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Themes Of Looking For Alaska

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Looking For Alaska
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.
The most developed characters in the story are Pudge, Alaska, and Chip. Pudge is a junior in high school, as are the rest of the group. He is dedicated to school, yet loves to spend time breaking the rules with his friends.He is very scatterbrained when it comes to his emotions, especially about Alaska, and even more so when Alaska passes away. He is obsessed with last words and memorizes the last words of the people in every biography he has ever read, which is an abundance. He states the words, “I know so many last words, but I will never know hers.” (142 Green). Alaska Young is a beautiful girl, who attracts many boys from her looks and from her mysterious, complex, and outgoing personality. She is always trying to figure out how to get out of this labyrinth of suffering. Alaska loves to smoke cigarettes, drink strawberry wine, and prank people. She does these things so much that she gets the rest of the group involved in her activities.

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