Dialectical Journal For Alaska

John Green’s, Looking For Alaska, is a book about the lives of a group of teenagers and how their experience, alone and together, shape their lives as they grow towards adulthood. The main character, Miles Halter, lives a boring and lonely life. He has no friends and wonders what he is missing and decides to go to boarding school in Culver Creek to try to search for his “Great Perhaps” (5), what lies beyond his known, safe life. The reader follows Miles’ journey as he makes friends, falls in love, takes risks, has fun experiences and deals with immense grief at death of Alaska. Looking for Alaska has been the subject of much debate, controversy and complaints and has been banned numerous times due to the inclusion of sexual content, alcohol

An important theme in Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening is the desire for some women to abandon their dull lives as only mothers and wives. In other words, solitude. The main character, Edna Pontellier is a woman with such desires. She has two sons with her husband, Leonce Pontellier, whom she would rather not be with. The theme mentioned earlier is seen all throughout the novel, by means of several different symbols, including birds. There are three examples of birds used within the story, two of which in the very first chapter. The story opens with a loud parrot repeating the phrase: ‘Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapriste!” (Chopin 1) This roughly translates to “Go away! Go away! For God’s sake!” These words

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.

Alaskan Bush People has been accused of faking things before and now it turns out that Noah Brown allegedly had a fake date on last week's episode. On last Friday's Alaskan Bush People, Noah went on a date with a gorgeous woman. Radar Online has been able to figure out that this woman happens to be an actress and may have not just been someone interested in dating Noah Brown.

1. A large amount of construction and building work was going on in the city. Unfortunately for the people, construction meant delays, but all for a good end result. “Construction delays elsewhere on the grounds were especially frustrating” (pg 167) Chicago is booming with new buildings and constructions sights everywhere. This quote shows the work of construction that is all over the city.

There were many places throughout the parts of the book I read, where I felt extremely grateful. Two of them were when I was reading from page 11 through page 13, and I stumbled against two things Junior said that struck me. The first part was when Junior said “They (his parents) never got the chance to be anything because nobody paid attention to their dreams”, on page 11. While the second part was when he said, “But we reservation Indians don't get to realise our dreams. We don’t get those chances. Or choices. We’re poor. Thats all we are,” on page 13. While and after reading this I felt extremely fortunate, yet apologetic. I felt extremely fortunate, due to the fact that I was born into family that isn’t a victim of poverty and also because

"Muddy Mississippi." "Ol' Man watercourse." "Proud Mary." Those are other names for it. The Mississippi would possibly could be a national image; it's positively a majorly vital symbol for Huckleberry Finn. It represents freedom and possibility—but conjointly, maybe, the issues of a drifting life.

This passage is ironic due to the way that Okonkwo dies. The “year” that is being referred to is one yam season where the weather was so terrible that even the most experienced and hardworking farmers had terrible yields. It was so terrible that one man took his own life, due to his despair from failure. The trials of this year gave Okonkwo the confidence to face the rest of his life’s adversities with courage: if he had survived one of the worst yam seasons in the history of his village, he could survive anything. It added to his ego, and Okonkwo became a very stubborn and proud man, with a fierce attitude, and he believed that he could solve all his problems through hard work and brute strength. It was these qualities that he developed, however,

Who knew one could kill a messenger and right after take their own life. With the small success Christianity had been brought to its primitive land, I traveled down to the lower Niger and as the days went on I was more disappointed with the reality of each day that was brought upon. I stood watching Okonkwo, a man from the Umuofia clan, rise to protect his surroundings by not letting the messengers through. Okonkwo grabbed his machete and in the blink of an eye the messenger was unconscious, and his body lay on the ground like a butchered animal in a pool of blood. For one second, he was there and then gone quicker than one breath. Aside from the beat of my heart, no muscle would move. He killed one of our own and then acted as a coward, knowing

I exhale a long, frustrated sigh as I look around the old, battered up, brown and decaying café. It was amidst the start of the French Revolution, and circumstances were heating up. Everyone were in a small groups chattering away at nothing in particular as I stand at the slightly raised platform, waiting for the last few representatives to come. I, Pascal Beaumont, was the organizer of the raid that will be held at the Bastille, in Paris, on July 14, 1789. Tomorrow was July 14, 1789, the big day. Such an evil thing to do, some might think, but not in my situation. I was thirsty for revenge, for the blood that belonged to the royalty, for death. That rascal, King Louis XVI would pay for the lives he took from the peasants. They would never

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

We are here! My family and I are at Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska!! I hope that we are able to go kayaking because I hear that that is super fun. I am so excited to be going to the park that was established on December 2, 1980. Another thing that I hoping to see at the park is orca whales, one of the many animals that I have heard that are at the park. Since we are only here for a couple of days, I hope to see as much as I can of the 607,000 acres of land. Right now we are going to go on a hike. So far I have seen a mountain goat, squirrels, and a moose. Tomorrow we are going to go on a boat tour. We were told that it was going to be cold, so we were to dress warm.

In “Looking for Alaska” by John Green, the theme of the book is that sometimes things are better off left as a mystery. Throughout the book, John Green embeds mystery into each chapter by counting down the days before and after Alaska’s death, which the reader doesn’t know until halfway through the book. Miles, the main character in “Looking for Alaska,” has always been inclined to know the meaning of things. He is fascinated by last words, “It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.” (Looking for Alaska, 128) By analyzing last words, Miles was able to interpret what each person was like and what their life looked like.

I enjoyed reading this book for many different qualities. The author clearly expresses very thought-provoking ideas that I cherished. Looking for Alaska included a simple adventure which turned into much more while using a great amount of foreshadowing. In my opinion, this made the book very fascinating and hard to put down. Since I don’t often enjoy realistic fiction, I believe others who do, would absolutely love this book. It by far one of the best realistic fiction books I have ever read. I think that it is very clear that the author gave this book everything he had and it turned out exceptional.

The title is very simple and can cause any reader to think the same thing. Snow according the Merriam Webster Dictionary, the word snow has one main definition. Snow is “the precipitation in the form of small white crystals formed directly from the water vapor of the air at a temperature less than 32 degrees.” In other words, it is the frozen crystals that fall from the sky during the winter season. Just by the title we should be able to tell what the poem will be about, but MacNeice puts a turn on the wording of the poem to catch the reader off guard. This raises the question if MacNeice wanted the poem to be about a snowfall, or does he have a deeper meaning underneath the title? As the poem continues there will be more references at what the poem is about.