Character Analysis Alaska Young

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

“’Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor!’” (Collins 19). This is the line in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins that is most memorable. The Hunger Games is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen in post apocalyptic North America called Panem. It is broken up into 12 districts each district getting more impoverish the higher the number. Here we find Katniss in 12, they are ruled by the capitol and its president Snow. This society keeps peace by having a drawing in each district for tributes a male and female from the ages of twelve to eighteen. The tributes which Katniss is one, are then put in an arena and they fight to the death for all to see on tv, until only one is left alive. An analysis of Katniss will be done by her character and how it is shown in the book through her loyalty, anger, and stoic personality.

In his most famous work, the medieval French poet Francois Villon, suggested that, “necessity from virtue hinders, and wolves seek for prey by hunger prest.” Omar Tyree explores this philosophical problem of the origins of good and evil in his dark novel, Leslie. The story introduces Leslie, the twenty something college student of Haitian origin, who grew up in the abject poverty of New Orleans’ projects. Unable to deal with her unfortunate circumstances, she gradually embraces the dark side. Tyree uses language emphasize the character’s alienation and stereotypes, the masks and disguises to symbolize moral disengagement and the captive character of a cynical drug dealer, Coup, as a proxy for a cruel reality, devoid of any illusions and wishful

Learning can have a positive effect on a person ,it won't always have a positive effect but it can considering what type of person they are. Learning can be astounding for certain individuals but for those others they might take it for granted. It highly depends on what you are learning rather than just the person.

Every person is trying the escape an often inescapable labyrinth filled with wrong turns. In Looking For Alaska by John Green, Alaska’s friends all are dragged into a labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human. Alaska, the Colonel, and Miles hang out , sneak smoke breaks, and plot revenge on the Weekday Warriors and the Eagle. They are living their normal everyday life without realizing they are finding ”their own [way] out of the labyrinth” (Green, John: Looking for Alaska). During all their mischievous actions a tragic accident happens, which leads to all of Alaska’s death and her friends having one last celebration in her name, so they wanted to do one last hilarious prank.

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He has been at Culver Creek since his freshman year and will act as a guide for Pudge, even though he said he wouldn’t. On the first day, he meets Pudge and takes him to Alaska’s room to buy cigarettes. The Colonel sticks up for Pudge and decides to do a prank on the Weekday Warriors because when the threw Pudge in the lake, the tied him up so he couldn’t swim. Alaska and the Colonel hack the grading system and send out false report cards to the Weekday Warriors parents and put a blue hair dye in their hair products. The Colonel also invites Alaska and Pudge to his home over break which was very small, but he wasn’t embarrassed about it. He loves his mom and it was obvious to

Eventually though, The Colonel gets bored playing detective, and he soon stops trying to help. Pudge, however, keeps on with the investigation, perhaps bordering on the brink of insanity with his need to fully understand Alaska. He feels as though it’s his fault that he didn’t understand what was happening sooner, and that if he figures out what pushed her to this point it will make up for his ignorance. To really prove the kind of person that Pudge became after Alaska’s death, I am going to include the last portion of the novel. It is an essay written by Pudge for his religious studies course. The student could pick any question that they wanted, and they attempted to dissect it and come up with a theological answer. I feel that even though it’s the last part of the novel, it’s where everything really comes together emotionally.

Based on the result of the Word Recognition Inventory (WRI), Alexandra scored instructional at the pre-primer level; she was able to read with support. There were no signs of independent level; she was not able to read by herself. She was struggling recognizing immediately some words. For example, she read weather instead of water son instead of sun, tap instead of top. She was able to recognize that she pronounced some of the words inaccurately, and self correct some of the words. For example, she was able to self-correct words work and bright. When I gave her words from the 1st grade list, she started to make more and more significant mistakes: she read white instead of wife, house instead of horse, or sold instead of soft. She even tried to avoid reading some of the words, skipping them. When I gave her a list of the 2nd grade level, she was not able to read even with my assistance, what means she reached the Frustration Level. She was skipping

1. In the novel there are several factors of Esther Greenwood’s life that help contributed to her descent into depression. One of the main factors is that Esther had a mental illness that was left untreated for quiet some time. The time she spent dealing with it on her own helped contribute to her spiral into insanity because she had no clue how to deal with what was happening.

I smoke to die.” (Green 56) and she also says, “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” (Green 68). She mentions throughout the story her ways of escaping the labyrinth. Sadly, she escapes her labyrinth. She got into a car accident and she was under the influence of alcohol. Funny thing is, she was reading a book called The General in His Labyrinth, and she noted next to a quote from the book that said, “How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?”, and she noted the exact words “Straight & Fast”. Throughout the book, she was foreshadowing her own death and it is situational irony as her death happened fast and straight as she was traveling at a ridiculously fast speed and it was a head on collision. After her death, that is when I realized I was quite similar to Alaska. I do not know who I am. I am so confused. Past experiences caused me to emotionally unstable like her. I am very in denial of things and tend to push those thoughts aside, just like Alaska

However, she eventually gives him the answer, "'It's not life or death, the labyrinth.' 'Um, okay. So what is it?' 'Suffering,' she said. 'Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolívar was talking about pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?'" (82). By exploring the Alaska's labyrinth, Pudge is able to figure out how to escape the labyrinth himself, which leads him to answer the central question asked by Dr. Hyde. Alaska watches her mother die and is frozen into paralysis from calling 911 to save her. Alaska blames herself (as does her father) for her mother’s death. This is the main incident that causes Alaska’s subsequent suffering and pain. Her pain further snowballs when she forgets the anniversary of her mother’s death and she feels she has failed her mother yet another time. You can feel the pain Alaska experiences. Alaska has been always mysterious, and vague as pudge says. The labyrinth is like a complex maze with a prize to whoever escapes it, but a labyrinth is different from a maze because, a maze can have multiple paths and the labyrinth can only have one. Alaska most likely got lost in the labyrinth, she held two personas going two

The story follows Miles Halter as he journey through his first year at Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama. From the start, it's obvious that Miles isn’t the average junior in high school. He has a fascination with peoples’ last words before death and is obsessed with studying. Then, he was welcomed into the adventure-filled lives of his roommate "the Colonel," Takumi and the utterly fascinating Alaska Young.

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Miles Halter is average American boy who seek for a “Great perhaps”. Leaving his home state Florida, to attend Culver Creek boarding School. Starting off his junior year in a hospital like dorm room with his roommate Chip Martin (aka Colonel), which introduce him to the most “hottest girl” he had ever seen Alaska Young. Alaska caught Miles eyes with her carefree, self determine, and intelligent. Chip and Alaska are always pulling pranks around school, they decided to do a prank to ticked off the engle and the weekend warriors (Aka rich kid) by sending fake report cards to their parents and setting firework to get the engle distracted in order to access his laptop. After that amazing prank they pull, that happiness soon turn to grief. Alaska