Book Report Looking For Alaska

In the book, Race Across Alaska, by Libby Riddles, Libby is an up and coming musher who has no sponsor and no money. However, she takes her love of adventure and the sport to the Iditarod and ends up winning. The first few years, after moving to Alaska, were hard for Libby. She had moved to Alaska from Wisconsin when she was 16 with her brother and decided to become a professional musher. Due to this she's paid very little and her track record was not great, so she was forced to live in a trailer with no heating or electricity. She could only eat the food she hunted. After years of living like this and training Libby decides to race in the Iditarod, an 11,049-mile race .through the tundra, for her third time in 1975, and she ended up winning.

She, Colonel, Pudge, Takumi and Lara grow exceptionally close, fast. They pull pranks, study, mess around, and get into trouble together. One night everything changes when Alaska is in a terrible accident while drunk and she dies. The boys feel an abundance of guilt for letting her drive drunk. They try to figure out exactly what happened to explain the odd details of the accident.

In novel, Step From Heaven by Na, An and Looking For Alaska by Green, John, two unique characters are introduced. Young Ju from Step From Heaven and Miles or Pudge from Looking For Alaska. These two adolescents have to go through different challenges. As they face adversities, they react in different ways. However, they were able to overcome those obstacles due to the guidance of their characteristics. Additionally, those adversities helped them reveal their real identities. These two characters live different lives but face similar challenges.

Looking For Alaska is a coming of age book about a boy named Miles and his experience during his first year of boarding school. Miles makes new friends and learns that compared to them, he has lived out a rather boring life. He spends the year doing new and wild things with his friends and his not-so-boring dream girl, Alaska Young. When Alaska dies under anomalous circumstances, her friends set out to find out who the girl they thought they knew really was and commemorate her death with the prank of a lifetime, one only Alaska herself could've

Throughout the book, Miles Halter shows his different sides. Miles is loyal, loving, and a deep thinker. His different traits surface throughout the book, and I chose a few that seemed the best about him.

One night, the five of them come together to pull off a prank to get back at some snobby rich kids. Pudge and Takumi distract the dean while Lara puts blue hair die in the rich kids shampoo, and Alaska and the Colonel send out fake progress reports to the rich kids parents saying they are failing. The prank is a success and they celebrate by drinking. Alaska and Pudge end up kissing and it is the best day of his life.

In the book, Looking for Alaska, by John Green, a boy, Miles (a.k.a. Pudge), is going to a private school in search of his Great Perhaps. In the process, he meets two characters, Alaska and Chip (a.k.a. The Colonel). The three students all get into mischief right away, by starting pranks, smoking and drinking and avoiding the Eagle, a teacher who will bust anyone for anything.

Summary: Looking for Alaska is the story of a young boy named Miles Halter who leaves his hometown in Florida in order to attend Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama for his junior year. This boy loves reading biographies and especially memorizing last words of famous people. At Culver Creek, he meets new friends such as Chip his roommate also called Colonel, Takumi and Alaska a beautiful young girl with whom he will fall in love but cannot have since she already has a boyfriend named Jake. Unfortunately, under their influence, Miles starts smoking and drinking alcohol. One night after having drank a lot of alcohol, Alaska and Miles start to kiss but do not go further because Alaska

Author John Green was the recipient of five prize winning awards and almost always writes novels to display a love story targeted towards teens. John Green's debut novel, Looking for Alaska definitely displays a heartwarming love story, that the author intended for teen readers. Looking for Alaska was the proud winner of the Michael L. Printz Award in 2006. John Green has since written six novels and won four additional prize awards. John Green's first among many novels, Looking for Alaska created a frustrating read when he failed to end his novel and when he selected a first person narrator approach. However, this novel had a creative and well chosen title that fit the novel's substance.

While he was in class the teacher caught in looking out the window, and told him to get out, Alaska then explained that it was stupid and she left to. After this Alaska, Colonel, and Takumi showed Pudge where the smoking hole was ( a spot in the forest where they hangout and smoke/drink). Alaska and Pudge start spending a lot of time together ( yes, Alaska does have a boyfriend, but he lives somewhere else), and they made a deal that if she got him a girlfriend he has to help her figure out how to get out of the labyrinth of suffering ( a quote in her book ). The next day the group goes to McDonald's to study for a test, and Alaska also invited a Russian girl named Lara so she can try to set her and Pudge up. After this Pudge, Alaska, Colonel, and Takumi go up to the lake to smoke, and get caught by the Eagle and have to attend Jury the next day. In jury Alaska and Colonel take the fall and say that Takumi and Pudge were only witnesses, so in the end Colonel and Alaska got 10 hours of community work. A couple days later Alaska and Jake ( her boyfriend ), Lara and Pudge, Colonel and Sara ( his girlfriend), and Takumi go on a triple date to the basketball

In Looking for Alaska, by John Green, We meet the character Miles Halter. Miles becomes a new student at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Birmingham, Alabama, where he meets his roommate Chip Martin, who they call the Colonel. Chip introduces Miles to his friends Takumi Hikohito, Lara Buterskaya, and the elegant, secretive Alaska

I read Looking for Alaska over the summer. It was written by John Green and published in 2005. The book is about a boy named Miles Halter, nicknamed Pudge. He grew up in Florida and wasn’t very popular. He decides he isn’t about that life anymore so he moves schools to Culver Creek. He meets new people and embark on many new adventures. His group of friends include Alaska Young, Colonel (real name Chip Martin) and Takumi. They are always seem to be doing something foolish, like drinking or smoking. I think John Green really wants the readers to connect emotionally to what the characters are feeling. I think he wants to teach a lesson and in this book he is sort of telling people what not to do but at the same time what to do.

Prayer in public schools has been a controversial issue in our country for a very long time.  According to the First Amendment, the government shall not establish any official religion. Therefore, as long as the government doesn't make it mandatory for the students to pray, they should be allowed to at least have that choice. One minute set aside for a student to either have a moment of silence or to have their own prayer isn't hurting anyone, as long as students are not forced to pray. By taking away that right, it is violating their rights as American citizens and their right to have freedom of religion.

In the beginning while learning about Alaska’s death Miles and the Colonel find a mysterious comment Alaska made in one of her favorite books. The quote states,“How will I ever get out of the Labyrinth! To a margin note written in her loop heavy cursive : straight and fast.”(155) Alaska had wrote this a few days before her death. She wrote how to get out of the labyrinth straight and fast, which implies how to end her life. It seems like she was struggling and that she did not want to live anyone. Also, her death is considered straight and fast. The quote states, “A cop car showed up to stop traffic, and she ran into the cop car. She was so drunk she didn’t even swerve. The cop car would have had it’s lights on pudge, she ran into a cop car that had it’s lights on.” (156) This quote shows that while driving Alaska saw the police car ahead of her and she had the chance to stop her car, but she kept going straight and fast. These two quotes prove that Alaska committed suicide because she saw the cop car from far away

“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 to the mysteries around us; that we forget to actually live. Life is a mystery itself and instead of searching to solve it, we have to live it. The characters in the novel are one of the most important elements used, because they are the most relatable to the readers. Miles “Pudge” Halter is the main character of the novel, who the author uses to prove this through the development of the character. One symbol used in the novel is the labyrinth; it is a mystery that the characters try to find the meaning to throughout the novel. Setting explains the time, place, and moods of the events in the story. Culver Creek Boarding School is the main setting of the novel, and through the events that occur in the story the setting has a significant