Looking for Alaska, by John Green, is a teen fiction novel about a boy named Miles. He attends Culver Creek Boarding School, and is immediately included into his roommate’s friend group which consists of Takumi, Lara, The Colonel, and the mysterious Alaska Young (Goggins 1). Over time, he falls in love with Alaska Young, who intends to seek revenge on the Weekday Warriors who had dumped Miles into a river. Alaska, being the queen of pranks, created, and successfully followed-through with the prank
In the book Looking for Alaska by John Green, the main character Miles transfers to a boarding school where he meets new people and has many new experiences. One of the people that he meets is a girl named Alaska, who leaves quite an impression on him. In the book Alaska later dies, and it is argued whether it an accident or if she committed suicide. Based on all of the information John Green gives us about her death I say that Alaska committed suicide. In the beginning while learning about
“Looking for Alaska” was John Green's first novel written for young adults in the year 2005. The following year it won Printz award and became a bestseller. Green’s inspiration for the novel came from his own high school experiences at a boarding school. Green was able to implicate his own high school experiences and observation of what it was like at boarding school into the main characters life story. In an interview with John Green he explains that “ while the novel is fictional, the setting is
2008 PSYCHOANALYTIC ANALYSIS OF LOOKING FOR ALASKA 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 challenges him. Looking for this, Miles goes to Culver Creek boarding school, where he finds his perhaps in a girl named Alaska Young, and this is where the book Looking for Alaska’s story begins to unfold its intricate layers of narrative. Though it is possible for a middle schooler to read this book, themes such as intimacy, suffering, and closure resound
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
stress as well as transitioning from childhood to adulthood. The effects of these mental burdens can be seen in Looking for Alaska by John Green. Though several characters show traits connected to depression, these characteristics are seen more clearly the narrator’s love interest, Alaska. The book
Looking for Alaska Character Sketch Miles halter is the main character in John Green’s Looking for Alaska. Miles is a teenage character who lived a so called “Minor Life,” in Florida, where he was born and raised. The story begins a week before Miles sets off to attend Culver Creek, a boarding school in Alabama that his father, uncle’s and cousins on his dad’s side had all attended. Ironically nicknamed Pudge, due to the fact that he can be physically described as lanky. “ The small bathroom contained
John Green, New York Times best-selling author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, is one of the most influential fiction writers of the modern day. Green received the Printz Award in 2006 for his debut novel, Looking for Alaska and was recognized by Time magazine in 2014 as one of The 100 Most Influential People In The World. Green’s works appeal mainly to young adult readers, as most of them feature teenage romance. Many readers of Green’s works relate to the characters and the storyline
he had landed in Bullhead City, Arizona.” (pg.39) When Callarman says “ He has no common sense he has no business going to Alaska...” McCandless had every right to go to Alaska. He didn’t want his parents to know where he was going, because he was of age and he doesn’t have to everything by his parents. That's why he changed his name. He wanted to start over by going to Alaska and learning new things along the way. You learn from your mistakes, that's what makes us human. McCandless couldn’t live