Looking For Alaska Characters

Challenges are a part of everyday life, and they change us in different and unexpected ways. The theme challenges create change (within individuals) can be a pivotal part of a text. Characters and people that face challenges have to change their ways of thinking, or even their lives in order to overcome these challenges. The texts Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, Every Day by David Levithan, Looking for Alaska by John Green and Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom all show how challenges create change in not just one individual but multiple people throughout the texts.

The changes of each person's point of view shape the reader's understanding of the miners lives by giving different experiences and perspectives on how the gold rush played out. “The Klondike Gold Rush,” A Woman Who Went to Alaska, and “City of Gold,” are the three different perspectives that were given within the gold rush period.

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.

"Do you even remember the person she actually was? Do you remember how she could be a selfish bitch? That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up." (Pg. 165 John Green)

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.

According to Dictionary.com, the definition of a hero is, “a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character.” In literature, someone who is a hero typically have some serious characteristics. Some characteristics that hero’s often possess include passion, selflessness, honesty, etc. Miles Halter, the protagonist in Looking for Alaska, possesses a plethora of heroic qualities, qualities that will not just help him throughout his journey, but will determine the fate not only the novel, the rest of his life. One heroic quality that Miles retains throughout his quest is memorization.

Throughout the book, Miles Halter shows his different sides. Miles is loyal, loving, and a deep thinker. His different traits surface throughout the book, and I chose a few that seemed the best about him.

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

This excerpt talks about the importance of glaciers in the perspective of Aboriginal Alaskans through their use of descriptive words, oral traditions, indigenous knowledge, as well as their past interactions with European settlers concerning the differences between how each side perceives nature. Where the aboriginal people think nature is an essential part of human life, the Europeans see it as a different entity, separated from humans. This difference, combined with the Little Ice Age which happened at the same time, led to “dramatic social upheaval”, readjustments and realignments of the original people, and the complication of new European migrants on the lives of the aborigines. This division that differentiates between nature and culture usually brings up debates about environmentalism,

Miles Halter, or “Pudge”, is a new student at a boarding school called Culver Creek. In the book there are two parts a “before” and “after”. While at Culver Creek he falls in love with a beautiful girl named Alaska. Miles begins to find out that the more and more he falls in love with her he finds out that her life isn’t a great as he thought it was. He finds out that she is more complex and gets thrown into mischief and lies. When the unthinkable happens Pudge and Chip, the Colonel, must find out what really happened to Alaska the last night they saw her.

Life is an adventure, right? Miles Halter’s is looking for purpose in his boring life. At school, he does not have numerous friends, so decides to start fresh at Culver Creek. There he meets his roommate called Colonel and his friend, Alaska Young, along with others. Alaska is an outgoing, beautiful girl and Pudge is almost immediately drawn to her.

Alaska has a rich history involving many countries. Before the Europeans reached the Alaskan shores, the early settlers were believed to come from the land bridge connected to Asia. Alaska is in fact named after “Alyeska”, the name the Aleut people called it (meaning “The Great Land”). The Alaskan natives, the Aleuts, Yup'ik and Inupiat tribes were in the west and north. The Athabascan were in the center of Alaska, and the Tlingit and Haida Tribes were in the southeast. In order to survive, the tribes would hunt and harvest during the late summer and spring. In the winter, the natives would carve, weave clothes, dance and tell stories. These tribes did not live in igloos, except when they were traveling during an emergency. The Aleut tribes lived in barabaras, a house partly built underground. They used whale ribs or driftwood logs for their door frame. The Athabascans lived in portable tepees made out of caribou skin. The Tlingit and Haida tribes lived in wood houses that have several rooms. These tribes lived in peace until the Europeans came.

Miles "Pudge" Halter is leaving his hometown to attend Culver Creek. Along the way he meets his new roommate, Chip aka "The Colonel", and his friends Takumi and Alaska. He begins to build a relationship with these people he now calls his friends. They have their up and downs, but they do it together. He finds Alaska's love of books, with Pudge's infatuation with famous last words. He also learns that this band of "misfits" also happened to be the prank masters. A tragic event occurs as a result of one of they're great pranks. The event leaves Pudge and the Colonel to pick up the pieces and solve the

I have just finished reading Looking For Alaska by John Green. I really loved this book in its entirety. One of the main reasons that I like this book so much is because some of the quotes are extremely powerful. Green uses a lot of figurative language and I thoroughly enjoy reading and interpreting it. His writing style adds so much to the experience of reading, it captivates you and you are hooked until the very last page.

“That works for me!” Isabel replied. A couple of days later, it was the day that I would meet August Pullman. Once the Pullman’s walked in, I’ll be honest, I was really nervous. When I first saw him, I hesitated than I just smiled at him. After I introduced myself I took him to the office. I showed Auggie Mrs. Garcia, my assistant.