Book Report Looking For Alaska

They wanted to remember Alaska as a funny prankster. So they hired a male stripper to come into school. They had set it up so he would come into the school during job day so that he would have to give a speech about his job. Then they disguised him as a professor and in he went. On that day they were all gathered into a room with the speakers. The professor was announced and up he went. He started his surprisingly vulgar speech on the topic of sexuality in teens, “He read directly from the speech without looking up, but he read with the confident, airy tone of a slightly snooty academic… while boys are seen by girls as whole people-” He was cut off. IT was by Lara, “And then Lara stood up, and in her delicate, innocent accent, cut him off. ‘You're so hot! I weesh you'd shut up and take off your clothes( John Green 207-208).” After a bit of arguing the stripper started stripping. The people in the crowd had mixed feelings about what they were witnessing. Some were laughing others complaining and some on the ground crying because they were laughing so hard. The supervisors of the speeches knew Miles and Chip had done it but did not confront them because of their reasons for doing it. Honestly this was the best thing they could have one to remember Alaska’s death. Also this event gave Miles and Chip a reason to be at peace with the death of their dear

Looking for Alaska and It’s kind of a funny story both deal with topics most people would try to avoid, or not talk about. Most of the topics or themes are not that extreme, most of them are things that go on in everyday life for teenagers, in the past and in the modern world. For Looking for Alaska alcohol was a big topic discussed in the novel, The teenagers at Culver Creek drink A lot, But the y don’t just drink for fun, and most of the time it’s innocent use, alcohol in Looking for Alaska is usually goes with trying to break some sort of rules. For Miles drinking was his way of being socially accepted, for the colonel drinking was his way of mourning, but in Alaska’s case alcohol was a way to cope with and soften the pain and guilt that

The novel Looking for Alaska by John Green is told in first person narrative from the point of view of Miles Halter. The story takes place in Alabama on the campus of Culver Creek Preparatory School following the lives of Miles, a 16 year old boy, and his group of friends that consist of the "Colonel", Alaska, and Takumi. As the novel progresses, Miles' innocence slowly unfolds as he faces the pressures of drinking, smoking and Alaska’s death. Miles changes from being an antisocial person to someone who makes an effort to integrate into a new environment. He also transforms from someone who has an ordinary life to a rebellious youth.

Challenges are a part of everyday life, and they change us in different and unexpected ways. The theme challenges create change (within individuals) can be a pivotal part of a text. Characters and people that face challenges have to change their ways of thinking, or even their lives in order to overcome these challenges. The texts Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, Every Day by David Levithan, Looking for Alaska by John Green and Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom all show how challenges create change in not just one individual but multiple people throughout the texts.

Miles "Pudge" Halter is a new student at Culver Creek in Birmingham, Alabama. He is worried he will not meet friends at this new school, but soon after he arrives he meets his roommate The Colonel, who soon becomes one of his closet friends. The Colonel helps him around school and introduces him to his soon to be best friends, Alaska and Takumi. Miles's friends introduce him into smoking, drinking, and all sorts of mischief. They are avoiding the Eagle because if they get caught, which they do, they have to serve community service hours. Miles is a very curious student. From the beginning Miles develops a crush for Alaska. Alaska and him have religion class together. Religion is Miles favorite class, which is taught by the "old man." Alaska is not very fond of religion class but she loves pre calculus. Miles soon meets Laura, who is his girlfriend later in the story. Alaska introduces Miles to Laura and Alaska's collage aged boyfriend, Jake. Time passes and Miles finds more friends and new enemies, such as the weekday worriers —the rich kids—. l over Thanksgiving break Miles and Alaska stay on campus. A couple days later Colonel, Laura, and Takumi come back and are preparing to pull a huge prank on the Weekday Worriers and the Eagle. Their prank is a success and the friends spend a couple nights out at an old barn. After their success Miles and the Colonel are in Alaska's room. All three of them are drinking and soon they get very

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

Looking For Alaska by John Green is a coming of age story focused on a shy and friendless fifteen-year-old boy named Miles Halter. He leaves his home in Florida to attend Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama, seeking his “Great Perhaps” (Green 5). It is important to note that this novel is written in two parts, before and after. Before, Miles fits in perfect at Culver Creek where he meets his first true friends, Chip “The Colonel” Martin and Alaska Young. His friends help him adjust to life at the boarding school by teaching him to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, and pull pranks with the best of them. Miles begins to fall helplessly

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.

