Friendship 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.

Throughout the story the author captures the meaning of true friendship. As the book progressed, the bond between them grew stronger and stronger. “‘...we will deal with those bastards, Pudge. I promise you. They will regret messing with one of my friends.” (Green 28). The Colonel was helping out Pudge in the first chapters in the book, shown in this passage. Not only the Colonel helped from the very beginning but so did Alaska. “ I’m sorry but that's bullshit. You can't just throw him out of class.”(Green 39) Alaska was also sticking up for Pudge even though she got herself kicked out of class as well. Teaching the reader that friends are supposed to be there for one another. While reading further into the book, it portrays the loyalty that lies within a friendship. When the three friends were caught smoking in the woods by their superintendent, Alaska and the Colonel took all of the blame, covering for Pudge. They did Pudge a favor and did not snitch on him, where most students would

One can see many different themes of friendship throughout Chaim Potoks book, The Chosen. For example, Reuven and Danny have a ‘classic friendship,’ while Reuven has a silent friendship with his father. Furthermore, Reuven has a father-son friendship with his dad at first, but later it changes into a ‘friend-friend’ friendship, where they are no longer in the classic state, in which the father guides and teaches the son; but that they guide each other. Three different types of friendship display themselves in these characters, Danny and Reuven, Reuven and Mr. Malter and Danny and Reb Saunders. The differences between these types of friendships are quite vast, and one must look at the type of interaction and the people involved when analyzing them. For the people one must look at the roles they play on society, and for the interactions one must identify a superior and observe the nature of the friendship.

He was never really the popular guy and is not usually the one for small talk but is mostly into famous peoples last sayings instead. Miles is very scrawny and lanky but very intellectually smart. Chip Martin, The Colonel, is Miles’ best friends but opposite by comparison. He got the name, the Colonel, because he made sure all of Alaska’s pranks were going to work, the mastermind of them. The Colonel is a genius and excels at school but is a very straightforward type of guy. He is very short but muscular and a regular smoker and drinker. Alaska Young is a very beautiful girl but is confusing in many ways. She relies on her impulse and is very spontaneous but can change moods on a dime. Alaska’s mother died when she was younger and Alaska thinks it’s her fault because she didn’t dial 911 and is living with the guilt and regret that consumes her sometimes. She always went to her mothers grave on the anniversary. From this she doesn’t feel any sympathy toward people. Alaska is a very mysterious moody person that is a fascinating character. All of the characters are very vivid and give a lot of background to each of their stories. They are very realistic because there are actually people just like them in the story that I know in real life. It shows that the author did a very good job with the characteristics that they have and are valuable in the

Pudge liked staying alone in his house, reading biographies, and keeping quiet. After Pudge met and fell in love with Alaska, he changed. Before Pudge had gone to Culver Creek and met Alaska, Pudge was significantly different, Pudge thinks to himself,“Although I was more or less forced to invite all my ‘school friends’... I had kept my popularity secret from her [Pudge’s mom] all these years.”

    To start with, at several points in the book we see one of the main characters, Alaska show loyalty and how it leads to friendship and trust. Despite being a very quiet, secretive person she

He has an obsession over people's last words. He falls for Alaska after a little bit of attention that she gave. Alaska Young: Alaska Young is also an important character in the book. Alaska is a teenage girl. She is petite but she is so beautiful, charming and attractive.

How would one escape this labyrinth that is our lives to find our Great Perhaps? Miles Halter “Pudge” travels to a new school to find his own Perhaps. Miles makes new friends; Chip Martin “The Colonel”, Alaska Young, Takumi Hikohito, and Lara Buterskaya in his journey at Culver Creek. In Looking for Alaska, the author, John Green, shows the life of five teenagers and how they have experienced lasting love, death, and self-discovery.

He is a very unpopular teen in his public school in Florida, and he does not know his true identity. Pudge is an only child who does not have a well established relationship with his parents or anyone of that matter. He is very tall, skinny, no muscle tone, dark, thick hair, and pale white skin from never going outside. His favorite hobby is to read the last words of famous or infamous people, and he scopes his father's library out for these last words. Pudge decides he wants to attend a private school in Northern Florida, and this is where he meets his closest friends. Within this novel his main goal is to find the "Great Perhaps," and along this journey he falls in love with a girl named Alice Walker. What he does not realize until it iis too late was that Alice is his "Great Perhaps." Pudge ahieves his goal and helps his classmates achieve a sense of familiarity within

Question 2: Character Description Miles “Pudge” Halter is the first person you meet in Looking for Alaska. He is tall and scrawny hence the irony of his nickname Pudge, given to him by his soon to be good friend the Colonel. Pudge had never had many friends in his hometown but when he moved to Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama he met some new friends that changed his life. He finally stepped out of his box and was smoking cigs and playing pranks and drinking booze, all things him and his parents never would've thought he'd be one to do. Pudge finally had some adventure in his life.

The novella Of mice and men taught us that sometimes friends might be all what we need and have. "Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to." George and Lennie became best friends even when they know that there is a huge difference between them in everything: the strength, maturity, and actions. They never left each other even when Lennie got in trouble, both of them escaped

The book Looking for Alaska begins with Miles parents throwing him a fair-well party, as he is leaving home in Florida to go to a school in Alabama. Although his parents are upset when only two people attend the party, it doesn’t really faze him, since he’s not popular at his current school. To tell why he’s leaving he used his favorite authors last words “I go to seek a Great Perhaps’. Since Miles was very adventurous it made it pretty easy for him to leave home without being so nervous.

Unexpected tragedies happen to our everyday lives, we sometimes just have to deal with it. In John Green's novel Looking For Alaska, Miles, also known as Pudge immediately grew an affection for Alaska once he moved to a new boarding school. However Alaska got in a terrible car accident leaving her dead. On the path to move on, Pudge understands that in order to move on he needs to learn to forgive himself, not only Alaska.

Everyone has their own beginning; all of which are unique. While celebrating Thanksgivings at Chip’s house, Miles learns about his way of life. According to John Green, “The Colonel’s mom lived in a trailer, as in the kind of thing you might see attached to a large pickup truck, except this particular one was old and falling apart on its cinder blocks” (Green 90-91). This environment contrasts with Miles’ beginnings. Before attending Culver Creek, he lived with his parents in Florida. Green observes the following in the novel, “Although I was more or less forced to invite all my “school friends,” i.e., the ragtag bunch of drama people and English geeks I sat with by social necessity in the cavernous cafeteria of my public school, I knew they wouldn’t come.” (Green 3). The unique upbringing of

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?"