LOOKING FOR ALASKA

John Green
John green is an award winning author of several books including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in our Stars and Paper Towns. John Green was born in 1977. He now lives in Indianapolis with his wife and two kids. He also runs a YouTube change with his brother Hank and has millions of followers.

Plot overview:
Miles never anticipated falling in love, but loving Alaska was inevitable. Then like a cloud of smoke she was gone.

Genre overview/ Setting
Young-Adult Fiction
Settings: Florida
Birmingham, Alabama
Culver Creek Preparatory School.

Characters:
Miles: A 17-year-old boy whose looking for the "Great Perhaps" and finds it when he meets Alaska.
Alaska: is a young girl who is longing to escape the labyrinth.
Takumi: is the wild and eccentric friend who leads Miles into mischief.
Chip: the friend who has a good grasp on boarding school life and takes Miles under his wing when he enrolls.

Significance of the title:
In the beginning, the before, Alaska was already mysterious enough. But After, she leaves everyone all mixed up about her life and reasons of why she left, and that's why they're looking for her.

Why This Book is Important
This book is not only about the life of teens being influenced by the modern culture, but has much more significance. It is important because drugs have become much more common occurrence with teens. It is also important because people take other people for granted and never realize how much someone means to them till they're gone.

LIKES

• The anticipation of Alaka's fate
• How the weekday warriors and the others never ratted eachother out
• How real John Green made the characters

DISLIKES

• How Alaska always overreacted
• How Alaska felt guilty about everything
• Jake

Symbols:
Smoke, just like Alaska, was there one minute and gone the next. Thanks Mrs. McCracken.
"The labyrinth" do we really need to solve it.
The flowers.

Main Conflict:
Trying to figure out where Alaska was going and why she left; it was resolved.

Human Experiences:
Teens commonly believe that they are invincible.
People get to attached to things they have no control over.
Sadly, Drugs and alcohol are becoming more common with teens.

Themes:
The themes are death, discovering who you are and your purpose, guilt or burden, depression, troublemaking, change, and chances.

Why this book is on the list:
We believe this book is on the list because it teaches the reader a valuable lesson. No matter how much you think you know a person or what you think it's like to be them you really don't. Every person has a mind of their own and we can't control their actions.

Controversial issue:
Alaska- she left everything and everyone behind. Her actions were deadly. She hurt every one through what she did. No one ever blamed her yet she left. We wouldn't have done it.

Would we recommend this book?

100% yes!
Because it was a very real book and taught a good lesson.

Credits:
Creators: Maggie Tiernan, Kendyl Santos, Elizabeth Harla, Madison Eghigian, and Holly Adams .

Special thanks to: Mrs. McCracken for giving us the chance to read such a well written book!
John Green- for writing that book.

THE END!