How Does Green Use Literary Techniques In Alaska

“‘I’m scared stiff. I used to talk about killing myself’ . . . ‘I don’t want to die now. It ain’t long enough. Sixteen years ain’t long enough. I wouldn’t mind it so much if there wasn’t so much stuff I ain’t done yet and so many things I ain’t seen. It’s not fair.’”

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

Critics would argue that it’s not necessarily a positive perspective, but nonetheless it gets readers to venture out of their mind’s comfort zones. “Looking For Alaska, is a showcase to the raw talent John Green has, the kind of talent that can make you close the crisp last page of a novel and come out as a different person” (The Guardian). Books are supposed to take our imaginations to new and exciting places, so why should we be putting a limitation on what can be said in a novel? According to the United States government, people are allowed to express themselves. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” (Amendment 1). “Looking For Alaska cannot be merely written off as a typical boy-meets-girl love story, because it isn't. It's more of a tale of how love isn't as translucent as it seems” (The Guardian). If people want to be conservative and not venture out of their comfort zones, that’s fine. But people who do want the freedom of expression should be allowed to read such

In A Woman Who Went to Alaska, it takes a differnt perspective of teh Klondike gold rush as to focusing on

Award winning journalist and author, Jon Krakauer, in his book, Into the Wild, analyzes the life of Chris McCandless as well as the events that ensued his death. Krakauer’s purpose is to inform the reader about how and why Chris McCandless decided to embark on a journey into the wilderness of Alaska. He adopts an empathetic tone in order to impart to his readers that Chris McCandless was a very misunderstood young adult.

Yes I think that this book does have a value besides entertainment. It has a value that teaches people about Alaska and the Alaskan life. It adds to my knowledge of people, places and time periods by showing me how hard that it was for people back then who lived in Alaska to make a home and to be able to maintain

It has been said that some find life after death. This stands true for Christopher McCandless, the main protagonist in Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. Into the Wild is journalist Jon Krakauer’s narration of McCandless ditching his life of privilege and hitch hiking around America, until he would eventually trek into the Alaskan Wilderness and lose his life due to starvation. After McCandless is found dead, news of his death sweeps across the nation as his untimely departure faces criticism for being deserved, as McCandless went into the wilderness extremely underprepared. Through this novel, Krakauer brings McCandless’s spirit back to life again as he uses anecdotes, ethos, and aphorisms to convince readers that McCandless’s expedition was not an act of craziness, but an act of a free spirit that many can relate to.

Through at times Krakauer allows his emotions regarding Christopher McCandless to be known, his account of Chris’s journey to Alaska and possible motivations is impartial enough, to allow the reader to form their own opinion on McCandless. Author, and narrator Jon Krakauer, introduces Into the Wild by presenting the circumstances surrounding the death of Christopher McCandless: “In April 1992, a young man from a well off East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters.” (Krakauer, Author’s Note) Jon Krakauer’s introduction, reads like a newspaper article by stating facts.

For just about 114 days Alex Mccandless AKA Chris Mccandless lived in Alaska in an abandoned  bus close to Fairbanks, Alaska. Chris Mccandless gave up all his possessions and went on his quest to survive the harsh terrain and weather of Alaska. An obsession for surviving the intolerable Alaska was what brought him to his starvation death. In the summer of 1992 Mccandless’ body found by Moose hunters just outside the northern boundary of Denali National Park. This story is a novel based on a true story written by Jon Krakauer  titled “ Into the wild” Krakauer writes the novel with true passion, because he could relate to Chris Mccandless through their rough childhood.

In the first Chapter of the book, Jon Krakauer introduces a postcard from Alex to Wayne Westerberg. Although the reader does not exactly know who Westerberg is, it is known that he is someone Alex admires writing to, “I want you to know you’re a great man.” This contrasts with what Alex tells Jim Gallien about not speaking to his family in two years. Gallien, the last person to see Alex alive, felt that the hitchhiker was unprepared for the rigors of the wild and offered him supplies and his phone number in case of an emergency. This epigraph sets up the curiosity about how Alex died, and why he changes his name. Finally, in the postcard Alex knew that his Alaskan journey could endanger his life but he went anyway.

Into the Wild is a critically acclaimed novel chronicling the later years of Chris McCandless’s life, specifically his journey through North America as both a hitchhiker and an adventurer. In 2007, Sean Penn created a film adaptation of this novel, his own interviews, and the novel written by McCandless’s sister. Although both the novel, and screenplay were successful, they were very different in their portrayal of Chris McCandless, as events were depicted differently, casting a different light on Chris, as either a survivalist, or a kind natured adventurist. Author Jon Krakauer describes Chris McCandless’s exploration of the Alaskan wilderness in a biographical novel, in which Krakauer uses anecdotes to help audiences better understand Chris’s experience in the wild. Krakauer describes his

It seems natural to think about novels in terms of dreams or psychoanalytical realities. Like dreams, novels are fictions, inventions of the mind that, though based on reality, are by definition not exactly and literally true. Conversely, dreams may have some truth to tell but like novels their truth must be interpreted before it can be grasped. Such is the case with John Green's young adult novel, Looking for Alaska. It holds many truths that are relevant to young adults, but to extract those lessons, one must first view the plot and characters through a lens of psychoanalytical theory.

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

I chose the novel “Looking for Alaska” by John Green, because I already read a reading sample in my English lessons in Germany from this book and I really liked the style of writing the author used. I also chose this novel, because many of my friends said it was a good book and worth reading, besides the fact, that the book is well-known for some of its quotes (“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane”) and the awards it won (Michael L. Printz Award). The author is also known for his book “The fault in our stars”, which is another one of his four books.

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?"