Transcendent means beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience. I think people would go to the Alaskan wilderness to find a deeper meaning in their life because they want to transcend into another stage in their life. The wilderness can be a great place to do that because it is isolated from society. Also you are one on one with nature and the wild is your playground. Noone is there to stop you or hold you back. All your thoughts are able to manifest freely. To reach that transcendent state requires sacrifices. Such as moving from society or your family. These things are needed because you are trying to dig deep inside yourself and while you do that you can’t be worried about the things around you. All distractions

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.

“Last night Alaska Young was in a terrible accident” (Green 139), The words that changed everyone's lives. Miles Halter (pudge) starts attending a new school in Alabama, and he meets his three best friends (Alaska, the Colonel, and Takumi). Miles has a major crush on Alaska but can’t do anything about it, because she has a boyfriend. The three best friend do everything together including drinking, smoking, and pulling pranks. Until he only has two best friends left. Alaska got in that car drunk and drove and drove and didn’t stop until she ran into a cop car and died. Was it an accident or was it suicide? I guess they will never truly know. I will be predicting, evaluating, and questioning.

Starnes. But some days Alaska and Miles would just lay out and read or just get to know a lot about each other. Alaska always flirted with Miles but she had a boyfriend whom she “loved a lot” who came to see her once in a while because he lived in another town. But one day when Takomi, Alaska, Miles, and Chip were playing a round of drunken truth or dare, Alaska and Miles start kissing, and Alaska tells Miles that it will be continued. After the whole thing dies down they all separate and go back to their own dorms to get a nights rest. But, instead of going to sleep Alaska starts panicking in the middle of the night for a reason that no one knew and left the dorms, telling Miles and The Colonel to help her out with escaping The Eagle, Mr. Starnes. She drives away and Miles and the Colonel both go back to bed. The Eagle, gathering up everyone in the morning, awakes Chip and Miles to tell them to go to the cafeteria to await what he has to inform them. Once everyone from the school is there, he sadly pronounces Alaska’s’ death. Miles goes into a slight depression because of how much he loved her and tries to figure out what she was so upset about

Do you know why October 18th, 1867 is an important date for Alaska? Do you know how much the United States bought the Alaskan Territory from Russia? Does it fascinate you to know how much money the United States paid per acre? Well although Alaska has a very short history compared to the rest of the contiguous United States, it has a very interesting history. The reason for that is because it was one of the very last states brought into the Union and recognized as “one of their own”. As most of people know, Alaska can be a really cold and brutal place to live. Depending on where you live in Alaska, the climate can differentiate from about 8°F - 58°F. All around Alaska, there are many points of interest. You will discover lots of important

Mark and Alec go back to their village to report this news to their friends. When they got back they were just in time to see Darnell die. Alec talks to Lana and they decide to go to the Berg’s base to find a cure. Soon after they start, Misty and Toad get sick and die. Also, along the way they find a girl named DeeDee who got shot with a dart, but she didn’t get sick. After they met DeeDee,Mark and Alec encountered a bunch of people with the Flare that said DeeDee was possessed by demons, while Lana, Trina, and DeeDee stayed at their camp. On the way back from meeting the crazy people, Alec and Mark encounter a wildfire lit by the crazy people. Alec and Mark finally get back to camp, but to realize that the girls are not there. They assumed that they headed to the Berg’s base, so they went

She was very scared and frightened when the lights came on. She found herself in a corner in a suite room. A man was sitting beside her, staring at her. He told her that he knew what she was after and she will never get it. She looked at him carefully and she realized that it was Tanner. He help up her phone and said that you won’t be needing this anymore. He then threw it out the window and it went into the sea. As Mindy was struggling, Steve Bendle walked in the door. He looked very old, but he seemed quick on his feet. He walked up to Mindy and ripped the tape off of her mouth. Mindy felt pain from the tape on her mouth. She told Tanner and Steve that you will never get away with this. Tanner pulled out his gun and pointed it at Mindy’s