Summary Of ' Looking For Alaska ' By John Green

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

To begin with, one major theme that continuously played a part throughout the entire book is desire. To many of the characters, it was the one urge that they could never overcome. One

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 theme is mainly developed through the characterization of the narrator, Scout. At the beginning of the novel, Scout is an innocent 6-year-old girl. Because of her innocence, she doesn’t understand the issues that she is

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He was never really the popular guy and is not usually the one for small talk but is mostly into famous peoples last sayings instead. Miles is very scrawny and lanky but very intellectually smart. Chip Martin, The Colonel, is Miles’ best friends but opposite by comparison. He got the name, the Colonel, because he made sure all of Alaska’s pranks were going to work, the mastermind of them. The Colonel is a genius and excels at school but is a very straightforward type of guy. He is very short but muscular and a regular smoker and drinker. Alaska Young is a very beautiful girl but is confusing in many ways. She relies on her impulse and is very spontaneous but can change moods on a dime. Alaska’s mother died when she was younger and Alaska thinks it’s her fault because she didn’t dial 911 and is living with the guilt and regret that consumes her sometimes. She always went to her mothers grave on the anniversary. From this she doesn’t feel any sympathy toward people. Alaska is a very mysterious moody person that is a fascinating character. All of the characters are very vivid and give a lot of background to each of their stories. They are very realistic because there are actually people just like them in the story that I know in real life. It shows that the author did a very good job with the characteristics that they have and are valuable in the

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I think the main conflict in this story is person vs. self. Miles is really looking for and trying to figure himself out through the book, he is looking for the “Great Perhaps”. In the “before” section of the book he is himself. He does not have very many friends and is very unhappy until he get to Culver Creek and gets called Pudge. He works very hard to find himself as the new Pudge. During the “after” section of the book when Alaska dies, he realizes who and what the real Pudge is. He discovers the great and moves on in life. Through the whole book he is not just looking for the Great Perhaps, he is looking for his self identity. Alaska’s death helps him discover both of those goals.

The novel “Looking for Alaska,” is narrated by John Green from the perspective of Miles Halter (A.K.A Pudge). The novel tells a phenomenal story about a boy who is striving to find his individuality in society! He vacates his monotonous life and home in Florida where he is lonesome, and has no friends, to go to a boarding school in Alabama. The focal rationale why Miles wants to leave his home in Florida is to go out and seek “A Great Perhaps.” “The Great Perhaps,” was introduced at the beginning of the storyline by Rabelais’ final words “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” I surmise that Rabelais was denoting to life and death. You see many people are always analyzing during their lifetime “What supervenes after death?” There are a lot of perhaps! Yet Miles doesn’t want to be analogous to those people. He wants to attend Culver Creek to find “A Great Perhaps” so that he doesn’t have to wait until he becomes elderly and is going to die to start seeking “A Great Perhaps.” His family was also aware that he wasn’t going to find it with the likes of Will and Marie who are deemed to be losers at his school.

One way she conveys the theme is when the main character moves from a small town in the south to a big city in the north. When she came back she found out how different the two worlds really where were. How one was segregated and one is not. This shows how she experienced what it is like living is a desegregated place and what felt like normal turned bad. She got older and more experienced so her views changed about her home town.

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

To begin with, one major theme that continuously played a part throughout the entire book is sadness. The main character, Sal, see that sadness is everywhere in America. It occurs to him in his dreams, in the people he meets, and in the places that he goes.

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?"