Looking For Alaska | John Green  |  BOOK REVIEW
Channel: Sylwester Productions
Date: 2017-12-23

A great book, well worth a read that is nothing too heavy.

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Looking for Alaska.
John Green

This is the second John Green book that I've read and reviewed. My review of Paper Towns is linked right below.

It's easy for me to see that his work shares similarities, and this book is no outlier

The book is focused around a 16 yr old boy named Miles who later becomes known as "Pudge"
He for the first time is going to a prestigious boarding school. This is where the majority of events in the book take place.

Just like Greens other works, this book centers around relationships, friendships and growing up.
Pudges roommate is called Chip, who is a muscular short boy that takes honour very seriously, this earns him the nickname of Colonel.
Across the hall is a girl named "Alaska" she's as complex as they come, being beautiful and witty, but ultimately constantly contradicting herself and showing some mental unstableness.
You also have Takumi, a Japanese friend of Alaska and Colonel as well as Lara, a cute Romanian girl

All of these people are different in part but inevitably teach us some important lessons to learn.

Already, just a few chapters into the book we are introduced to the predicament that will seclude what the group believes about themselves and each other. They will begin to question reality.

In the first bulk of the book, the group befriends one another learning an increasingly amount about each other as one day leads into the next.
But the story isn't really focused on everyone. It's focused on Pudge and his admiration of Alaska. 
Alaska has a boyfriend, who she loves. She has a profound love for books, is a talented havoc manifester and rather unsurprisingly is a heavy smoker.
She is everything pudge's parents told him to stay away from, yet he can do all but that.
The group engages is all sorts of boisterous behaviour, skipping classes, smoking and drinking on campus. They get caught once but use their trust to cover for one another.

A few interesting things happen here and there, but in general all remains the same. Until the Thanksgiving break. Most of the sudens go home, but Alaska persuades Pudge to remain on campus with her. They get to know each other to a further degree, drinking wine and essentially becoming best friends.
I’m going to leave the school occurrences here and let you enjoy the res when you read it.

Alaska is such undoubtedly an intriguing character I have to say. She lead the whole friend group, is the mastermind behind the pranks and constantly flirts while still having a dear boyfriend.  
She leads Miles into a labyrinth of emotions that, after a shattering tragedy, leave him wondering if there's any way out.


So for some other thoughts concerning the book:
The vast majority of it is fitted with the messages of three highly popular religions, Islam, Christianity and Buddhism. We aren't forced to dissipate our beliefs but rather contrary, Green shows us the similarities between each in a few different areas of discussion. These join together into the absolute message of that suffering is a present part of the copious part of our lives, and although we can try and escape suffering there is only real way. By accepting it and forgiving.
At least that's what I got from the book, it's all individual interpretation really though.

Anyways, Looking For Alaska is an amazing story that is both funny and sad and extremely compelling. I highly recommend this this book to any young readers or if you like any of John Greens other works.



never accept normality