In Looking For Alaska‚ Miles “Pudge” Halter struggles with coming to terms with‚ or accepting‚ a lot of things that happen in the novel. In the ‘After’ part of the novel‚ Miles matures the most and comes of age by accepting and coping with Alaska’s death‚ realizing that his relationship with Alaska wasn’t as personal as he thought it was‚ and by learning how to survive in the labyrinth. One of the first signs that Miles has come of age is that he accepts Alaska’s death. For instance the
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John Green Fights Back Against Banning of Looking for Alaska‚ explains how associations are fighting back against the banning of books in public libraries and how a well known‚ award winning author feels about the prohibiting of his book in school libraries. The author‚ John Green‚ published his first novel Looking for Alaska in 2005. At that time‚ the novel was not very popular because Green was just beginning his career. Within a decade‚ Looking for Alaska became the most complained about book in
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Green’s target audience is young adults that like reading stories that they can somewhat relate to. While reading Looking For Alaska‚ I realized the main purpose of this novel is that Green wants to help his readers find their own “Great Perhaps.” Which you will read about in more detail throughout the book. In LFA‚ the book is separated into two parts‚ Before and After. Before: a socially awkward teen named Miles Halter is saying goodbye to his family and “friends” before he goes to Culver Creek
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“Looking For Alaska” By John Green. Dutton Books. Fiction. This book is all about the story of Miles “Pudge” Halter‚ a gawky‚ intelligent teen who has a major obsession with famous last words. In search of what Pudge refers to as “a great perhaps‚” he makes new friends‚ enemies and discovers himself. Before Pudge’s adventure at Culver Creek Boarding School began‚ Pudge was just a typical nerd living in a small town in Florida. His studies were most important and he loved reading biographies.
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Looking For Alaska vs. The Catcher in the Rye Many parallels can be drawn between the main protagonists in John Green’s Looking for Alaska‚ and J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. Although these two coming of age novels differ greatly in setting and in circumstance‚ many of the broader‚ more fundamental themes in each are actually quite similar. John Green was very much influenced by J.D. Salinger‚ and even admitted that Miles "Pudge" Halter in Looking For Alaska‚ was based largely off of Holden
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with is “Looking for Alaska” by John Green. For this presentation I used my knowledge from the book and also extended on some of the ideas. The overall concept of my Visual Component is showing the main quotes‚ questions‚ and ideas portrayed in the story. This story about a guy named “Pudge” since he was so skinny and he goes to a boarding school and meets a girl named Alaska and he slowly started to fall for her. The night Alaska started to show feeling for Pudge was the same night Alaska died. This
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only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end‚ and so it cannot fail.” John Green‚ Looking for Alaska. This is when Miles realizes and decides how he can accurately explain his friends and how he learns to understand Alaska’s behavior especially. In a way‚ he is somehow describing
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years. Looking for Alaska cannot be merely written off as a typical boy-meets-girl love story‚ because it isn’t. As Miles Halter or “Pudge” craves for “the Great Perhaps”‚ he heads to the world of Culver Creek Boarding School‚ wherein he met the beautiful‚ mysterious and emotionally confused Alaska Young and in his life nothing is ever the same again. John Green is a bestselling author of Young Adult fictions‚ vlogger‚ writer‚ producer‚ actor and editor. His first novel‚ Looking for Alaska‚ published
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Looking For Alaska by John Green. This book is divided into two sections‚ Before and After. Summary Before. “Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were ‘’I go to seek a Great Perhaps.’’ That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.” Sixteen-year-old Miles (Pudge) Halter’s life has been devastatingly dull. He has no friends‚ no girls and no adventures‚ except for an obsession over the last words of dead famous people. And
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Is John Green’s ‘Looking for Alaska’ worth the read? Looking for a good book? Stop looking in the libraries and start ’Looking for Alaska’! This book is one of my personal favorites and I keep finding myself reading it over and over again. The book starts out with Miles Halter’s going away party‚ where only 2 of his classmates show up. He’s starting school at a private school‚ Culver Creek‚ as a junior. Back home‚ he never had many friends‚ but at “the Creek” he instantly connects with his roommate
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