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Published on Mar 17, 2016
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LOOKING FOR ALASKA
"Looking for Alaska" is about a boy named Myles (later nicknamed Pudge). Myles decided to attend a boarding school named Culver Creek. In Culver Creek, Myles makes a couple of new friends, and despite having decent grades, does "typical teenager" activities such as cigarettes and alcohol. He also gets involved in pranks and other mischievous actions. Through the time he spends with Alaska he falls in love with her even though she would never love him back. In his time at Culver Creek, Myles learns important lessons about love, friendships, and life.
“Looking for Alaska” is about a boy named Myles (later nicknamed Pudge). Myles decides to attend a boarding school named Culver Creek. In Culver Creek, Myles makes a couple of new friends, and despite having decent grades, does “typical teenager” things such as cigarettes and alcohol. He also gets involved in pranks and other mischievous actions. Through the time he spends with Alaska getting drunk, and smoking; he falls in love with her even though she would never love him back. In his time at Culver Creek, Myles learns important lessons about love, friendships, and life.
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GREAT GATSBY
"Great Gatsby" is about a young man named Nick Carraway, who moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. Eventually, Nick gets invited to one of Jay Gatsby's magical, wonderful parties, and even gets to meet the man himself. Gatsby and Nick become friends, and Nick helps rekindle Gatsby and Daisy (Nick's cousin), which causes future trouble with her husband Tom.
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Gatsby's past romance with Daisy has affected the way he thinks and acts now. "Well, about six weeks ago, she heard the name Gatsby for the first time in years. It was when I asked you – do you remember? – if you knew Gatsby in West Egg. After you had gone home she came into my room and woke me up, and said: "What Gatsby?" and when I described him – I was half asleep – she said in the strangest voice that it must be the man she used to know. It wasn't until then that I connected this Gatsby with the officer in her white car"(4.145). Gatsby and Daisy still have feelings for each other, and for Gatsby those feelings never quite left. ""It was a strange coincidence," I said. "But it wasn't a coincidence at all. 'Why not?' 'Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay'" (4.147-151). Even after all those years, Gatsby has taken his love for Daisy, and is going as extreme as throwing parties across from her house, just to impress her.
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Alaska Young has a traumatizing past which affected the way she currently was. "and then she screamed, and I ran out, and she had fallen over. She was lying on the floor, holding her head and jerking. And I freaked out, I should have called 911, but I just started screaming and crying until finally she stopped jerking, and I thought she had fallen asleep and that whatever had hurt didn't hurt anymore. So I just sat there on the floor with her until my dad got home an hour later, and he's screaming, 'Why didn't you call 911?' and trying to give her CPR, but by then she was plenty dead. Aneurysm." Ever since the even in Alaska's past life, she has thought that she constantly messes things up, which is how her past has affected her future.
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ALASKA DESPISED HER LIFE, WHILE GATSBY MERELY TRIED TO CHANGE IT
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Alaska Young was not a happy person, and made no effort to keep up a healthy long life. "She looked at me and smiled widely, and such a wide smile on her narrow face might have looked goofy were it not for the unimpeachably elegant green in her eyes. She smiles with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, 'Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die'"(44). This is a difference between her and Gatsby, because Gatsby worked towards changing his life, while Alaska simply despised it.
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Although Gatsby was not happy with his life, he constantly tried to change it, unlike Alaska. "The modesty of the demand shook me. He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual months--so that he could come over some afternoon to a stranger's garden." Despite the fact that Gatsby was rich and successful, he still was not happy without Daisy in his life and made sure to get her back. Alaska merely left her life as it was, as there was not much she could do to help her situation.
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Both Alaska and gatsby affected the lives of the people around them
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Alaska taught Myles an important lesson about life and the way to master it. Myles says, "Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home." The labyrinth represents life, and Alaska taught Myles, that you have to acknowledge the problems in your life, not pretend they don't exist.
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Gatsby affected the life of Daisy and Nick by affecting their choices and feelings. "She told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little, and he looked at Gatsby, and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as some one he knew a long time ago." Tom was Daisy's husband, and by confessing her love for Gatsby, she just caused a lot of future trouble with her husband and for her self. Gatsby affected this, because he was the man Daisy still had feelings for.
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