Looking For Alaska In life we face many issues and challenges. Perhaps the most challenging time is when we are Teens. Being a teen means being in that time period when we feel invincible, reckless and we are still trying to figure out who we are. For Miles Halter, he was just like everybody else...
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Looking For Alaska Book Report – Eulogy Hello everyone. I would like to thank you all for coming to honor our friend, Alaska Young. I am Miles Halter, known to most as Pudge. I transferred to Culver Creek Boarding School from Florida to ‘seek a Great Perhaps’, to leave behind the insignificant...
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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. ”...
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Looking for Alaska by John Green Looking for Alaska is one of the best books that I have read all year. I choose this book for my banned book project because of a recommendation of a friend, Rachel Mansfield, and was glad I did. Before I even read the book I had to see why, when, and where it was...
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Looking for Alaska is an amazing book that questions the meaning of life, and what happens to us after it. It follows three unique friends through a year at Culver Creek, a boarding school in southern Alabama. Looking for Alaska is told in the voice of Miles Halter, nicknamed Pudge by his roommate...
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The novel, Looking for Alaska by John Green was written in 2005. By 2006, it won the Michael L. Printz award from the American Library Association and placed number ten on the New York Times bestseller list. In the chapters entitled “The Day After” and “Two Days After,” Green describes how Miles...
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”Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. ”(Said by Alaska, p. 44, l. 17). This quote matches the theme because the book is very philosophical written, and Alaska gives many thoughts to life and death. The quote is a foreshadowing and tells a lot about the future incident. In this book Miles...
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Miles “Pudge” Halter- Miles never really fit in with the rest of his hometown, he always felt as though his life was much unfulfilled. In the beginning of the book, Miles discusses a poem that has the words “Great Perhaps”. This becomes the overall theme for Miles’s role in the story. He is a...
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John Green’s 2006 novel Looking for Alaska personally affected me as I could relate to one of the main characters Miles (Pudge). The theme of belonging was also very relevant as this novel touches on the concern of Miles fitting into his new school and finding out how everything works at Culver...
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1) Looking for Alaska, starts out with a, “before” section and has each chapter counting down to an unknown event. John Green introduced the main character with pronouncing that Miles Halter was leaving his school and family in Florida to go to a boarding school in Alabama. Miles never really had...
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Looking for Alaska The story opens with Miles Halter, the protagonist, leaving his home in Florida to attend a preparatory high school named Culver Creek in Alabama for his junior year. When he arrives at Culver Creek, Miles meets his roommate, Chip Martin. Chip introduces Miles to one of his...
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Naomi SmithSummer 2013 Reading AssignmentHonors English 8/3/13 Characterization Analysis In Looking for Alaska by John Green, the protagonist, Miles “Pudge” Halter, is very dynamic. In the beginning of the book, Pudge had no friends and was looking for what he calls the “Great Perhaps. ” So he...
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?I have recently read a wonderful book by John Green which is titled ‘Looking For Alaska’. The book is about a boy who is new to a boarding school; where he meets new friends and goes to “seek the Great Perhaps”. I think it’s a great book in which the author portrays the fragility of life, the...
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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...
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?Title: Looking for Alaska Author: John Green Text type: Young adult; Fiction “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to...
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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...
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?Looking for Alaska, by John Green, is a story about friendship and love. As a new student at Culver Creek (a boarding school), Miles gets a chance to start over and actually get a chance to make friends. When Miles gets to his school for the first time he meets his roommate, Chip, and they become...
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“Looking for Alaska” – John Green About The Book & Expectations I chose the novel “Looking for Alaska” by John Green, because I already read a reading sample in my English lessons in Germany from this book and I really liked the style of writing the author used. I also chose this novel...
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Sixteen year old Miles’ twin passions are reading biographies and collecting the last words of the famous. Deciding to search for, in the last words of the great Francois Rabelais, the ‘great perhaps’, Miles leaves his family in Florida and moves to Alabama to complete his ? nal two years of...
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