Rhetorical Analysis Of Looking For Alaska John Green

In “Lost in America” by Douglas McGray, he writes about the need to improve the foreign language policies in schools across America and for students to gain knowledge about counties outside of America in the magazine, Foreign Policy. The author’s intentions are not to attack Americas educational system but to persuade the readers about the problems of the educational system used in America today. He wants the readers to realize that there is a change that needs to take place in the classrooms across America. He does this effectively by using the rhetorical choices antidotes, formal diction, and tone. His audience is geared towards American readers interested on political and cultural issues. I don’t think it’s geared towards students because,

Throughout In Cold Blood Capote goes through the lives of the killers, Dick and Perry. Both convicts released from jail and at first glance seem to have a lot in common, but as the book continues the reader can see that the two characters are in fact very different. To characterize the killers Capote frequently uses flashbacks into their pasts, giving the reader a sense of what their lives were like and why they became who they are. Capote also utilizes detailed descriptions of the men’s appearances, quirks, and habits to characterize the murderers.

The purpose for Truman Capote's writing of his book, In Cold Blood was to take literary definitions to a whole new level. He used them in ways that people were able to relate to them personally. He did this by using several different types of literary devices. Nancy's diary for instance, is used to symbolize the impossible future that will never happen for her. The purpose of Nancy's diary is for her to collect all of the things that she had gone through each day, so that someday, when things were looking up for her, she would be able to go back and read all of the hard times that she had once gone through. This never happens, as we know, due to her death. But coincidentally, the last entry that Nancy ever makes, sadly, is about how she had yet another boring, uneventful day, but she also involuntarily wrote about how when you have no life, and no hope, that even the last night of your life, no future is boring. Capote's clever thought out analogy for Nancy's consisted of something that many adults are able to

Ex. 1: In the third chapter of the novel, where Krakauer describes McCandless’s relationship with Wayne Westerberg, he discusses Chris McCandless’s family and education in brief. Specifically, Krakauer mentions, “In May 1990, Chris graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, … and had distinguished himself as a history and anthropology major with a 3.72 grade-point average” (Krakauer 20). This presents a side of Chris that appeals to people’s logos and makes them think. The main question that pops into mind is, “how could such a smart kid make such a dumb mistake?” This intrigue keeps the reader immersed in the book,

Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, describes the adventure of Christopher McCandless, a young man that ventured into the wilderness of Alaska hoping to find himself and the meaning of life. He undergoes his dangerous journey because he was persuade by of writers like Henry D. Thoreau, who believe it is was best to get farther away from the mainstreams of life. McCandless’ wild adventure was supposed to lead him towards personal growth but instead resulted in his death caused by his unpreparedness towards the atrocity nature.

Throughout the novel, “The Kite Runner,” by Khaled Hosseini, Amir is haunted by memories of his past. The theme has been, betrayal, loyalty, guilt and honor. The tone throughout is confessional. Amir the main character, is constantly troubled by his memory of Hassan’s rape and believes “he became what [he] is today at the age of 12,” because of his own cowardice at not stopping Hassan from being raped. After Hassan’s rape, Amir spends the rest of his life trying to redeem himself for his betrayal of his loyal friend. The rape leads Amir to his final quest for redemption when he is told “there is a way to be good again.” The climax of “The Kite Runner” is when Amir seeks to rectify the wrong he did to Hassan and finally finds Hassan’s son, Sohrab.

John Michael Green was born on the 24th of August, 1977 in Indianapolis. He attended Indian Springs School outside Birmingham, Alabama the latter he used to set the scene of his first novel, Looking for Alaska. John graduated from Kenyon College in 2000, with a double major of Religious Studies and English. After graduating from college, Green worked at the National Children's college where his experiences with children with life-threatening diseases inspired him to write the book The Fault in Our Stars.

“Francois Rabelais. He was this poet. And his last words were ‘I go to seek a Great Perhaps.’ That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.” (Green) “Looking for Alaska”, by John Green, is a novel about a boy named Miles “Pudge” Halter, who is done with his safe life at home and heads off to the crazy world of Culver Creek Boarding School to seek his “Great Perhaps”. His life changes drastically, and is anything but boring and safe; because down the hall is Alaska Young, the gorgeous, clever and utterly fascinating girl, who is an event herself. She steals Pudge’s heart and pulls him into her world, and launches him into the Great Perhaps. Sometimes we get too caught up searching for a solution

Once I arrived in Phoenix, the airport looked different and elegant. However, when the intercom came on, it announced my flight to Alaska was moved to a different terminal and is now boarding early. Rushing in fear to the other side of the airport, I was too afraid to miss my flight and being stranded in a state I never been in. Five minutes later, I arrived at my terminal just in time and boarded the plane. Once we took off I was getting hungry. I decided to look at the menu to eat some dinner since it was a six hour flight to Alaska. I ordered and got my cash out to the guy serving my dinner, until he rejected and says, “Sorry Mrs., we take cards now.” Too hungry, to sleep I arrive in Anchorage, Alaska six hours later. I was greeted by my

John Green is one of America’s most famous modern-day authors known for his works such as Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars. Also famous for YouTube videos, Green is well-known for his educational online posts. He was one of the 100 most influential people in the world, according to Time magazine. Green won numerous awards for his writings including the Michael L. Printz Award with Looking for Alaska and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize under the category of the Innovators Award. Along with his brother, Hank Green, John launched the charity project, Project for Awesome in which YouTube users take two days to create videos for charities of their choosing, and they raised $483,446 in 2007 and $869,291 in 2013. Green is by far one of todays' most recognized and accomplished authors.

In the book looking for Alaska there are many themes to this book for example what people have seen is love, friendship, suffering and the meaning of life.

Looking for Alaska is a realistic fiction book that was written by John Green. This emotional story has many themes, a few being friendship, intimacy, and mortality. This novel is about a sixteen-year-old boy, Miles Halter, commonly called Pudge, who leaves his home in Florida to go to a boarding school. He finds his best friends, Alaska Young, Chip Martin, frequently called “The Colonel”, Takumi Hikohito, and Lara Buterskaya. Pudge falls in love with Alaska, then has to learn to deal with her being gone, forever.

Looking for Alaska by John Green, is about a boy name Mile who is from Florida and goes to a boarding school in Alabama on adventure to experience what life is and what the world around him is about. His roommate whose name Chip, also known as the Colonel, shows him around Culver Creek and meets all the friends who hangs out with throughout the book. On the final night on part 1 Alaska gets in a car accident and dies on the scene immediately. Police blame the cause of death due to the high levels of alcohol. Part 2 of the book leaves Alaska friends mysterious and acting different towards one another especially Miles. It’s a mystery that they solve and do a big prank in honor of Alaska. Miles final paper for religion is on the life of his Friends and him.

I think if if the author, John Green, had changed Alaska’s character the book would have a different storyline it would change the whole book, Alaska kept all her friends together and made them laugh and cry and do wild things, that’s what everybody loved most about Alaska in the book. After Alaska died everybody had changed because they didn’t have as many laughs, adventures as they did before.

I read Looking for Alaska over the summer. It was written by John Green and published in 2005. The book is about a boy named Miles Halter, nicknamed Pudge. He grew up in Florida and wasn’t very popular. He decides he isn’t about that life anymore so he moves schools to Culver Creek. He meets new people and embark on many new adventures. His group of friends include Alaska Young, Colonel (real name Chip Martin) and Takumi. They are always seem to be doing something foolish, like drinking or smoking. I think John Green really wants the readers to connect emotionally to what the characters are feeling. I think he wants to teach a lesson and in this book he is sort of telling people what not to do but at the same time what to do.