Looking for Alaska Book Report
Looking for Alaska
I have read ”Looking for Alaska” by John Green published in 2005.
Looking For Alaska is about sixteen-year-old Miles who lived a very dull life in Florida until he decided to move to a boarding school in Alabama. There, he meets new friends, ”The Colonel”, Lara, Takumi and Alaska. Alaska is everything Miles isn’t, she’s beautiful, interesting, complicated, fascinating and fun.
The book is divided into two parts, before and after. The event that splits the book up is to much of a give-away for me to say unfortunately. The before part is mostly about the gang hanging out, they smoke, drink and do pranks while the after part of the book is much more about somethings else, but I can’t give away that either.
John Green writes in a very simple language. There aren’t much character descriptions or environment depictions and I thought Alaska was blonde until the end of the book when I read something about her ebony locks which was quite shocking actually.
Here is my favorite passage in the book:
”Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. 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.”
Alaska is someone I feel sympathy for. Alaska had a huge trauma when she was a kid which she still blames herself for. Her mother had a seizure one day when they were home alone and Alaska was very young and didn’t know what to do so she stood there and watched as her mother died. Later in the book she reveals that her father still blames her for her mother’s death and that that’s one
I have read ”Looking for Alaska” by John Green published in 2005.
Looking For Alaska is about sixteen-year-old Miles who lived a very dull life in Florida until he decided to move to a boarding school in Alabama. There, he meets new friends, ”The Colonel”, Lara, Takumi and Alaska. Alaska is everything Miles isn’t, she’s beautiful, interesting, complicated, fascinating and fun.
The book is divided into two parts, before and after. The event that splits the book up is to much of a give-away for me to say unfortunately. The before part is mostly about the gang hanging out, they smoke, drink and do pranks while the after part of the book is much more about somethings else, but I can’t give away that either.
John Green writes in a very simple language. There aren’t much character descriptions or environment depictions and I thought Alaska was blonde until the end of the book when I read something about her ebony locks which was quite shocking actually.
Here is my favorite passage in the book:
”Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. 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.”
Alaska is someone I feel sympathy for. Alaska had a huge trauma when she was a kid which she still blames herself for. Her mother had a seizure one day when they were home alone and Alaska was very young and didn’t know what to do so she stood there and watched as her mother died. Later in the book she reveals that her father still blames her for her mother’s death and that that’s one