John Green Labyrinth

In Rick Riordan’s Battle of the Labyrinth, the characters show on multiple occasions that it’s always possible to turn to friends, including the unlikely ones, during trying times. The theme is shown a great deal, for example, when Percy turns to an unlikely ally to help him and his friends defeat the Titans. “We’ve got a problem. And we need your help,” (Riordan page 247). When he asks Rachel to help him find the way through the Labyrinth, he’s showing that desperate times call for desperate measures, and he needs her support and friendship regardless of what his other friends might think of her. Another situation where the theme is evident is when Percy’s best friend, Annabeth is angry at him for not speaking to her. “Annabeth was studying

Mary Wroth alludes to mythology in her sonnet “In This Strange Labyrinth” to describe a woman’s confused struggle with love. The speaker of the poem is a woman stuck in a labyrinth, alluding to the original myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. The suggestion that love is not perfect and in fact painful was a revolutionary thing for a woman to write about in the Renaissance. Wroth uses the poem’s title and its relation to the myth, symbolism and poem structure to communicate her message about the tortures of love.

Sally began the story. She told Paul about her first lover, how they had met at Montauk, and what happened to him. Then Annabeth took over, and told Paul about the Greek gods and goddesses, and that they followed Western Civilization and they were still very much alive. She also told him about demigods' ADHD and dyslexia, their battlefield reflexes and how they could all speak Ancient Greek fluently, including not all mortals being able to see anything because of the Mist. Finally, Percy took over, and told Paul about Camp Half-Blood, discovering who his father was, and all of his adventures and quests, up until this last summer, with the Labyrinth.

In Guillermo del Toro’s Pans Labyrinth, Ofelia must deal with her new step-father and ailing mother, while exploring a magical world. Ofelia explores her new home in Falangist-held Spain with her stepfather, an evil Capitan, and her pregnant mother. In an overgrown labyrinth, she encounters a magical faun who believes she is a lost princess and aids her in a journey to prove herself. The trials Ofelia faces are comparable to the trials Odysseus faces before he can return to Ithaca. Even though Pans Labyrinth is not a traditional Greek or Roman myth, the main character, Ofelia, must pass through many heroic trials before she reaches the end, similar to Odysseus in The Odyssey.

He came to Culver Creek in search of "The Great Perhaps" which were François Rabelais (The great poet, 1483-1553) last words; Miles quoted "Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps." He eventually got his great perhaps in the form of Alaska Young when he falls deeply in love for her. He had his own theory of escaping the labyrinth in the beginning when he came to Culver Creek. “Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. But that only led to a lonely life accompanied by the last words of the already dead, so I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.” But the company of Alaska and Chip transformed him from an obedient teen to a rebellion who drinks alcohol and smokes cigarettes. His life took a great turn again when Alaska dies and she leaves him high and dry; trying to find the reason she died and the guilt of not making any effort whatsoever to change the outcome of the night she died in a tragic accident. But this death of Alaska changes his views about life and labyrinth that he experienced after the

The second source provides great insight on Guillermo del Toro’s Pan Labyrinth (2006). The author analyzes the historical aspect of the movie, regarding the Spanish civil war, emergence of the Nationalist regime, and the aftermath of the collapse of the Republicans. What’s interesting about this Alvaro’s analyzation is his belief that the movie mainly focuses on the aftermath of the war- a situation many have forgotten or fail to bring up. The movie makes the war appear as if it’s going on during the film, but the intertwining of Ofelia’s fantasy, which is not represented as two different realms, but one cohesive, cause the author to believe the movie rests on the aftermath of the Civil War. The journal continues to address how the camera work

For my part I think I held him too accountable. After finishing this biography, I truly believe that he was living his nature. His journey to Alaska was necessary for him. And maybe, like the

McCandless was a reckless idiot who perished out of arrogance and stupidity. He refused most people who tried to help him and was arrogant to believe that he could survive by himself in Alaska. He left his loving family behind without a second glance and caused them great turmoil.

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.

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.

Page 151: The quote shows the consequence death may have on people, for here Chip or the Colonel is morally affected of Alaska Young’s death. Therefore, he is also physically attended since Miles says by using a simile that his eyes were green as a “still-breathing ghost”. The colonel therefore looks dead because he is

Most children are exposed to fairy tales and fantasies at a very young age. Whether these fictional stories are from Disney, the public library or even cartoons on cable television, every child remembers the pleasurable escape that comes from relishing in these stories. It is extensively agreed upon that children are expected to have a vast imagination, however, the question remains as to what warrants the cut off age from when it is no longer acceptable to spend your days fantasizing about different realities and continuously having your nose stuck in a book. According to The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, “Particularly for the 3–5 yr old child, imagination represents a special mode of mental functioning that allows expansion of the internal object world, increasingly complex relationships with others, and creation of self-defining fantasies characteristic of the oedipal phase. The

He expresses how he knows this because he is able to say that he still believes in a place without suffering, “So I still believe in the Great Perhaps, and I can believe in it in spite of having lost her [Alaska]. Because I will forget her, yes. The which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and every but herself and her mom in those last moments she spent as a person”(Green 219). At this moment Miles has come to peace with Alaska’s death. He did so by understanding the real meaning of the Great Perhaps and the Labyrinth.

CRACK THUD ¨Throw him in the labyrinth.¨ said the dark voice, And then darkness fell over my memory obliterating it. Ouch geez, Where am I? Who am I? While I was sitting up I rubbed the back of my head to ease some pain from it and a painful flash of my memory returned briefly I remembered A storm, a cursed ruby, and a gang of thieves.

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?"