Summer Reading Assighnment: Post 1: Looking For Alaska

The book I chose to read for my summer reading project is Looking For Alaska. There are a couple main characters in the book that the story revolves around. The first main character is Miles Halter, also known as “Pudge”. The other main character is Alaska Young. The story revolves around there friendship and how it evolves and changes throughout he book. Chip Martin, mainly known as “Colonel” is another big character in the book being that he introduced Pudge to Alaska and continues to be a big part in the rest of the story through his friendship with both Miles and Alaska. The setting of the book is a boarding school called Culver Creek. Culver Creek is where the main characters live and go to school. The boarding school is what complete changes Miles life from boring to crazy. While there are different types of conflict throughout the book, the main kind would have to be self to self conflict. Both Alaska and Miles show great amounts of self-conflict. They both show self-conflict on how they feel about each other, but there’s so much more than that, especially with Alaska. There is also some man vs. man conflict between the “Weekday Warriors” and the “regular boarders”. The weekday warriors are the stuck up rich kids at the school and the regular boarders are, well the regular people; pretty self-explanatory. Looking For Alaska is written by John Green, the amazing writer that wrote The Fault in Our Stars. Both books connect with a sense of love, but Looking For Alaska is such a unique kind of “love story”. It doesn’t really connect to other things I have read in a deep connection. It’s innovative, it’s original, it’s amazing.