Compare And Contrast Teenagers In Looking For Alaska

Can fictional books teach students about social issues and how to deal with them? Fiction allows students to explore different situations and events, that they have never experienced. A novel can contain all sorts of themes, conflicts, and lessons. In Looking for Alaska, each character is different because of the way their life problems have affected them and how those around them make them feel. Despite the school board’s recent sentiments regarding the lack of value that fiction provides, fiction should remain in the school’s curriculum due to teaching social issues that can occur in life, people can go through these social issues even relate to them, and students can take life lessons from fiction books if they exist in real life.

Looking For Alaska is a coming of age book about a boy named Miles and his experience during his first year of boarding school. Miles makes new friends and learns that compared to them, he has lived out a rather boring life. He spends the year doing new and wild things with his friends and his not-so-boring dream girl, Alaska Young. When Alaska dies under anomalous circumstances, her friends set out to find out who the girl they thought they knew really was and commemorate her death with the prank of a lifetime, one only Alaska herself could've

Alaska is known for its breathtaking view of the Northern Lights and the large bodies of water that surround this deserted state. It is also well known for its scenic parks, rugged mountains such as Mount McKinley which holds the highest peak in North America, and Mount Katmai which is known for its volcanic eruption in 1912. The state is also known for the Gold Rush. Alaska may not be the most populated but it certainly has some of the most beautiful and scenic views.

What observations would you make regarding the cognitive, moral, and social-emotional developmental manifestations of the teen’s reactions occurring here.

In Adolescents, the chapter 5 of the book, What Children Need by Jan Waldfogel, the author addresses evidence that support adolescents about healthy growth and development, transitions to adulthood, and what parents and others can provide. To begin with, he pointed out what adolescents need to know during the period when they are growing and transitioning to adulthood. For instance, he discusses the health behaviors and outcomes and social and emotional ones such as physical activity, nutrition, risky behaviors, and cognitive development. Waldfogel states, “Nutritional habits set in adolescence can lay the groundwork for a lifetime of health eating or poor nutrition and obesity (p. 158).” Another thing that he discusses is how the role of

John Green’s novel Looking for Alaska tells the story of Miles Halter, a shy teenager who transfers to Culver Creek Boarding School for his junior year of high school, in search of the “Great Perhaps”. His roommate, Chip Martin, “The Colonel” takes Miles under his wing and nicknames him Pudge. Miles introduces him to the erratic lifestyle of smoking, drinking, pranks, and Alaska Young. Alaska Young is, witty, moody, beautiful, and self-destructive, and Pudge is attracted to her. When a few of the weekday warriors drag Pudge out of his bed, cover him in ductape and throw him in a lake, and urinated in the Colonel shoes. The Colonel promised himself to have revenge on them. The weekday warriors violated Pudge and urinated in Colonel’s

Teenagers are more than capable of achieving great tasks in the future as well as causing great destruction with every skill stapled in their mind as they grow. Good and evil will determine the effects of which path a young mind its taught so that’s why parents must educated well with good intensions for a better future. The age of a teenager shows history how it transformed the world including the United States by family values, the high school, and dangerous adolescences etc. What teenagers did was start a fashion changing the world and its rules, becoming rebellious toward their parents values for

Summary: Looking for Alaska is the story of a young boy named Miles Halter who leaves his hometown in Florida in order to attend Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama for his junior year. This boy loves reading biographies and especially memorizing last words of famous people. At Culver Creek, he meets new friends such as Chip his roommate also called Colonel, Takumi and Alaska a beautiful young girl with whom he will fall in love but cannot have since she already has a boyfriend named Jake. Unfortunately, under their influence, Miles starts smoking and drinking alcohol. One night after having drank a lot of alcohol, Alaska and Miles start to kiss but do not go further because Alaska

After disappearing down the snow covered trail, Alex looked at his map and recognized he was nearby the Triple Lakes Trail. Not wanting to encounter any people, Alex ventures away from the trail until he discovers a lake up ahead and begins setting up his tent and gathering some materials to start a campfire just inside the forest near the lake. Just as Alex finished putting his tent up and gathering enough sticks to keep a small fire going for a while the sun started to set. Alex then went and filled up his canteen with water and went inside his tent for the night. Once inside his tent, Alex decided to go through his bag to make sure he still had everything he brought with him. In his bag he had a ten pound

At first, Miles seems to be a trouble maker because of the letter of expulsion from school because he was a harm to others. But as the story goes on, it seems as if Miles is just an innocent, loving, and smart boy. He was a very nice boy and did not do anything wrong in front of the governess. However, this soon changes. One night he sneaks out the house, ensuring Flora will have the governess see him. When the governess asks what he was doing outside, he simply says that he wanted to prove that he could be bad. The impression now is that he seems rather bizarre; what child would want to prove that they are bad? All it does is get them in trouble. He becomes even more bizarre when he inquires with the governess about his return to school. He

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It seems natural to think about novels in terms of dreams or psychoanalytical realities. Like dreams, novels are fictions, inventions of the mind that, though based on reality, are by definition not exactly and literally true. Conversely, dreams may have some truth to tell but like novels their truth must be interpreted before it can be grasped. Such is the case with John Green's young adult novel, Looking for Alaska. It holds many truths that are relevant to young adults, but to extract those lessons, one must first view the plot and characters through a lens of psychoanalytical theory.

Looking for Alaska is a book about a boy named Miles that goes away to a private school called Culver Creek were he meets a group of friends that he starts to hang out with throughout the year. He becomes very good friends with everyone and they begin to let him in on their secret spot called "the smoking hole", where they all smoke their cigarettes without getting in trouble. Soon he starts to get a crush on a girl named Alaska, which seems to already have a boyfriend. As soon as Miles starts to fall in love with her a horrible thing happens. Alaska dies in a terrible car accident, which turns into a very mysterious and confusing death. When Miles and the other boys get the news, they start fighting to find out the truth on what really happened. After reading this novel, one is left with the question, "How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?"

The Colonel grew up poor in a trailer park in rural Alabama. He is very smart and attends Culver Creek on a scholarship. He resents the “Weekday Warriors” the rich kids in school who go home on the weekends, and most of his pranks are against them. The Colonel has a good relationship with his mother, and he plans on repaying her when he finishes school. He is Pudge’s first friend at Culver Creek, and he introduces Pudge to the ways of the school.

Alaska is the biggest and one of the coolest states in all of the United States. There are many different things that make Alaska the coolest state. The three main things that are great about Alaska the, mountains, the food, and the animals.These are just the three things I will talk about in this paragraph but there are more things that are great about the great state of Alaska.