Comparing Looking For Alaska And The Fault In Our Stars

For this unit I read Looking for Alaska by John Green. I have read other books by John Green, including Paper Towns and The Fault in Our Stars. I think that most of his books that he writes are very similar in the fact that they usually have a teenage narrator. There is also a love story interconnected through the plot as well, but it is almost always disrupted by some type of tragedy. In Looking for Alaska, it was Alaska’s death. In Paper Towns, it was when Margo ran away. And lastly, in The Fault in Our Stars, both main love interests, Augustus and Hazel, have cancer. John Green does a great job of intertwining love stories along with hardships. This allows the reader to get lost in the fantasy of it, but it also snaps them back to reality. I think I would like to read some more of his books if I got the chance because they always keep me engaged throughout the whole story and he always has a good storyline going and interesting characters to learn about. I think that An Abundance of Katherines would be a good novel to read by John Green. At the end of Looking for Alaska there is a little excerpt from An Abundance of Katherines and it caught my attention. The plot seems interesting and it sounds a lot like his other books, which I enjoyed.
It ends with Miles explaining his way out of the labyrinth that Alaska talked about earlier in the story. He states: “I thought at first she was just dead. Just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs… I still think that, sometimes, think that maybe “the afterlife” is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable” (Green 220). I like the way that Green explains how Miles feels in the last couple of paragraphs. By Miles explaining his thoughts on the labyrinth, it makes the story come full circle from the beginning of the novel when Alaska first introduced the topic on the labyrinth and why she was so obsessed with