The novel Looking for Alaska is John Green's first novel and it is a coming of age story that is great for teenagers and even adults and that gives readers an empowering message of moving on. The story is told through teenager Miles Halter as he enrolls at a boarding school to try to gain a deeper perspective on life, and was inspired by Green's experiences as a high school student. Miles meets many friends at Culver Creek including Chip, who is his roommate. Chip introduces Miles to Alaska Young and Takumi Hikohito who show them the true meaning of friendship and helps him to finally experience his “Great Perhaps.” This novel is full of adventure, excitement and life lessons.
Miles arrives at Culver Creek Boarding School in Alabama as a
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Alaska planned revenge for the longest time and eventually she finally puts her plans to action. Every year Alaska, Takumi, and the Colonel play a prank on one of the teachers they call “The Eagle”. This time Alaska sets up a pre-prank on the Weekday Warriors. They hacked a computer and sent progress reports home to Weekday Warriors' parents, telling them they were failing in hope to get them into trouble at home. That night, Alaska shares with her friends that she watched her mother die when she was a child. She was having an aneurysm and Alaska being only eight years old did not know what to do and neglected to call 911 to help her mother. Alaska’s dad blames her for her mother's death still to this day. This incident is when the story first gets exciting.
An intense situation happens when Pudge and Alaska make out after they both had too much to drink, even though she has a boyfriend and he has a girlfriend. Pudge does not think about it for a minute because he is truly in love with Alaska. Alaska says that she’s too tired and asked if this could “To be continued?” Alaska leaves for a moment then comes back crying, and says that she has to leave. She tells Pudge and the Colonel she needs help. Pudge and the Colonel help to create a distraction so Alaska can leave campus. Alaska leaves, who knows where, and Pudge did nothing to stop
Fudge is extremely jealous of his new baby sister Tamara, who earns the nickname "Tootsie" from her mother's cute-speak and Grandma's favorite old song. Few days after the family moved to there Princeton called Alex. He is very short and small than other that who is their age. One day, Alex came to peter's house ask for doing business together with peter. And that business was digging the warms from the grounder ground. They need to sell those warms to a woman called Mrs. Muldour. People thought that the reason why she buys warm from anybody is because she need warms to grow the trees or for something that is very important. But Alex and Peter thought that she eat warm, she will make warm jam for the bread, warm ice-cream, warm juice, warm rice and so
Sheri arrived at Lane’s house early that morning to discuss with mixed feelings about what she was about to endure. They left Lane’s house in attempt to discuss it, but for much of the story, Lane A. Dean Jr., the boyfriend, and Sheri Fisher, the girlfriend, sat in silence at a picnic table hoping the other spoke first. While Sheri Fisher was seen as “good people” by
They moved together to the Muck in the Florida Everglades and lived in Tea Cake's Shanty after the death of Joe. Tea Cake and Janie spent all the time they had together. They remained in constant tune with the nature and even went fishing together. This was the type of lifestyle Janie envisioned all her life. All of Janie’s previous relationships was based off of the spouse. Janie was never allowed to be herself and live the life she wanted. Tea Cake let her be herself. He loved her as she was and accepted all she dreamed of. He encouraged her to be what she wanted to be, to follow her goals, her dreams, and her aspirations. Janie had finally found her the man she had always been looking for. She loved him with everything she had. Janie would do anything for Tea Cake. They had the kind of everlasting love that she had hoped for all her life. Thing were going well for the new couple until a bad storm hit and Tea Cake gets bit by a dog trying to save Janie. Tea Cake ultimately get rabies and begins to act so distraught that Janie is forced to kill him. She killed Tea Cake in loving manner and could not bear watch him suffer
The townspeople in Eatonville do not approve of this “affair” once it is brought to the public eye. Janie fell in love with Tea Cake easily but found it hard to trust him. Once Janie and Tea Cake had moved out of Eatonville and into the Everglades, a young chunky girl named Nunkie had been flirting with Tea Cake and eventually started to wrestle with him one day. When Janie found out about this she was obviously furious and went out to find Tea Cake. Janie says, “You done hurt mah heart, now you come wid uh lie tuh bruise mah ears!”
As time goes by, Nunkie grows braver and is always flirting and finding a reason to touch Tea Cake. One day Janie can’t find Nunkie and Tea Cake. She finds them in a patch of sugar cane, play-fighting on the ground. Janie confronts Tea Cake and he tries to explain that Nunkie stole his work tickets and make him wrestle her to get them back. Janie lunges at Nunkie, attempting to grab her, but she runs away behind some sugar cane, because Nunkie had no intention of being caught. Once the couple returns home, Janie attempts to hit Tea Cake. She them and accuses him of messing around with Nunkie. Soon, her wild rage becomes wild passion. The next morning the laugh about this whole incident with
After a while, she falls in love with a much younger man named Tea Cake. Janie leaves everything behind and moves to the Everglades of Florida. Janie finally has the love that she has longed for, and she and Tea Cake are happy. When a hurricane hits rabid dog attacks Janie, and when Tea Cake tries to save her, he is bitten by the dog and contracts rabies. As a result, he begins to go mad, and he eventually tries to shoot Janie.
Anton catches Patty’s eyes because he is the only one who can speak english out of all of the guys. When Patty helps Anton pick a pencil sharpener, they strike out a conversation and he ends up buying a faux diamond pin. When summer came Patty spent her time working on setting up her hideout since all of her friends had gone out of town. One night when she was at her hideout she saw Anton running away along the railroad tracks because he had escaped prison, so she offered him her hideout and he accepts. Anton and Patty become good friends, she takes him food everyday and they talk about everything.
This willingness to not let what happened to her define her. She matures with the help of her coach and finds her own way. Even with the toxic relationship with her parents. Patty doesn’t use it as an excuse to hold her back. Event the reaction that comes out of her parents isn't very supportive “ forget about it move on“(14).
Like you had some monopoly on that.” (Green 184). At first, Alaska’s reasons for leaving were very unclear to even her closest friends. With some digging, they uncovered and began to understand why she was so upset. Before Alaska left, she asked Colonel and Pudge to distract the Eagle so she could leave and clear her head.
Miles and Lara were in a relationship before Alaska’s death, but Miles was never 100 percent committed to their relationship as he was in love with Alaska. After the death of Alaska, Lara comes around to Miles’s dorm room to ask if he knew what caused the crash. He half tells the truth but Lara still sticks by her side, “”I'll be een my room eef you want to come by. " I did not drop by. I didn't know what to say to her—I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.”
John Green is one of the best romance authors ever, he does a spectacular job incorporating the romance and friendship between Miles, Alaska and the other characters. He incorporates the romance and friendship into the book with a strange love triangle. The romance and friendship effect the events in the novel because Miles becomes optimistic about Alaska’s death, Miles can escape his grief labyrinth, and Miles realizes Alaska won’t love him. John Green wrote this book to relate to the feelings many of us experience and how times can get tough.
After reading the book and being displeased with the ending, he wakes up his parents to rant to them about the book, sometime in the early morning. He appears to be furious over the ending and continues to yell about how terrible he thought the book was. Pat also has violent outbursts as well. One example is when
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.
Miles “Pudge” Halter is a skinny kid from Florida who has a fascination with last words. Pudge left his home and nonevent of a life in search of a great perhaps. His search took him to Culver Creek Boarding School
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?"