Looking for Alaska Essays

Looking for Alaska

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 banned. So I began my research...

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Looking for Alaska

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 goes away to boarding school and meets “The Colonel”, Takumi, Lara, and Alaska. They were...

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Looking for Alaska: Reading Response

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 escape the present. ” John Green’s ‘Looking for Alaska’, tells a story...

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Looking for Alaska Analysis

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

Many people don’t realize that our actions can affect the people around us. Alaska acts as a whirlwind in Mile’s life. Changing who he is and dealing with that is the heart of the book. It’s not the controversial side-events of a teen’s life (smoking, drinking, cursing, having “sexual relations”)...

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Looking For Alaska book report

The book, “Looking For Alaska” by John Green is about a boy named Miles "Pudge" Halter. Before everything happens, he is leaves his home, in Florida to go to Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama. When he is at the school, he meets a boy named Chip "The Colonel" Martin, who is his roommate at...

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Looking For Alaska

Miles Halter was going to attend a boarding school in Alabama, leaving his family and Florida behind. His mother forced him into throwing a going-away party, believing that Miles just hides that he was popular in school. He wasn’t, however, and no one attended the party, except for two people who...

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Conflict of Looking for Alaska

Miles struggles in finding himself and who is truly is, looking for The Great Perhaps. In the before section of the book, he starts off as plain Miles, he is unhappy and has no friends. Once he starts attending Culver Creek, he is now Pudge. He starts to do rebellious things, such as drink alcohol...

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Looking for Alaska Notes

Is 'Looking for Alska' important enough to be required reading for all sophmore students? John Greene, is writer of many teenage novels about their excursions through high school including, 'Lookin for Alaska'. It would be easy to say that many of his books relate to how a student in their...

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Looking for Alaska

Critic’s Choice Review of Looking for Alaska by John Green Miles “Pudge” Hatler’s boring obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the ‘’Great Prehaps’’ (Francois Rablais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, and anything-but-boring world of Cluver Creek Boarding...

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Looking For Alaska book report

The novel Looking for Alaska by John Green centers on a main character, Miles Halter, that goes through many learning experiences. For example, Miles goes through a huge adjustment period moving from Florida to Alabama for boarding school. Getting used to this new place was a huge mile stone in...

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Looking For Alaska Essay

Paez 1 Mia Paez English 9-2 H 31 March 2014 Looking For Alaska In the book Looking for Alaska written by John Green is a story about how main character Miles “Pudge” Halter moves from his hometown in Florida to go to a boarding school in Alabama called Culver Creek High School, there he meets his...

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Looking For Alaska Quotes

[trx_quote title="John Green, Looking For Alaska Quotes" top="inherit" bottom="inherit" left="inherit" right="inherit"]“What is an "instant" death anyway— How long is an instant— Is it one second— Ten— The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and...

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Looking For Alaska: Character Cards

Miles "Pudge" Halter The protagonist of the novel. Fond of learning famous last words, socially awkward, 16, tall and lanky. He becomes best friends with Chip Martin ("The Colonel") and falls deeply in love with the mysterious and spontaneous Alaska Young. Chip "The Colonel" Martin Miles'...

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Looking for Alaska: Vocabulary Definitions

rag tag sloppy; disorganized; not professional to festoon sth. to decorate sth. to persever to continue doing something to ace sth. to complete something well cavalry Die Kavallerie, troops trained to fight on horseback small talk light informal conversation for social occasions to pity sb...

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Looking For Alaska: Vocabulary Flashcards

Counterinsurgency Page 31 Definition: Military or political action taken against the activities of guerrillas or revolutionaries Part of Speech: Noun Incorrigible Page 43 Definition: (of a person or their tendencies) not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed Part of Speech: adjective ...

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Looking For Alaska: Literary Devices

Alliteration Buzz blows blue bubbles The repetition of beginning consonant sounds through a sequence of words Stanza Roses are red Violets are blue Sugar is sweet And so are you A paragraph in a poem or song Simile The horse is like a wild flower A comparison of two things using "like" or "as" ...

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Looking for Alaska - Chapter 1 Flashcards

Boarding school a private school where students are lodged and fed as well as taught ragtag disorganized; made up of mixed, often diverse, elements ?? ??? ????? geek a person with an unusual or odd personality ?????? English geek someone who likes a particular subject a lot and is not...

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Looking For Alaska: Story Summary

Colonel: They will regret messing with one of my friends Enter stage left, sit on box Colonel: Takumi, this is Pudge. Pudge is cool Hi. I heard about last night. That sucks man Pudge: The Colonel likes to joke, but I was inspired. The nature of the labyrinth and the way out of it. Exit stage...

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Looking For Alaska: Characters

Miles "Pudge" Halter Protagonist of the novel, enjoys learning famous last words of authors, becomes close friends w/ Chip Martin (aka "Colonel"), falls in love w/ Alaska Young Chip "The Colonel" Martin Miles' roommate, 5 ft tall ; "built like Adonis", grew up in trailer w/ only his mom in an...

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