Looking For Alaska Coming Of Age

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.

Yes, this book does have a message and it is moral. The main purpose of the author is to tell a story about the Alaskan landscape and about the Alaska experience of a couple who have always wanted a child and when they do have one it dies so they decide to move up to Alaska to start their new life their so that they can forget about their old life. The passage that I am going to use is in Chapter One the Wolverine River, Alaska 1920. “She had imagined that in the Alaska Wilderness silence would be peaceful, like snow falling at night, air filled with promise but no sound, but that was not what she found. Instead, when she swept the plank floor, the broom bristles stitched like some sharp toothed shrew nibbling at her heart. When she washed

“I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.” (pg. 219 John Green) This is one of Pudge’s final thoughts about Alaska after she dies in a car accident. This quote expresses how Pudge copes with her death, wondering about her final moments, her final words.

Julie of the Wolves is a favored classic written by Jean Craighead George. Its genre is said to be a children’s literature and it’s also a book of adventure. Julie of the Wolves is a book about a thirteen-year-old girl named Miyax -also called Julie- who lives in Northern Alaska (Miyax was an Eskimo girl that liked to live by tradition). She lived with her father (Kapugen), for her mother had died of disease. Soon after her mother’s death, Miyax’s father decided they would move to a seal camp (out of grief). She had not gone to school and didn’t plan to. One day, Miyax’s Aunt Martha came to their house arguing that Miyax must come live with her and go to school (she had to go to school by law) and Miyax’s father must go to war. She was forced to leave her beloved father and move to a more modern, American place called Mekoryuk, Alaska. Miyax later is given the opportunity to marry a traditional Eskimo boy, named David, and move in with him and his family (she decides to do so only to do so because it is tradition to marry at such a young age). After a while of living with David and his family, Miyax has had enough trouble and can’t handle the situation anymore (there are a few specific reasons that make her decision to leave final, but I don’t want to spoil too much). She wants to go to San Francisco to meet her pen pal and live with her, so she runs off to the open tundra

Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta is a coming of age novel that discovers the complications every teenager experiences to accomplish he emancipation. It does so by how the main character Josie encounters obstacles such as identity, belonging, cultural diversity and changing relationship that influences her everyday life and future. By thinking back on events that are happening, Josie matures as her personality changes her perception of her general surroundings has the ability to release herself from the pressure society enforces on her.

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.

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.

The Last Frontier-Alaska Ever wanted to visit the largest state in the country of US, welcome to charming state Alaska. Alaska has many gorgeous attractions, wondrous things in it that it is known for, fun historical locations, and fabulous fun facts. But if you think that is it then read on and prepare to be surprised and Amazed!! Super Facts

This book is about a girl named Finley who comes back to her hometown, Williston, every summer. She has a childhood friend named Betty, and Betty was murdered during the summer. All summer, Finley spends her time trying to get the guy who killed her to face the consequences. His name is Calder, he confessed to killing Betty but because it wasn't done properly they couldn’t convict him. Finley does this with another girl, Serena, who was in love with Betty. Finley pursued this mission despite her very close friend, Owen, telling her to give it up. No one talked about Betty, and that made Finley angry and vengeful. Throughout the summer she sets fire to the school, press people for answers, and uses her dad's position as a newspaper reporters to her advantage.

In this essay I will be answering the following question, “How do you plan to contribute to the future of Alaska?” First and foremost, I believe, that I could be of better use to Alaska by equipping myself with knowledge. My mom has always said that, “knowledge is power” and some have said that, knowledge is the key to success.

With its direct connection with the land removed, Native Alaskan society began to fragment alarmingly quickly. The regional corporations’ failure to provide dividends that were adequate enough to allow people to remain comfortably in their local villages, coupled with the influx of Western Capitalistic Culture brought by the new corporations, led an increasing number of Native Alaskans to begin moving from their traditional subsistence lifestyles in rural villages to the comparatively urban cities of Alaska. Native populations in Anchorage alone doubled between 1970 and 1980. There, the newly urban Alaska Natives were forced to seek out work in a comparatively individualistic society. The western corporate values of competition eroded

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,

Summary: Looking for Alaska is the story of a young boy named Miles Halter who leaves his hometown in Florida in order to attend Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama for his junior year. This boy loves reading biographies and especially memorizing last words of famous people. At Culver Creek, he meets new friends such as Chip his roommate also called Colonel, Takumi and Alaska a beautiful young girl with whom he will fall in love but cannot have since she already has a boyfriend named Jake. Unfortunately, under their influence, Miles starts smoking and drinking alcohol. One night after having drank a lot of alcohol, Alaska and Miles start to kiss but do not go further because Alaska

I chose the novel “Looking for Alaska” by John Green, because I already read a reading sample in my English lessons in Germany from this book and I really liked the style of writing the author used. I also chose this novel, because many of my friends said it was a good book and worth reading, besides the fact, that the book is well-known for some of its quotes (“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane”) and the awards it won (Michael L. Printz Award). The author is also known for his book “The fault in our stars”, which is another one of his four books.

To some, teenagers appear to be the same in their attitudes and choices. However, this common stereotype is false. Individuals have various personalities and deal with different struggles mentally and physically. In the book Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter and Chip Martin, the main protagonists, both seem like average teenagers on the surface; but they each have their own unique qualities. Over time they learn more about each other and grow. During the development of their friendship, they see how they differ from each other. Although they may seem like average teenagers on the surface, Miles Halter and Chip Martin are different because of their origin, physical traits, and attitudes.