Summary Of ' Looking For Alaska ' By John Green

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

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

After reading the excerpt from Looking for Alaska by John Green it is evident that the speaker is an extremely introverted individual who feels indifferent towards his guests. He mentions how he could “feel their pity”, but then goes on to say that “they needed more pity than I did”. This implies that although the speaker is most certainly an introvert he does not feel the need to make acquaintances with others. He does not have any desire of becoming friends with people who only speak to him out of pure pity. The speaker also mentions how the dip and chips were “intended for my imaginary friends”, which shows that he does not usually expect company any ways. The fact that his friends are “imaginary” clearly shows that he never had any friends

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

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

Alaska. The word conjures images of majestic mountains, deep-blue glaciers, adventure, and quite possibly the most extreme and rugged place on Earth. My family spent one of the greatest weeks of our lives there this past summer.

his critique is being done on the article titled “Experiences of Alaskan Parents with Children Hospitalized for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Treatment.” It was written in 2013 and published it the Journal of Pediatric Nursing. The purpose of this critique is to address the usefulness of this research and to evaluate its strengths and weaknesses. This article is presented clearly and well organized. The purpose and background are clearly stated. Some weaknesses noted in the article is small population sampled, only sampling six and the lack of detail about the data collection and analysis.

Not many people have heard about the Japanese Invasion of Alaska in the summer of 1942, well that’s because it was virtually erased from American history and no one would talk about it for decades. The little known piece of American history is told the perspectives of Naval officers and Native Civilians who are taken in as war captives in the remote area of the Aleutian Islands just 200 miles of the nearest point of Alaska. The book starts out with a group of U.S. code crackers that would intercept a message from the Japanese about an attack. They would turn in the evidence to Admiral Chester William Nimitz who would later pull the plug on all operations of both islands, and order all Civilians to evacuate the Islands. Throughout the book the

Pudge copes with the labyrinth by trying to find a “Great Perhaps.” At his home in Florida, Pudge thought he was suffering, since he had no friends and thought no one cared he wanted to change his life. Pudge thought that Culver creek was his great perhaps. Since his dad went there and it was a great

In 1942, fifteen thousand American soldiers and civilian laborers poured into Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon to construct a highway stretching from mainland United States to Alaska. In doing so, they had to overcome obstacles of climate, terrain, and manpower (see Figure 1). The construction of the Alaska Highway serves an enlightening episode where Canadian and American interest in northern development and continental defense became intertwined. The continental projects in the North-west, including the Alaska Highway, North-West Staging route, and the CANOL pipeline marked a new period in Canadian-American relations. There has been a tendency in the historiography to over-emphasize the threat that the American presence on Canadian

It seems natural to think about novels in terms of dreams or psychoanalytical realities. Like dreams, novels are fictions, inventions of the mind that, though based on reality, are by definition not exactly and literally true. Conversely, dreams may have some truth to tell but like novels their truth must be interpreted before it can be grasped. Such is the case with John Green's young adult novel, Looking for Alaska. It holds many truths that are relevant to young adults, but to extract those lessons, one must first view the plot and characters through a lens of psychoanalytical theory.

Alaska is my home. I’ve never known anything else, so when deciding on a college, staying instate was emotionally and financially viable. I chose the University of Alaska Fairbanks because it was the strongest science schools out of the UA system and the administration awarded me a slew of scholarships just as enticing as the freedom the interior of Alaska offered. Figuring the interior of Alaska would be a welcome change to the lush rainforest of my hometown Juneau, I was jazzed to continue learning without falling into debt.

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

Looking for Alaska is the story of a group of teens who attend a boarding school just outside of Birmingham, Alabama. The story begins when Miles “Pudge” Halter chooses to leave his mundane life in Florida behind in order to seek a great perhaps. In search of his great perhaps Pudge finds himself at Culver Creek Boarding School, where he meets Chip “The Colonel” Martin and Alaska Young. They introduce Pudge to the ways of the school, pranking, smoking, and drinking. Pudge develops a crush on Alaska, and the two flirt often but never do anything because Alaska has a boyfriend. Alaska introduces Pudge to the labyrinth, the maze of life in which we are all lost. Alaska struggles with the question of how we get out of our labyrinth; Pudge and the Colonel struggle with the question of how you forgive someone for getting out of the labyrinth and what happens once you’re

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?"