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    In novel, Step From Heaven by Na, An and Looking For Alaska by Green, John, two unique characters are introduced. Young Ju from Step From Heaven and Miles or Pudge from Looking For Alaska. These two adolescents have to go through different challenges. As they face adversities, they react in different ways. However, they were able to overcome those obstacles due to the guidance of their characteristics. Additionally, those adversities helped them reveal their real identities. These two characters

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    “I may die young, but at least i'll die smart”-Alaska Young (pg. 57 Green). The book I read was Looking for Alaska. The main character in the book is Pudge. Pudge was a new student to Culver Creek Preparatory School. Pudge is obsessed with finding the great perhaps. During the book Pudge is questioned on how to find a way out of this labyrinth. Pudge changes throughout the book facing hardship and finally finding out what the great perhaps is. Pudge transfers to Culver Creek High School to find

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    In the book, Looking for Alaska, by John Green, a boy, Miles (a.k.a. Pudge), is going to a private school in search of his Great Perhaps. In the process, he meets two characters, Alaska and Chip (a.k.a. The Colonel). The three students all get into mischief right away, by starting pranks, smoking and drinking and avoiding the Eagle, a teacher who will bust anyone for anything. Miles, or Pudge, is a scrawny, tall character that remembers people’s last words. He goes to Culver Creek his junior year

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    Looking for Alaska “Last night Alaska Young was in a terrible accident” (Green 139), The words that changed everyone's lives. Miles Halter (pudge) starts attending a new school in Alabama, and he meets his three best friends (Alaska, the Colonel, and Takumi). Miles has a major crush on Alaska but can’t do anything about it, because she has a boyfriend. The three best friend do everything together including drinking, smoking, and pulling pranks. Until he only has two best friends left. Alaska

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    In Looking for Alaska by John Green the main protagonist, Miles Halter (Pudge), shows the first signs of the main theme in the first chapter. Life and death was a massive component of this novel for several reasons; Alaska Young’s central moment in her life was her mom’s death, Pudge is obsessed with people’s last dying words and Alaska ends up dying herself. However, even though death is found on every page of this novel, after Alaska dies they celebrate her spirit. So even though the dominant theme

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    “Looking for Alaska” – John Green About The Book & Expectations I chose the novel “Looking for Alaska” by John Green, because I already read a reading sample in my English lessons in Germany from this book and I really liked the style of writing the author used. I also chose this novel, because many of my friends said it was a good book and worth reading, besides the fact, that the book is well-known for some of its quotes (“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane”) and the awards

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    would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.” (pg. 219 John Green) This is one of Pudge’s final thoughts about Alaska after she dies in a car accident. This quote expresses how Pudge copes with her death, wondering about her final moments, her final words. "Do you even remember the person she actually was? Do you remember how she could be a selfish bitch? That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up." (Pg

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    The most important topic in the novel Looking for Alaska is friendship. Throughout the story Miles, nicknamed Pudge, experiences the ups and downs of friendship. Starting from square one, he has just begun attending Culver Creek Preparatory School and has to make all new friendships. He is immediately greeted by his new roommate Chip, known as the Colonel. As the book progresses, he is introduced to Alaska, Takumi, and Lara. Although they were all friends, the novel highlights how difficult it can

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    that challenges him. Looking for this, Miles goes to Culver Creek boarding school, where he finds his perhaps in a girl named Alaska Young, and this is where the book Looking for Alaska’s story begins to unfold its intricate layers of narrative. Though it is possible for a middle schooler to read this book, themes such as intimacy, suffering, and closure resound

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    In the book “Looking for Alaska” there are several attractive characters, but only three of them were the main Miles, Colonel, and Alaska. These characters were the best friends; each one of them had his/her own personality in the book. Miles was the new student in the school who was quite and lonely until he met his new friends and starts smoking and does other stuff that he did not use to do before. The colonel was a poor guy who tried to find his way to succeed by getting his mother proud of

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