True Identity In John Green's 'Looking For Alaska'

While many may think Looking For Alaska is about someone’s journey to get to the state of Alaska, John Green uses the title in his novel to display Miles Halter’s journey to seek his “Great Perhaps”. Miles (Pudge) Halter moves from Florida to Culver Creek Boarding School in Alabama, where he meets the stunning and fascinating Alaska Young. From then on, his life is never the same, as he goes on many adventures with Alaska, the Colonel, Takumi, and Lara. But after Alaska gets drunk and storms out of the school, ending up in a fatal car accident, Pudge and his friends try to discover why she had driven out of school that night.

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

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 a dynamic novel which was published in 2005 by Dutton Books, and is written by world famous John Green. The story which John Green tells is about a group of intelligent but lost teenagers, who are freshmen in Culver Creek Boarding School. The story revolves around Alaska Young, Miles "Pudge" Halter and Chip "Cornel" Martins. These teens are contrary to shallow, more or less opposite; and their thoughts are as deep as the Mariana Trench. Their complicated way of looking at life, seeking simplicity and grasp in a complex world eventually hurts them.

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?"

In this novel, John Green is portraying the account of a sixteen-year-old boy named Miles Halter as he commences boarding school and falls in love with the mischievous and free-spirited Alaska Young. After Alaska tragically perishes in a car accident, Miles and his friends conduct a proposition for a prank to honor Alaska’s life and get back at the school for its false opinions on Alaska. Green is expressing this when he proclaims,“I didn't want the people she didn't know - and the people she didn't like - to be sad. They’d never cared about her, and now they were carrying on as if she were a sister,” (Green 158) and “ ‘A prank designed to lull the administration into a false sense of security,’ the Colonel answered, annoyed by the distraction. ‘After the pre-prank, the Eagle will think the junior class has done its prank and won't be waiting for it when it actually comes’ “(Green 98). The group of friends pulling this prank is representing the way people in their adolescent stage in life are more likely to rebel against something that they believe to be unjustified. Like Romeo and Juliet, Looking For Alaska deals with the power of love that leads to someone's

Waking up to discover the immense, pristine wilderness of Alaska, listening to the birds chirping their sounds while feeling the tremble of your heart beating through your veins. Trees as far as one can see with rolling hills and distant peaks covered with unblemished snow. The sounds of streams growing larger until they rush over a fall, and into an untainted lake. Pondering the true meaning of life while observing Mother Nature’s true grace. Very few people can relate to this scene of the wild. One of them being Christopher Johnson McCandless, a young pioneer and traveler, who was determined to seek the truth no matter what the cost.

For just about 114 days Alex Mccandless AKA Chris Mccandless lived in Alaska in an abandoned  bus close to Fairbanks, Alaska. Chris Mccandless gave up all his possessions and went on his quest to survive the harsh terrain and weather of Alaska. An obsession for surviving the intolerable Alaska was what brought him to his starvation death. In the summer of 1992 Mccandless’ body found by Moose hunters just outside the northern boundary of Denali National Park. This story is a novel based on a true story written by Jon Krakauer  titled “ Into the wild” Krakauer writes the novel with true passion, because he could relate to Chris Mccandless through their rough childhood.

In the beginning of the novel, Robert Walton writes letters from a journey he has taken to the arctic. As he searches for the North Pole, Robert expresses his loneliness and explains the purpose for which

“How does the geography of Alaska make it difficult to explore and settle:” both during the Klondike gold rush and still today?” Well, to start this off simple, the cold. The cold is one of the key things, if not the most important reason in this essay. Sometimes in Alaska it can go below freezing, and the cold seems like a very simple answer at first, but! They need to settle, work, and climb in it, the things that they need to do to get what they need, in this case oil, it will not be a very simple job. And most of the time they come back empty handed, so the payoff is worth it, and the money they waste is not the thing they worry about. Because sometimes they go home empty handed, but sometimes they don’t come home at all. And it’s more than you think.

The freezing Alaskan wilderness is one in the stars of both To Build a Fire and the Call of the Wild. “The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice,” quoted Jack London in his short story, To Build a Fire. The Yukon mention in the previous quote is a river that is located

On a cold brisk winter night, Craig living happily in his luxurious log cabin which is surrounded by nature's most beautiful but dangerous outdoors. Craig's custom cabin is outlined by enormous Alaskan pine trees and towering boulders. Also, around his cabin are some of the most beautiful animals in Alaska, including, chirping birds, roaring bears, and howling wolves. As winter comes to an end and spring approaches, Marty and his crew will reunite in search for sparkling treasure. Craig's mining crew has been intact for over fifteen years and is the most hardworking and successful crew ever. As the last bit of snow melts, Craig's crew member, Marty, decided to go on a hunt for food during the mining season. The other two members of the crew,

On an extremely cold winter day (−75 °F or −59 °C), a man, who remains unnamed throughout the story, and his native wolf-dog go on the Yukon Trail after being warned of the dangers of traveling alone in extreme weather conditions by an old man from Sulfur Creek. With nine hours of hiking ahead of him, the man is expecting to meet his associates ("the boys") at a camp in Henderson Creek by that evening. The man is accompanied only by his dog, whose instincts tell it that the weather is too cold for traveling. However, the weather does not deter the man, a relative newcomer to the Yukon, even though the water vapor in the man's exhaled breaths and the saliva from the tobacco he is chewing have frozen his mouth shut. It is here where London's use of symbolism of "heat (sun-fire-life) and cold (darkness-depression-death)" immediately

Looking For Alaska is a coming of age book about a boy named Miles and his experience during his first year of boarding school. Miles makes new friends and learns that compared to them, he has lived out a rather boring life. He spends the year doing new and wild things with his friends and his not-so-boring dream girl, Alaska Young. When Alaska dies under anomalous circumstances, her friends set out to find out who the girl they thought they knew really was and commemorate her death with the prank of a lifetime, one only Alaska herself could've

I think there are two major ideas behind this story. The first one is really obvious, especially in the end of the book: People shouldn’t ignore death as a topic. It helps to talk about it. It helps, if we have our own fantasy of what happens after someone passed away. But that Alaska would pass away was not obvious for the first half of the book, so for me personally I found another idea behind the story: You should make something out of your life. Live it at its’ fullest. Go and find “The Great Perhaps” that Miles Halters has been looking for, when he came to boarding school.