John Green
• The three books of his that I am focusing on are Looking for Alaska, The Fault In Our Stars, and An Abundance of Katherines. They all have the genre of young-adult fictional literature.
• The overarching theme of his books is realistic fiction stories of love, self-discovery, moving on, and tragedy.
• Looking For Alaska
• Looking for Alaska is about a teenage boy, Miles, who’s never really had many friends, or adventures or anything remotely interesting happen in his life. When he goes to a new boarding school, he befriends Chip “the Colonel,” Takumi, and the fascinating Alaska Young. There, the three friends take Miles under their wings, and introduce him to adventure, danger, and even love. Before long, Miles falls in love with Alaska, who shows him a whole new world of ideas and opinions, and mutually wants to discover his own “great perhaps”. But after an unforeseen tragedy nothing is the same. Miles and his friends must learn to cope with the loss of one of their own, and come to terms that Alaska is gone forever.
• The three major characters are Miles, Alaska, and Chip. They are the main characters in the close group of friends, who always stick together. Miles is inexperienced and a bit nerdy, and though gawky and geeky, he is willing to try new things and grow out of his old self. Chip is sly, smart, very tough, and gets angry easily. He sticks to his beliefs, and always has his friends’ backs. Alaska has a wild personality. She is fascinating, funny, smart, and very aware of the world she lives in.
• Some important quotes
- “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
- “Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
- “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
- “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how
• The overarching theme of his books is realistic fiction stories of love, self-discovery, moving on, and tragedy.
• Looking For Alaska
• Looking for Alaska is about a teenage boy, Miles, who’s never really had many friends, or adventures or anything remotely interesting happen in his life. When he goes to a new boarding school, he befriends Chip “the Colonel,” Takumi, and the fascinating Alaska Young. There, the three friends take Miles under their wings, and introduce him to adventure, danger, and even love. Before long, Miles falls in love with Alaska, who shows him a whole new world of ideas and opinions, and mutually wants to discover his own “great perhaps”. But after an unforeseen tragedy nothing is the same. Miles and his friends must learn to cope with the loss of one of their own, and come to terms that Alaska is gone forever.
• The three major characters are Miles, Alaska, and Chip. They are the main characters in the close group of friends, who always stick together. Miles is inexperienced and a bit nerdy, and though gawky and geeky, he is willing to try new things and grow out of his old self. Chip is sly, smart, very tough, and gets angry easily. He sticks to his beliefs, and always has his friends’ backs. Alaska has a wild personality. She is fascinating, funny, smart, and very aware of the world she lives in.
• Some important quotes
- “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
- “Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
- “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
- “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how