Looking For Alaska By John Green

There are an infinite amount of unique responses to the question “What is the meaning of life?”. However, the majority of people will agree that the true meaning of life is to find happiness and what is really important to one’s self. In Jon Krakauer’s, Into The Wild, Chris McCandless conveys this idealism through his life’s journey as he bravely defies all limitations. Chris McCandless isolates himself from society in his Alaskan Odyssey as a way to defy accepted expectations and to begin discovering the meanings of life without any corrupted influences.

The film is set in the year 1959 in a Vermont boarding school named Welton Academy. This academy is a very strict all boys school that demands the most out of every student so that they are completely ready for university. The term that this takes place in welcomes a new English teacher, Mr. John Keating who attended Welton himself, and follows the transfer student Todd Anderson whose brother was one of Welton’s finest students. Todd’s roommate is Neil Perry, who comes from a middle-class family that made multiple sacrifices to put him into Welton. Neil’s father is extremely strict with his son and dictates his schooling and extracurricular activities. Friends of Neil, and later Todd, include Charlie Dalton the rambunctious one, Knox Overstreet the romantic, the very smart ones Steven Meeks and Richard Cameron, and Gerald Pitts. The movie follows the seven friends through the school term starting with how strict and very stressful the courses and teachers are then showing the drastic difference of Mr. Keating. The movie remains on the lives of the boys, mainly focusing on Keating’s class and how he wishes for his students to become free thinkers which leads to many different issues with the friends.

The book begins by revealing the narrator, an aged Gene, visiting the Devon school, setting the location and general mood of the story. As Gene returns back to the grounds of Devon school, he notices that almost nothing had changed:

Setting: From the information this book has given me, I believe that this book takes place in present time, Although there are some future characteristics I believe that this book is a mix between realistic fiction and science fiction. The main place with this book takes place is in the school itself. Except at the ending, for they escape the school.

The setting of the book begins at a summer camp in Prescott, Arizona called Box Canyon Boys Camp. This setting is important and adds meaning to the story because if it did not take place at the summer camp none of the main characters would have met each other, and the book would take place somewhere else.

Have you ever ran a stop sign on purpose? Have you ever ran a red light when no one was around? People break society's rules all the time on purpose, but why do they break them?

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

Pudge liked staying alone in his house, reading biographies, and keeping quiet. After Pudge met and fell in love with Alaska, he changed. Before Pudge had gone to Culver Creek and met Alaska, Pudge was significantly different, Pudge thinks to himself,“Although I was more or less forced to invite all my ‘school friends’... I had kept my popularity secret from her [Pudge’s mom] all these years.”

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

Looking For Alaska is a dynamic novel which was published in 2005 by Dutton Books, and is written by world famous John Green. The story which John Green tells is about a group of intelligent but lost teenagers, who are freshmen in Culver Creek Boarding School. The story revolves around Alaska Young, Miles "Pudge" Halter and Chip "Cornel" Martins. These teens are contrary to shallow, more or less opposite; and their thoughts are as deep as the Mariana Trench. Their complicated way of looking at life, seeking simplicity and grasp in a complex world eventually hurts them.

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.

Pudge is the main character of this novel written by John Green. He is a very unpopular teen in his public school in Florida, and he does not know his true identity. Pudge is an only child who does not have a well established relationship with his parents or anyone of that matter. He is very tall, skinny, no muscle tone, dark, thick hair, and pale white skin from never going outside. His favorite hobby is to read the last words of famous or infamous people, and he scopes his father's library out for these last words. Pudge decides he wants to attend a private school in Northern Florida, and this is where he meets his closest friends. Within this novel his main goal is to find the "Great Perhaps," and along this journey he falls in love with a girl named Alice Walker. What he does not realize until it iis too late was that Alice is his "Great Perhaps." Pudge ahieves his goal and helps his classmates achieve a sense of familiarity within themselves.

Miles Halter is the epitome of the indie teenage boy trope. His obsession with famous last words, and finding his "Great Perhaps"(François Rabelais,poet) did not belong in his boring hometown. As he leaves home to the unhinged world of Culver Creek Boarding school, he finally gets a taste of life. Because of the ever so cliché Alaska Young is down the hall.

Miles “Pudge” Halter is a skinny kid from Florida who has a fascination with last words. Pudge left his home and nonevent of a life in search of a great perhaps. His search took him to Culver Creek Boarding School

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?"