Looking for alaska
Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in a back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. But that only led to a lonely life accompanied by only the last words of the already-dead, so I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life. And then I screwed up and he screwed up and we screwed up and she slipped through our fingers. And there’s no sugar-coating it: She deserved better friends.
I just finished reading a book that my girlfriend (we’ve actually been dating for exactly a year, so yay!) loaned me - Looking For Alaska by John Green. A fantastic read, it is about a junior in high school named Miles Halter, who’s obsession with famous last words has led him on a search for “The Great Perhaps”, a changing, defining moment in his life. In hopes of finding this, he attends a boarding school in Alabama, where he makes his first friends and becomes completely enraptured in a girl named Alaska Young.
The novel has been compared many, many times to The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, although that will not be a gauge of whether or not you will like this (I hated Catcher, yet love Alaska).
I took the liberty of answering the 15 discussion questions at the back of the book, so if you have read the novel, please, let’s discuss! If you have not read the book, I advise you to avoid reading the remainder of this post, it contains heavy spoilers. And honestly, this book is so good, I would feel awful if I ruined it for you. I ruined Fight Club for someone once, I still carry that shame with me.
Please, click Read More and discuss!
Discuss the book’s unusual structure. Why do you suppose Green chose this strategy for telling his story? How else might he have structured the same
I just finished reading a book that my girlfriend (we’ve actually been dating for exactly a year, so yay!) loaned me - Looking For Alaska by John Green. A fantastic read, it is about a junior in high school named Miles Halter, who’s obsession with famous last words has led him on a search for “The Great Perhaps”, a changing, defining moment in his life. In hopes of finding this, he attends a boarding school in Alabama, where he makes his first friends and becomes completely enraptured in a girl named Alaska Young.
The novel has been compared many, many times to The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, although that will not be a gauge of whether or not you will like this (I hated Catcher, yet love Alaska).
I took the liberty of answering the 15 discussion questions at the back of the book, so if you have read the novel, please, let’s discuss! If you have not read the book, I advise you to avoid reading the remainder of this post, it contains heavy spoilers. And honestly, this book is so good, I would feel awful if I ruined it for you. I ruined Fight Club for someone once, I still carry that shame with me.
Please, click Read More and discuss!
Discuss the book’s unusual structure. Why do you suppose Green chose this strategy for telling his story? How else might he have structured the same