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    between Paper Towns and Looking for Alaska is the main characters. Miles is the main character in Looking for Alaska, and Quentin is the main character of paper towns. Both are outcasts, Q is a geek in high school, while Miles is a new kid in a Boarding school, both characters are inexperienced, a lot shyer than all the other characters they meet and that connects with their vulnerability. Their vulnerability allows Miles and Quentin to be more receptive to the values, ideas, and characteristics that

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    The two main settings in Looking for Alaska are a boarding school, Culver Creek. This boarding school is know for taking kids that would not be friends and forming a special bond between the kids. The second, most important setting is the lake. The lake is a place where the kids can get away. They go here to do things that are not allowed on campus. For example, smoking, the kids go to the beach like shoreline and smoke. The time period in which Looking for Alaska takes place is, modern day

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    Looking for Alaska “Last night Alaska Young was in a terrible accident” (Green 139), The words that changed everyone's lives. Miles Halter (pudge) starts attending a new school in Alabama, and he meets his three best friends (Alaska, the Colonel, and Takumi). Miles has a major crush on Alaska but can’t do anything about it, because she has a boyfriend. The three best friend do everything together including drinking, smoking, and pulling pranks. Until he only has two best friends left. Alaska

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    “You make me brave, you know?” says the main character Sam Temple of the coming-of-age novel Gone to his love interest, Astrid Ellison. In the books Gone by Michael Grant, Looking for Alaska by John Green, and Paper Towns by John Green, young love is present between two of the characters in the book. The main character (often male) is significantly different before this young love. After the main character falls in love his behavior changes, such as reckless behaviour, for example drinking and skipping

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    the end of John Green’s novel Looking for Alaska is not as simple as it seems, for it is what identifies the most important theme in the book. The best way to show how this quote truly expresses the greater meaning behind our story, we have to compare the journeys of our two main characters Alaska and Pudge, or more so, their individual endings. In the first part of the novel, the book focuses mainly on Alaska and her story. Throughout these first pages, we see Alaska struggle with the pain of knowing

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    Looking for Alaska by John Green is a gripping novel and intriguing book that has deep meaning. With the complex themes and ideas throughout this book you may not have picked up on or grasped some of the possible symbolism found in this story. The main characters, Miles, Alaska, and the Colonel, demonstrate complicated actions (especially Alaska) which may leave the reader some confusion. With this in mind, this article explores and interprets some parts of the story to better help one understand

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    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

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    you’ll find it as easy as 1, 2, 3. For example in Looking for Alaska by John Green, Miles stated, “ It was the central moment of Alaska’s life. When she cried and told me she that she screwed everything up, I knew what she meant now… I know who she meant. It was the everything and everyone of her life” (Green 120). This statement is what lended me a hand when it came to figuring out the three most important themes that were tucked away in Looking for Alaska. As we will learn later on the death of one character

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    Looking For Alaska “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” This is a french Renaissance writer named Francois Rabelais last words before death. In the novel Looking For Alaska this quote is an ongoing theme. This young adult fiction novel was written by New York Times bestselling author John Green. This book is about figuring out life and death as a teenager, and although it may not be easy for the main character Miles. In the end he believes he has found what he is looking for. Looking For Alaska has

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    entire book by John Green’s, Looking for Alaska. In this book there were quite a few things that went on, leading to a pretty devastating thing to happen. Miles, who was nicknamed Pudge, leaves his home in Florida to go to Culver Creek in Alabama. Pudge makes friends with Takumi, The Colonel, and Alaska, which was different for him because he didn’t have any at his other school. As the book moves along he slowly finds himself falling in love with Alaska. Then Alaska dies and Pudge and The Colonel

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