Looking For Alaska Book Report

“It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?” Indeed, it is true, we all go through times of pain and it can be difficult to escape the clutches of sadness. John Green illustrates the struggle to gain control and acceptance over one’s problems through many of his characters, but mainly through Miles (also referred to as Pudge) in his award winning novel “Looking for Alaska”. Miles encounters many struggles throughout the story and gains a little knowledge, strength, and maturity after conquering each. Through his struggles, he achieves a higher understanding

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.

In novel, Step From Heaven by Na, An and Looking For Alaska by Green, John, two unique characters are introduced. Young Ju from Step From Heaven and Miles or Pudge from Looking For Alaska. These two adolescents have to go through different challenges. As they face adversities, they react in different ways. However, they were able to overcome those obstacles due to the guidance of their characteristics. Additionally, those adversities helped them reveal their real identities. These two characters live different lives but face similar challenges.

Looking For Alaska is a coming of age book about a boy named Miles and his experience during his first year of boarding school. Miles makes new friends and learns that compared to them, he has lived out a rather boring life. He spends the year doing new and wild things with his friends and his not-so-boring dream girl, Alaska Young. When Alaska dies under anomalous circumstances, her friends set out to find out who the girl they thought they knew really was and commemorate her death with the prank of a lifetime, one only Alaska herself could've

You will find Arctic Alaska on the North side of Alaska, it reaches from the border of Canada to the Chukchi Sea. The Arctic ocean makes the region's northern edge, not as many people live in Arctic Alaska. During winter time Arctic Alaska is a very dark place if in barrow the sun will set on November 18th and will not rise again until January 24th. In the middle of these winter months the temperatures can fall all the way to- 50º F in higher latitudes. This can be the lightest and darkest region in all of Alaska. During the summer time their is 24 hours of sunlight a day can melt seas and topsoil, and is the main cause of icebergs breaking The land was earlier inhabited by Alaskan Natives who thrived off of hunting, whaling, and salmon fishing

Alaska is a land of special places, special moments, and special people. Alaska is a land of rare beauty and big distances. Alaska is so rich in natural resources. Alaska is one of the few great expanses of natural land left in the country. Alaska is so big, it covers several climatic and geographical regions.

The novel Looking for Alaska by John Green is told in first person narrative from the point of view of Miles Halter. The story takes place in Alabama on the campus of Culver Creek Preparatory School following the lives of Miles, a 16 year old boy, and his group of friends that consist of the "Colonel", Alaska, and Takumi. As the novel progresses, Miles' innocence slowly unfolds as he faces the pressures of drinking, smoking and Alaska’s death. Miles changes from being an antisocial person to someone who makes an effort to integrate into a new environment. He also transforms from someone who has an ordinary life to a rebellious youth.

AExploring is rough especially through Alaska. The exploring of Alaska’s geography is difficult because snow-ice, traveling by foot and, wild animals.

Pudge’s fascination with Alaska has to do with the fact that she is so different from him. Alaska’s volatility takes Pudge Atchley

Looking for Alaska and It’s kind of a funny story both deal with topics most people would try to avoid, or not talk about. Most of the topics or themes are not that extreme, most of them are things that go on in everyday life for teenagers, in the past and in the modern world. For Looking for Alaska alcohol was a big topic discussed in the novel, The teenagers at Culver Creek drink A lot, But the y don’t just drink for fun, and most of the time it’s innocent use, alcohol in Looking for Alaska is usually goes with trying to break some sort of rules. For Miles drinking was his way of being socially accepted, for the colonel drinking was his way of mourning, but in Alaska’s case alcohol was a way to cope with and soften the pain and guilt that

Alaska is as dangerous as how beautiful it is. The geography of Alaska is difficult to explore and settle because of the cold, difficult to find food, and of the long travels by foot. Someone would have to be really skilled to survive this. Alaska looks beautiful in the out side, but in the inside, its deadly.

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.

My first exposer to Alaskan culture was in elementary school with many native Athabascan tales. Since Anchorage is rich in diversity, I have been exposed to many of the cultures that live in Alaska, not just native Alaskans. To have this level of diversity is so unique and one of the best elements of our community. Academically, I have already completed Alaska Studies and am currently taking Natural Recourse Management to better understand Alaska’s history, geography and the industries that changed the economic development of our state.

How does one simply describe Alaska Young? Alaska is not an average teenager, quite frankly none of the characters are average in John Green’s book, “Looking for Alaska”. The main character, Miles “Pudge” Halter, falls deeply and madly in love with Alaska immediately after meeting her. Alaska is beautiful, spontaneous, and mysterious. Pudge loves Alaska so much that he wants to know everything about her. Alaska always speaks her mind. Alaska cares about a lot of people and ideas. Alaska experienced a terrible childhood, but she still found humor in life. Not many people can do that,and that is what makes Alaska Young so special.

The novel Looking for Alaska by John Green is about the before and after story about Miles Halter aka Pudge, it introduces him by going to a private school called Culver Creek boarding school in Birmingham, Alabama that’s where he dad went when he was his age. He meets Chuck his roommate and Alaska when Alaska sees Pudge for the very first time she immediately decides to name him Pudge because of his skinny figure. He makes friends(Laura and Takumi) and falls in love with Alaska quickly. Pudge is trying to understand Alaska more. During the story, Pudge wants to know who he is. I was looking through Mr.Brubaker’s bookshelf and saw a John Green book and I immediately got it and I’ve never read Looking for Alaska.