Looking For Alaska By John Green
Looking for Alaska is a book that everyone should read. It is written by John Green, and it is such a nicely written book. It is about a boy named Miles Halter (nickname is Pudge) who doesn’t have many friends where he lives, so he decides to move away and attend Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama for his junior year like his father did. Miles goes to Culver Creek searching for his Great Perhaps, because he knows there is something more out in the world for him.
Miles Halter is the main character in Looking for Alaska. He leaves home to attend Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama hoping to make more friends since he did not have many home. Miles is a socially awkward teenager, that memorizes the last words people have said. He reads a lot of biographies on important people and remembers the last words those people said before their death. Miles roommate Chip Martin (nickname is the Colonel) gives Miles the nickname “Pudge” because he is so skinny. The Colonel introduces Pudge to one of his girl friends named Alaska. Pudge thinks that Alaska is insanely gorgeous but respects that she has a boyfriend back home. In the end, Alaska hooks Pudge up with one of her …show more content…
Friendship was important in this novel. Pudge finally found his friends that he had left Florida to find. They may have introduced him to some mischief, but they accepted him for who he was. Intimacy and love were two new and complicated things for Pudge at Culver Creek. One minute it would seem like Alaska had the same feelings for Pudge as he had for her and the next minute Alaska was head over heels for her boyfriend back home. Suffering seemed to happen a lot in this novel. Not just with Alaskas death, but with keeping up their grades after that, their family, and their relationships with their friends. In the end, Miles realizes that you have to forgive to survive in the labyrinth and the
Miles Halter is the main character in Looking for Alaska. He leaves home to attend Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama hoping to make more friends since he did not have many home. Miles is a socially awkward teenager, that memorizes the last words people have said. He reads a lot of biographies on important people and remembers the last words those people said before their death. Miles roommate Chip Martin (nickname is the Colonel) gives Miles the nickname “Pudge” because he is so skinny. The Colonel introduces Pudge to one of his girl friends named Alaska. Pudge thinks that Alaska is insanely gorgeous but respects that she has a boyfriend back home. In the end, Alaska hooks Pudge up with one of her …show more content…
Friendship was important in this novel. Pudge finally found his friends that he had left Florida to find. They may have introduced him to some mischief, but they accepted him for who he was. Intimacy and love were two new and complicated things for Pudge at Culver Creek. One minute it would seem like Alaska had the same feelings for Pudge as he had for her and the next minute Alaska was head over heels for her boyfriend back home. Suffering seemed to happen a lot in this novel. Not just with Alaskas death, but with keeping up their grades after that, their family, and their relationships with their friends. In the end, Miles realizes that you have to forgive to survive in the labyrinth and the