Looking for Alaska is about a boy named Miles Halter who is trying to find his Great Perhaps in a boarding school in Alabama. Miles met new friends in boarding school and a girl named Alaska Young who he then began to like/love her. The most important part of the story has to do when Alaska dies and Miles finds himself in the middle of trying to figure out if Alaska ever liked him like he did. Miles also is caught in figuring out his Great Perhaps after Alaska’s death. Alaska Young is a character
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2008 PSYCHOANALYTIC ANALYSIS OF LOOKING FOR ALASKA It seems natural to think about novels in terms of dreams or psychoanalytical realities. Like dreams‚ novels are fictions‚ inventions of the mind that‚ though based on reality‚ are by definition not exactly and literally true. Conversely‚ dreams may have some truth to tell but like novels their truth must be interpreted before it can be grasped. Such is the case with John Green’s young adult novel‚ Looking for Alaska. It holds many truths
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Study: Officer Robert Barton Will E. James CJA/474 August 3‚ 2012 George Williams Case Study- Officer Robert Barton Officer Robert Barton has high standards and values as a police officer‚ but he is finding it extremely difficult to continue with that mindset. After obtaining a new position within the gang task force‚ Officer Barton realizes that there is a subculture of loyalty‚ secrecy‚ and conformity. Seeking approval from his new unit‚ Officer Barton soon abandons his personal
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Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska is a novel by John Green and is about a young man named Miles Halters. The book is set in Alabama at the boarding school‚ Culver Creek High School. Miles loves memorizing the last words of famous people and is looking to seek his “Great Perhaps” in his life. After moving into his dorm Miles meets Chip‚ or also known as The Colonel. The two moves the Colonels’ furniture into the boys’ dorm. Soon after Miles gets the nickname‚ Pudge‚ just to be ironic since he
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Book: Looking for Alaska by John Green # Character Trait Context of Quote & Page Number Response to Text 1 Warm “In the dark beside me‚ she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla‚ and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette except for when she smoked‚ when the burning cherry of the cigarette washed her face in the pale red light. But even in the dark‚ I could see her eyes-fierce emeralds. She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every
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In this sentence from John Green’s Looking for Alaska‚ the speaker’s attitude toward the party is best described as indifferent. The speaker’s tone and diction implies that he lacks interest or concern in the unsuccessful party that was thrown for him. He mentions how “he could feel their pity”‚ but then goes on to say that “they needed more pity than I did”. This shows how although his parents pitied him for not having friends‚ he did not pity himself‚ but instead felt bad for his hopeful parents
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Looking for Alaska by John Green is basically about Miles Halter‚ a sixteen year old teenager‚ who is friendless at his high school in Florida‚ and asks his parents if they can send him to boarding school in Alabama. His first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School consists of many pranks‚ good friends‚ and searches for answers about life and Alaska’s death after an accident. I’ve never attended a boarding school however‚ John Green gave me a sense of what it’s like to attend a boarding school
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Forgiveness does not change the past‚ but it does change the future. In order to heal we must forgive and sometimes the person we must forgive is ourselves. In this novel Looking For Alaska Written by John Green Forgiveness and Guilt plays an big role leading up to the three major themes. Mystery‚Life and Death‚Loyalty and Forgiveness are three major themes that are portrayed throughout the novel to teach us a life long lesson that could potentially change our perspective of how we see life.In this
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Reading Response Barton The overview point of Barton’s integrated approach to literacy is to help understand the different perspectives about reading and writing while coming up with new views of literacy. The impact of literacy in everyday life is the first discussion. Barton gives several examples in which literacy impact our lives starting from the morning radio to the mail‚ which broadens the readers perspective that literacy is not defined only to reading and writing. Like culture‚ literacy
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Euan MacLeod and Del Kathryn Barton are Australian artists that operate with different materials at different periods of times‚ who produce exceptional works that relate significantly to the concept of identity with a focus on the human condition. The works of Del Kathryn Barton reflect femininity and motherhood; however‚ Macleod’s reflect morbid emotions and an abstract approach to portray an altered style of melancholy. Barton’s ‘The Highway is a Disco’ was flawlessly painted in the modern era
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