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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LOOKING FOR ALASKA The novel “looking for Alaska”‚ is written by a famous author John Green. It’s a story of a teenage boy named Miles Halter‚ and how he leaves his home in Florida to attend Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama. All the chapters leave you something to think about. This novel is very engaging and shows a lot of maturity. Not only does this novel leave you surprised with a few twists but it teaches you life lessons like love‚ loss‚ grief and forgiveness. I was really shocked
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A Modern Day Transcendentalist The story of Chris McCandless is an inspiring one. Transcendentalism is the act of finding inner peace and relaxing. David Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are two authors who are transcendentalists. The idea of transcendentalism was started in America in the 1850’s. Chris McCandless is a college student who decides to become a transcendentalist. Chris McCandless is an example of a modern day transcendentalist because he fits the ideals of Walden‚ Self
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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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For this unit I read Looking for Alaska by John Green. I have read other books by John Green‚ including Paper Towns and The Fault in Our Stars. I think that most of his books that he writes are very similar in the fact that they usually have a teenage narrator. There is also a love story interconnected through the plot as well‚ but it is almost always disrupted by some type of tragedy. In Looking for Alaska‚ it was Alaska’s death. In Paper Towns‚ it was when Margo ran away. And lastly‚ in The Fault
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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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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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Transcendentalist McCandless What is transcendentalism? How is Christopher J. McCandless a transcendentalist? Transcendentalism is a philosophy‚ and a way of life. It consists of being a non-conformist‚ becoming one with nature‚ and rejecting materialism. Throughout Jon Krakauer’s novel‚ Into The Wild‚ McCandless happens to achieve all of the above. “Whoso would be a man‚ must be a non-conformist” (Emerson). He defied society‚ lived in the wild‚ and never cared about “things”. He existed
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The Transcendentalist Movement is known as an American literary‚ political and philosophical movement of the 1830s that was able to establish a clear voice for Americans. From conclusions drawn throughout Transcendentalism‚ there is a belief on a higher reality that is ultimately received by human reasoning. In the early nineteenth century‚ the movement followed with the belief that organized religion‚ government and other forms of social institutions corrupt the purity of each individual within
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Chapter 4: Early Nineteenth Century - American Transcendentalism (AT): A Brief Introduction Paul P. Reuben Note: Nineteenth Century American Transcendentalism is not a religion (in the traditional sense of the word); it is a pragmatic philosophy‚ a state of mind‚ and a form of spirituality. It is not a religion because it does not adhere to the three concepts common in major religions: a. a belief in a God; b. a belief in an afterlife (dualism); and c. a belief that this life has consequences
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