English summer assignment post #4

Looking for Alaska by John Green

I chose this book for many reasons. The first reason is that I have two sisters who have previously read this book and gave very good ratings on it and recommended it. The second reason was that we already had this book in our house so there was no reason to go and buy a different book if we already had it. This book was also chosen by many of my peers so I thought it would be good if I read it also. One connection I made after reading this book was that I will probably share a similar college experience with some of these people with pranking my roommates and other kids around campus. I would recommend this book to middle school or high school kids. This is because there are some parts where you have to be mature about the situation at hand. Also, because this book gives them an idea of what their college experience could be like in the future at their college. I would also recommend this book to people who like John Green as an author because this is a very good book written by him and is similar to his other books.

English summer assignment post #3

Looking for Alaska by John Green

“Christ! You could have drowned! They’re just supposed to throw you in the water in your underwear and run! What the hell were they thinking! Who was it? Kevin Richman and who else? Do you remember their faces?” (pg. 28).

This is a hook because at this point in the book which is early, you did not expect stuff to happen so quickly. This prank surprises the reader and makes them want to reads more. And once you find out that they weren’t supposed to duct tape him together and just throw him in the lake in his underwear, the reader is shocked and is wondering why they have tapped him together. The Colonel, his roommate, is even surprised which makes us confused as why he wanted them to throw Pudge in the lake and why the people who did it, taped him. This part in the book is a thing that causes many other things to unfold. Once you learn further information that is given like Alaska turning in her roommate, the reader gets sucked into the book and can’t put it down. This is what makes writers like John Green so popular among teenagers.

English summer assignment post #2

Looking for Alaska by John Green

The characters in this book are very basic in the beginning but when you read more and more and learn secrets and things about them, they become complex. Miles in the beginning just wants to make friends and fit in and belong to a group of people. He then becomes closer and closer to these people. Miles eventually lets the readers know but not the characters that he likes Alaska. He wants to be with her all the time and he even stays home on Thanksgiving break to be with her. Chip seems very tough and cool in the beginning but once Miles gets closer to him, they become really good friends and Miles learns about the softer side that Chip has. Alaska is like a puzzle to Miles. One moment she is crazy and drinking alcohol and the next she is crying over being lonely and not seeing her boyfriend. Alaska likes to have fun and prank people but sometimes she can go too far with the pranks. There are a few themes that have appeared to far in this book. One is a person’s actions can hurt more than just themselves. Another is the people a person spends the most time with is whom they most closely resemble. This book is structured with lots of dialogue but also lots of Miles thoughts.

English summer assignment post #1

Looking for Alaska by John Green

I chose the book Looking for Alaska by John Green to read for my English summer assignment. There are three major characters in this book but there are two others that play a role in this book. The first major character is Miles “Pudge” Halter. The book is told from his point of view and is his thoughts are given in the text. Miles is from the Orlando area in Florida. He is a skinny kid who is also tall. His dad also went to this boarding school when he was Miles age. The next major character in this book is Chip “Colonel” Martin. Chip is Miles new roommate at boarding school. Chip is from south of Birmingham, Alabama where he lives with his mom. His dad lives out in California. The last major character in the book is Alaska Young. Alaska Young is from Vine Station, Alabama. She lived with her dad but her mom died when she was seven. These three characters all meet up at Culver Creek boarding school in Birmingham, Alabama. The school is not very big but normal college stuff happens during the school year. The year before, Alaska’s roommate get expelled because someone ratted her out about what she was doing like drugs. People blamed Colonel for doing it but it wasn’t him. A prank war has erupted between the three major characters and the people who have been blaming them. I think that one of the pranks is going to go too far and Alaska is going to disappear. This book has a very similar plot to The Fault in our Stars by John Green also.

Review about the book

At the end of the last book, Percy and Anna Beth got seperated sepparated from the rest of the group. Tnis caused some seriuos issues. Now there is another problem. Monsters are now dying but coming back to the real world right away. They figure out that the doors of death are open. So their new goal is to close them from both sides. But do they complete their overall goal? The type of reader that would enjoy this book is someone who likes how Rick Riordan writes. I would give this book a 4 out of 5 stars.

Write a prediction about furture events in the plot

There are so many possibilities for what could happen. A lot has already happened so far. But there is one thing that I think is going to happen. I think that one of the main characters is going to die. I think that they will die doing something heroic. Because I mean come on, why would an author kill a person off if its a stupid death. I also think that all the characters will achieve their main goal. But some complication is going to come up and cause trouble.

describe setting of novel

The setting of the novel is in the Atlantic Ocean, America, and the underworld. The book starts out in Italy but quickly moves to the Atlantic Ocean. There it just talks about the blue sea and monsters that they encounter. But then they arrive in America. There they quickly move across the US to accomplish their main goal. But the other half of the story is in the underworld with Percy and Annabeth. There they try to accomplish a similar goal to the others. But their goal is different in a miniture way.