John Green: Looking For Alaska And The Fault In Our Stars

Despite his inexperience at living off the land, Chris Mccandless managed to survive in the Alaskan wilderness for a time. His adventures across the United States contributed to honing his skills at surviving with inadequate supplies, little money, and few essential tools. Unfortunately This was not enough, and his inexperience on the finer points of outdoor living and general knowledge of particular subjects proved to create more challenges, and finally this inexperience killed him. Particularly, with his successful kill of a moose we see a perfect example of his ignorance, “Then on June 9, he bagged the biggest prize of all: “MOOSE!” (166.) His tendency to brashly tackle everything head on with will and determination ultimately led to his demise, “Overjoyed, the proud hunter took a photograph of himself kneeling over his trophy, rifle triumphantly overhead, his features distorted in a rictus of ecstasy and amazement.” (166.)

In Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer tells the story of Chris McCandless, a man who was born in rich family. McCandless allowed his thoughts to guide him in a way that lead him to an awful death. His parents tried to set him up for an amazing future, they even gave him money for his collage. But Chris took this promising future and turned it into journey filled with adventures and excitement. Alex is often seen as a sensitive person, and that explains why he left his parents for a stupid argument. He was not a hero, or a fool. He was following his beliefs in order to shift the way his life is going, and he wasn’t influenced by anything in his life, such as his friends, or his college degree and his family. “At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a

Normality has become an unattainable luxury due to the perpetually shift societal norms. Since normality is illusive impervious no one is normal, yet everyone is constantly manipulating themselves in an attempt to achieve ordinariness: those who abnormal, even in the slightest ways, are alienated or distanced from the conforming majority. Christopher McCandless, the main character of Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, is among the group labeled as “different”. McCandless may seem irregular, he is far from it. Christopher McCandless, through his passion for learning, search for a life of fulfilment, and his eagerness for success, is an unrecognized normal person.

In his novel, The Fault in Our Stars, John Green describes the hardships, endless love, and a tragedy, that two teenagers must push through to find their forever. Hazel Lancaster, an intelligent, aware, and selfless young girl, has struggled with cancer since the early age of thirteen. Augustus Waters, a smart, metaphor loving, cancer stricken kid, falls completely in love with Hazel Grace, but a great misfortune cuts their time together short. “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities (Green, 260).” Both Hazel and Gus learn to appreciate the time they spend together and make their small infinity one to remember. This novel is based off of a girl by the name of Esther Earl, she and Green met at a Harry Potter convention and Green thought her story would be an amazing way to spread the word about this dreadful disease. Green’s purpose of this novel is to bring awareness of the horrible disease called cancer and how it not only affects the patents life, but others as well. Since this book is narrated by Hazel, it has a tone of being very frank, Hazel tells it like it is and does not sugar coat anything with the fear that if she does she will hurt someone even more. With the use of ethos, logos, and pathos, Green appeals to his audience of young people who may not realize how extremely well off they are and inspire the people who are struggling to find themselves.

After reading the excerpt from Looking for Alaska by John Green it is evident that the speaker is an extremely introverted individual who feels indifferent towards his guests. He mentions how he could “feel their pity”, but then goes on to say that “they needed more pity than I did”. This implies that although the speaker is most certainly an introvert he does not feel the need to make acquaintances with others. He does not have any desire of becoming friends with people who only speak to him out of pure pity. The speaker also mentions how the dip and chips were “intended for my imaginary friends”, which shows that he does not usually expect company any ways. The fact that his friends are “imaginary” clearly shows that he never had any friends

Chris McCandless was a very courageous, outgoing, and confident young man. He was very sure of himself and what he wanted to do, yet that’s what he was looking for out in the treacherous expanse of Alaska. In the captivating novel Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, the author tells a riveting and mysterious story of a young man who drops everything and heads out into the wilderness to find peace with the world and himself.

In the book Looking For Alaska by John Green, we learn about a quiet and very shy going to his graduation party with only two friends from high school. The young man's name is Miles halter and he is leaving for prep school at Culver Creek Preparatory School. This young man seems to have a personality that's very shy and antisocial. It even says in the book “Said cavalry consisted of exactly two people: Marie Lawson, a tiny blonde with rectangular glasses, and her chunky (to put it charitably) boyfriend, Will. (Green 1)” What this shows is that Miles doesn't like to do many extracurricular activities and is very shy in school. The point when he decides to not become shy and step out of his shell is when he decides to smoke a cigarette. In

Jon Krauker wrote the book Into The Wild, about a boy who wanted to go to Alaska, and Sean Penn made a film about the book. The book and film talk about a boy named Christopher McCandless who graduated from Emory University. Instead of taking on a successful career, he goes on a journey to find himself by being one with nature. He dreams to go to Alaska because he wanted to get away from all the materialistic things that his parents cared so much about. He grew sick overtime because he ate some poisonous berries and he passed away in the van that he found in the middle of nowhere. Two weeks later, hunters found the van and his corpse.

I made it. All these years of working and gaining experience of living as a leather tramp have paid off. I’ve made it to Alaska. I found a bus here about two miles into the main road and it's where I plan to reside for the remainder of my time here in the wild. My Alaskan Odyssey is in motion, all of the tramping around and hitchhiking has helped bring me here. I got a place to stay and with everyday hunting, it is easier to find food than the day before. My biggest score yet was a

Into the Wild, a book by Jon Krauker and a film by Sean Penn, features the journey of Christopher McCandless, the son of wealthy parents who graduates from Emory University as a top student and athlete. However, instead of embarking on a prestigious and profitable career, he chooses to give his savings to charity, rid himself of his possessions, and set out on a journey to the Alaskan wilderness.

John Kraukauer is an American author who has written many books. Most of which are about the outdoors and mountain climbing. Krakauer wrote the non-fiction book “Into the Wild” in 1996. He was extremely fond of the Chris McCandless story, a 24 year old who died in the wild because he himself relates to him. Kraukauer went to great lengths to write the book. Krakauer’s goals for writing this novel were to uncover the true story behind Chris to readers, and shed light on Chris’s actions.

World War II was a very large war spanning the entire globe. It even reached American soil in the remote Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska in the territory of Alaska. Majority of Americans do not know about this and even many Alaskans do not know about this. Alaska’s role in World War II caused the territory to be thrown into the centerstage which made statehood a very real possibility.

On the flip side, Looking for Alaska, was the first novel ever written by American Author John Green. Published on the third of March 3, 2005, Looking for Alaska is a wild, complex, and obscure coming of age, coming of friendship, coming of faith, and coming of great perhapsness and coming of something story.

Who I researched for my project is John Green. What I learned about him was that he wrote the Fault in Our Stars based on a girl who died of cancer, so John Green wanted share to the people about her in his book Fault in Our Stars. So now for what I learned interesting about John Green is about what the Fault in Our Stars was based on.

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?"