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.