In my last post I talked briefly about the main characters. Now
I’m going to talk about their wants and desires. So let’s start with Alaska. Alaska
kind of wants what everyone wants; to be happy. It goes deeper than that though, she
wants to go back and change the past with what happened with her mother. She
wants her father to love her. She wants a home. She never wants to leave the
Creek because while she may have a house, she does not have a home. Miles is simpler.
He has a good family back home with a mom and a dad who love him. He wants
something he likes to call a “Great Perhaps” There’s a quote from the book that
shows this, “That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start
seeking a Great Perhaps.” He wants a
life that is anything but boring, he wants crazy, he wants the beautiful,
funny, interesting, messed up, anything-but-innocent Alaska.
Now let’s move onto themes. There are always multiple themes in every book you read. There are
simple themes in Looking For Alaska like love, trust, grief and friendship, but
there are also deeper themes like self-discovery, someone’s life can change the
way you see things, there is more to someone than you will ever know, take initiative
and make a change in your life. Books are full of messages waiting for people
to find.
The book is structured in a very unusual way I have never seen before
as a reader. The book is split into two parts, a before and an after. In before,
the individual passages are like a countdown, starting 136 days before an event
we don’t know about. After the event, the book counts up to the end of the
story. This gives the book a unique kind of suspense.
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