Book Summary: Looking For Alaska By John Green

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.

Looking for Alaska is by John Green, the book is about a teenager named Miles going to a new boarding school in Alabama called Culver Creek. Miles meets a very complex character called Alaska, she is adventurous and unpredictable. Alaska turns Miles's life around. Miles also makes a couple of friends named Chip, Takumi, and Lara. Alaska’s death was an accident, because she had no intention of dying.

Looking For Alaska by John Green is a story about a few teenagers who went to boarding school. One of the main characters, Miles, went to a new boarding school called Culver Creek. He soon became friends with The Colonel, Alaska, Lara and Takumi who had already been going to Culver Creek before him. Alaska, the smart, pretty, and outgoing girl, reeled Miles into her world and changed him completely. After Alaska had built a strong bond with Miles, she later died.

Question 2: Character Description Miles “Pudge” Halter is the first person you meet in Looking for Alaska. He is tall and scrawny hence the irony of his nickname Pudge, given to him by his soon to be good friend the Colonel. Pudge had never had many friends in his hometown but when he moved to Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama he met some new friends that changed his life. He finally stepped out of his box and was smoking cigs and playing pranks and drinking booze, all things him and his parents never would've thought he'd be one to do. Pudge finally had some adventure in his life.

The main character in Looking For Alaska was a skinny boy named Miles. He was later given the nickname Pudge due to his physical appearance. He found a passion of learning and memorizing people's last

Looking for Alaska by John Green is a young adult fiction. This book is about a young man named Miles Hatler and his group friends. Being born into Bolivars labyrinth these young teens are soon to face the troubles their labyrinth has to bring. Miles was a young man born and raised in Florida, wanting to get a new start and be like his dad Miles moved to Cluver Creek. Where he met a beautiful prankster by the name of Alaska young. Although Miles had no idea that this girl would turn his less from average life upside down.

Looking for Alaska is a book written by John Green. It’s about a boy named Miles Halter going to a new school, and making friends. He becomes friends with a girl named Alaska Young. He learns about relationships and how to deal with death. He also learns that it’s alright to forget sometimes.

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.

Looking for Alaska, a novel by John Green about high schoolers who reside in a boarding school, houses a unique set of characters. Each of the main characters is built with traits specific to that character alone. The main characters in the novel are the new kid, Miles “Pudge”, his roommate, Chip “Colonel”, their friend, Takumi, and the girl down the hall, Alaska. Although Pudge is the new kid, he is a determined person, especially when it comes to learning about his school and the students it contains. Pudge’s best friend, the Colonel, is a very loyal and has a leader’s persona. Unlike the Colonel, Takumi is often resentful, but almost always is cheerful and is a positive person. Lastly, Alaska, the girl Pudge is mystified by, is rebellious

John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska was a major success winning the 2006 Printz Award, and his sixth novel was debuted as the number one best-seller on the New York best-seller list in January 2012. He was once included

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

“Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important” (Nev Schulman). In the book Looking for Alaska written by John Green, the main character Miles Halter goes on adventures in the hopes of changing his boring life. The book is based in the present time period where Miles is in high school. Miles hates that his life is so predictable, and that he doesn’t have any friends to go out and have fun with him. Throughout the book he is changing and trying to find out who he really is, and where his new life will take him. Miles is a teenager who loves last words, the adventures of life, and the way he feels about Alaska.

In John Greene’s fictional novel “Looking for Alaska” (2005), he symbolizes the way last words of people, and how it tells their life stories and experiences. Greene develops this symbolism by using his main character’s obsession with famous people’s last words to gain closure on their death, but without knowledge of a main supporting character’s death (Alaska’s death), Pudge gains no perspective of Alaska’s life and her experiences. Last quotes create a picture of how a person’s life was lived, he also makes it seem as if they create a sense that life can be taken away in a split second, so the closer that a person is with another, the less likely they’re to have closure when facing death. Despite Greene’s intended audience of older

Looking for Alaska by John Green is my favorite book I have read this summer. It was fairly easy with only 272 pages and it is a realistic fiction chapter book. The book had many simple sentences as well, making it an easier

Looking for Alaska, a novel by John Green, was banned in Sumner County, Tennessee because it contains an oral sex scene and another mildly-erotic passage. The book takes place at a boarding school in Alabama and tells the story of Miles “Pudge” Halter, a last words enthusiast. His safe and boring life is changed when he meets sexy and self-destructive Alaska Young. Pudge falls desperately in love with her. Catastrophe strikes and Pudge realizes the value of life and love. I disagree because though the book does contain sexual passages, it’s more important to look at the book as a whole, not to misinterpret individual scenes taken out of context. By focusing primarily on the few scenes in the book that are explicit, the meaning of the book gets