Entry One

Looking for Alaska by John Green, is a story following a junior named, Miles Halter, which the characters call Pudge. When Pudge decides to follow the dying words of a poet, which was “I go to seek a great perhaps”. He decides he didn’t want to wait until he dies to seek a great perhaps, so he convinces his parents to send him to Culver Creek, a boarding school in Birmingham, Alabama. Where he meets friends that will change his life forever, his roommate Chip “the colonel” Martin and Alaska Young. Throughout the story Pudge is conflicted with himself about a number of things, for example, his great perhaps and what happened to Alaska Young. While reading this book a couple of questions crossed my mind. 1. Why it’s called Looking for Alaska, if they already know where she is? 2. Why hundred and thirty six days before and after? 3. How did John Green come up these pranks? Looking for Alaska is like John Green other works, by being the story of a kid who is almost out of high school and having a love story squeezed in there somewhere. This book reminded me of several songs, but one song that I thought fit best with the story is Who Knew by P!nk.