Entry two: Looking for Alaska
Pudge desires to have the same experiences at Culver's Creek as his father did. His father always reminisces about his days at the boarding school and how much fun he had with his life long friends he made there. He wants to make friends and have the life that he didn't have back at his school in Florida. He is searching for "The Great Perhaps." He wants to be Alaska's boyfriend. He is always thinking about how beautiful and interesting she is but he believes she would never go for him because he thinks that he is completely boring and uninteresting.
The Colonel desires to be able to take care of his very poor mother who has been raising him all by herself for his whole life. He wants to go to college and become rich so he can give his mother everything he believes she deserves.
Alaska has pretty much given up on hope since her mother died many years before. She smokes cigarettes so much because she states that she wants to die. She has a boyfriend in college that she loves with all her heart and he is basically her reason for living. She doesn't want to be in school, she wants to travel all over the world.
I think one of the main themes is friendship. As I keep reading, the relationships between the characters are shown more and more of how strong the bond is between the group and just how important they all are to each other. They only have the few of them.
The book is structured as a before and after. All of the events before Alaska's accident and all of the things that happen afterwards.
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Entry 1
Entry One: Looking for Alaska
The major characters in John Green's novel "Looking for Alaska" are: Miles Halter (Pudge), Chip Martin (the Colonel), and Alaska Young. The setting is at a boarding school (Culver Creek) in Alabama. The conflict in the story is mostly within Pudge himself. He wants to be friends with Alaska and the Colonel but he has a hard time initially getting involved with all of the mischief and pranks the two of them get themselves into like smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, and playing pranks on the principle whom they called "The Eagle."
I predict that Pudge will actually become good friends with Alaska and the Colonel by throwing himself into their mischief and finding out how exhilarating it can be.
Does Pudge want to prove himself worthy of being friends with them simply because he has a little crush on Alaska? Or is it also because he has never really had friends before?
The character of Pudge reminds me of the character Annie from the show 90210 because both of these characters changed parts of who they are to fit in with a new crowd of friends. Annie moves to Beverly Hills from Kansas and decides to take on the personality and lifestyle of the Beverly Hills girls so she can fit in. Pudge decides to become a prankster and a "rebel" to fit in with Alaska and the Colonel.
The major characters in John Green's novel "Looking for Alaska" are: Miles Halter (Pudge), Chip Martin (the Colonel), and Alaska Young. The setting is at a boarding school (Culver Creek) in Alabama. The conflict in the story is mostly within Pudge himself. He wants to be friends with Alaska and the Colonel but he has a hard time initially getting involved with all of the mischief and pranks the two of them get themselves into like smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, and playing pranks on the principle whom they called "The Eagle."
I predict that Pudge will actually become good friends with Alaska and the Colonel by throwing himself into their mischief and finding out how exhilarating it can be.
Does Pudge want to prove himself worthy of being friends with them simply because he has a little crush on Alaska? Or is it also because he has never really had friends before?
The character of Pudge reminds me of the character Annie from the show 90210 because both of these characters changed parts of who they are to fit in with a new crowd of friends. Annie moves to Beverly Hills from Kansas and decides to take on the personality and lifestyle of the Beverly Hills girls so she can fit in. Pudge decides to become a prankster and a "rebel" to fit in with Alaska and the Colonel.
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