Looking For Alaska

The book I chose for my banned book report was Looking for Alaska by John Green. John Green is a 39 year old author who was born on August 24, 1977. He is the author to many popular best-selling novels such as: The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns, An Abundance of Katherines, and of course, Looking for Alaska. Aside from being an author, Green is also a vlogger, producer, writer, editor and actor. He is well known for his YouTube channel CrashCourse, which is an educational series teaching many different school subjects. From research I found that Green wrote this book based off of his own personal similar experiences. According to “John Green (author)." Wikipedia”, Green attended a similar school when he was young and met people very similar

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

John Green’s, Looking For Alaska, is a book about the lives of a group of teenagers and how their experience, alone and together, shape their lives as they grow towards adulthood. The main character, Miles Halter, lives a boring and lonely life. He has no friends and wonders what he is missing and decides to go to boarding school in Culver Creek to try to search for his “Great Perhaps” (5), what lies beyond his known, safe life. The reader follows Miles’ journey as he makes friends, falls in love, takes risks, has fun experiences and deals with immense grief at death of Alaska. Looking for Alaska has been the subject of much debate, controversy and complaints and has been banned numerous times due to the inclusion of sexual content, alcohol

Question 2: Character Description Miles “Pudge” Halter is the first person you meet in Looking for Alaska. He is tall and scrawny hence the irony of his nickname Pudge, given to him by his soon to be good friend the Colonel. Pudge had never had many friends in his hometown but when he moved to Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama he met some new friends that changed his life. He finally stepped out of his box and was smoking cigs and playing pranks and drinking booze, all things him and his parents never would've thought he'd be one to do. Pudge finally had some adventure in his life.

“I may die young, but at least i'll die smart”-Alaska Young (pg. 57 Green). The book I read was Looking for Alaska. The main character in the book is Pudge. Pudge was a new student to Culver Creek Preparatory School. Pudge is obsessed with finding the great perhaps. During the book Pudge is questioned on how to find a way out of this labyrinth. Pudge changes throughout the book facing hardship and finally finding out what the great perhaps is.

Looking For Alaska by John Green is a coming of age story focused on a shy and friendless fifteen-year-old boy named Miles Halter. He leaves his home in Florida to attend Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama, seeking his “Great Perhaps” (Green 5). It is important to note that this novel is written in two parts, before and after. Before, Miles fits in perfect at Culver Creek where he meets his first true friends, Chip “The Colonel” Martin and Alaska Young. His friends help him adjust to life at the boarding school by teaching him to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, and pull pranks with the best of them. Miles begins to fall helplessly

Looking for Alaska by John Green is a young adult fiction. This book is about a young man named Miles Hatler and his group friends. Being born into Bolivars labyrinth these young teens are soon to face the troubles their labyrinth has to bring. Miles was a young man born and raised in Florida, wanting to get a new start and be like his dad Miles moved to Cluver Creek. Where he met a beautiful prankster by the name of Alaska young. Although Miles had no idea that this girl would turn his less from average life upside down.

Reading Looking For Alaska felt like I was getting hundreds and hundreds of pep talks. Miles embarks on many journeys throughout the book. Going to a new school, has his heart broken, has tons of fun, makes friendships that will last a lifetime, and also kills his lungs in the process. It all shows how much he would’ve missed out on if he would’ve stayed the same way that he was in the beginning of the book. It’s easy to stay in your comfort zone and not try new things or do things that scare you. It’s an idea we constantly need to hear. Miles experiences pain and joy throughout but also gains a sense of the world he would’ve missed if he wouldn’t have gone out each time and seized the day. Any day your life can be taken away from you as we

Looking for Alaska follows Miles Halter, the gawky teenager, who lives a boring life and obsesses over famous people's dying words. Miles moves to Culver Creek, a boarding school in Alabama, to follow the last words of François Rabelais and seek his ‘great perhaps.’ At The Creek, he realizes the importance of friendship and loyalty by meeting his bizarre group of friends including, "The Colonel" or Chip Martin his roommate, Takumi, Lara his first girlfriend, and Alaska Young the girl of his dreams. The Colonel nicknames Miles "Pudge" because he is scrawny. Pudge is truly happy because for the first time in his life he has real friends, who smoke, drink, and prank the Weekday Warriors, the rich kids who go home on the weekends. However, one night, The Colonel, Alaska, and Pudge drink and play truth or dare. Pudge and Alaska make out, and several hours after, in the early morning, she screams for The Colonel and Pudge to help her sneak off campus, which they hastily do. Pudge learns about death and mortality the next morning when there is a school assembly, and they learn that Alaska died in a car crash. Everyone is distraught, but no one more so than Pudge, who blames himself for helping her sneak off campus in the state she was is. Pudge and The Colonel isolate themselves and try to discover why she left that night. Eventually, Takumi

Looking for Alaska is a novel about alcohol abuse, love, lust, and death. It is a novel published in 2005 written by Printz award winner John Green. The book explores the effects alcohol and tobacco can have on people’s lives, especially when they’re teenagers. The novel is also mostly about friendship, telling a story about a group of friends and how they deal with a loss in their group. I believe fiction novels should stay in the English curriculum because fiction can warn people about subjects such as alcohol abuse, fiction can show controversial topics in a new light, and also, fiction books can tell stories that emphasize friendship and show how important it is to love one another.

Unexpected tragedies happen to our everyday lives, we sometimes just have to deal with it. In John Green's novel Looking For Alaska, Miles, also known as Pudge immediately grew an affection for Alaska once he moved to a new boarding school. However Alaska got in a terrible car accident leaving her dead. On the path to move on, Pudge understands that in order to move on he needs to learn to forgive himself, not only Alaska.

I’m Miles Halter and I believe that my story, Looking For Alaska, is important and should not be banned in schools across the country. Although my story may have mentions of drugs, sex, and alcohol, the ability to convey an important message is not hindered. Looking For Alaska has relatable characters and dark themes which actually make it a story that should be read by young adults.

Everyone is born into this world with a sense of innocence, completely oblivious to the cruelties of the world. However, as humans grow up and reach early- adulthood, they begin to realize the realities of this world, all that is real and all that is, in fact, a figment of the imagination. As people learn that it is truly impossible to stay hidden from the harsh realities of adulthood for their entire life, they also learn that it is impossible to shield others from these truths as well. They learn that although they may not be able to protect themselves from life’s misfortunes, they must perceiver, move forward, and not hold anyone back in their tracks. Just as all humans eventually learn to accept and move past life’s various misfortunes,

For example, smoking, the kids go to the beach like shoreline and smoke. The time period in which Looking for Alaska takes place is, modern day twenty first century. The setting is very important to the story; the story would not be what it is without these two unique settings. The story is divided into two very important parts, before the accident, and after the accident. 2.

Her mood can change at a moment's notice when the anniversary of her mother’s death approaches. Alaska’s guilt for not taken action and calling 911 as a child when her mother was dying affected her personality and her actions greatly. “She often does not think about the consequences of her actions to the point where it is reckless”. (109) She just makes decisions in the moment and doesn’t weigh the risks.