should be. Some people choose to explore the world by traveling while the others choose to rot in their boring lives. Life in America is hard, there are highly expectations from people and the judgment is in every corner one turns to. The two novels, Travels with Charley and Into the Wild are two unique novels about separate individuals who choose to travel in order to seek what they are looking for. McCandless, from Into the Wild, is a young man who travels to Alaska to seek for the freedom he wanted and to escape from the reality he was living. John, from Travels with Charley, is a retired citizen who decides to go on a journey to witness what the American people have become. John comes across New Orleans, a place in where judgment is an ordinary act of the people. New Orleans is part of the racist south, as for John; he had no negative feeling towards color people. Alaska is a beautiful place to explore due to its nature and wilderness, making it a peaceful place to escape to, while New Orleans is revolved with judgment and discrimination.

During the 1800’s, lives changed for many people. The Klondike Gold Rush began. In the article Klondike Gold Rush written by the Public Domain, the passage from A Women Who Went to Alaska written by May Kellogg Sullivan, and the video City of Gold made by the National Film Board of Canada and narrated Pierre Berton, the points of view of each show the miners’ lives. Each piece has a point of view, which helps the reader understand the miners’ lives through the word choice, and the tone

The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henriquez reveals the struggles that many immigrants face when coming to the U.S., focusing on the story and experiences of the Riviera family. The Rivieras moved the the U.S. to get a special education for their daughter, Maribel, who had serious brain damage. Previously in Mexico, Maribel fell off of a ladder and injured her brain, causing her to have mental instability. This moment changed the lives of the Riviera family, especially Alma and Arturo, Maribel's parents. After the accident, Arturo was quick to blame Alma for it, placing a strain on their relationship and obstructing their honesty with each other.

John Green) Alaska lives an abstract life where she recognizes how “cruel” the world is. She has lived a harsh past and it’s clear she uses cigarettes and alcohol to give her life a sense of mortality. “Y’all smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die.” (pg.

After reading the excerpt from Looking for Alaska by John Green it is evident that the speaker is an extremely introverted individual who feels indifferent towards his guests. He mentions how he could “feel their pity”, but then goes on to say that “they needed more pity than I did”. This implies that although the speaker is most certainly an introvert he does not feel the need to make acquaintances with others. He does not have any desire of becoming friends with people who only speak to him out of pure pity. The speaker also mentions how the dip and chips were “intended for my imaginary friends”, which shows that he does not usually expect company any ways. The fact that his friends are “imaginary” clearly shows that he never had any friends

In the book Looking For Alaska by John Green, we learn about a quiet and very shy going to his graduation party with only two friends from high school. The young man's name is Miles halter and he is leaving for prep school at Culver Creek Preparatory School. This young man seems to have a personality that's very shy and antisocial. It even says in the book “Said cavalry consisted of exactly two people: Marie Lawson, a tiny blonde with rectangular glasses, and her chunky (to put it charitably) boyfriend, Will. (Green 1)” What this shows is that Miles doesn't like to do many extracurricular activities and is very shy in school. The point when he decides to not become shy and step out of his shell is when he decides to smoke a cigarette. In

The book uses imagery to give the reader a picture in their mind of what Chris would see in the Alaskan wild, and also involves a mystery of finding what lead to his death. The author describes a thrilling and adventurous journey of the wild, and shows how the wild shapes Chris’s life.

May immigrants sacrifice who they are, what have and their cultural beliefs and identity when immigrating to a new country. These experiences and struggles are clearly echoed in Cristina Henriquez’ novel, The Book of Unknown Americans. These immigrants leave behind their roots and their cultural awareness behind in order to reach a land that promises freedom and financial growth. I just wonder if the sacrifice is worth the struggles and emotional losses immigrants encounter during this journey. The story of Maribel Rivera keens closely to me because it resembles my journey as well as the journey of others who bring or send their families to the United States.

On the road near Fairbanks, Alaska, a hitchhiker calling himself Alex is picked up by a truck driver passing through named Jim Gallien. Alex explains his goal of walking out into the wilds of Alaska and surviving off the land on their way to the Denali National Park where he requested to be dropped off. Jim at first disregards him for being another delusional traveler visiting Alaska, but during their ride together, he discovers that Alex is actually quite insightful and educated, but lacks equipment – an ax, snowshoes, waterproof boots, a compass, a large enough rife, more food - necessary for his journey.

Looking for Alaska by John Green has interested many people about “The Great Perhaps” that it focuses on. The “Great Perhaps” is the idea that there is

Two Articles that are named, “Klondike Gold Rush”, and “ A Woman Who Went to Alaska” both talk about how the lives of miners all around the world are hard and unfair. But they make that topic clear through different viewpoints. “Klondike Gold Rush” talks about the lives of miners through an article. It gets the statement that the klondike Gold rush was one of the hardest working, and one of the biggest bust for miners.

When my sister saw John Green’s Looking For Alaska sitting on our kitchen counter, she assumed it was about someone trying to find the state of Alaska, not a heartbreaking journey of a group of friends looking for answers after Alaska’s sudden death. Looking For Alaska has been both praised and banned since it was originally published in 2005. People do not understand what Green is trying to convey in the novel and write it off as inappropriate. Looking For Alaska is much too well written for it to cause these negative reactions.

However, McCandless was content being away from pressures of society for the rest of his life, even if that meant the rest of his life was going to be short. In Chris’s philosophy, “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure,” he says that in order to live life to the full spirit, a person must find a passion for a life adventure (Krakauer 57). In Chris’s case, he took this straight into the wilderness and away from the society that crushes those spirits of adventure. In other works of literature, other characters have escaped society and died in the process. Looking for Alaska, written by Kenyon College graduate and recipient of the Michael L. Printz award John Green, is about the mystery behind the sudden death of a young adventurous girl named Alaska who dies in a car accident. She ran off crying from her room after a phone call crying, and she drove off drunk to her death (Green 132). Her death was a mystery of whether or not she died because of a drunk accident or she was finding a way to escape her “labyrinth” that everybody’s lives were trapped in. Throughout the book, she explained her discontent with society, wealth, and people that corrupted it. Both Chris and Alaska shared the same idea that adventure and risk brought out the

To some, teenagers appear to be the same in their attitudes and choices. However, this common stereotype is false. Individuals have various personalities and deal with different struggles mentally and physically. In the book Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter and Chip Martin, the main protagonists, both seem like average teenagers on the surface; but they each have their own unique qualities. Over time they learn more about each other and grow. During the development of their friendship, they see how they differ from each other. Although they may seem like average teenagers on the surface, Miles Halter and Chip Martin are different because of their origin, physical traits, and attitudes.

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?"