Looking For Alaska

(AMHS) trips within Alaska & the Alaska Coast Highway system provide year-round transportation service to & from more than 30 communities in Alaska. In the southern entrance to the city from Bellingham, Washington & from the British Columbia Rupert Prince port to the various ports in Alaska. Many Alaskan communities are not easily accessible by the road, so sea or air travel must be considered. This sea route is very special, determined to be an All-American Road & National Scenic…...

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, causing almost 600,000 deaths in 2016 alone. However, most Americans do not know about common cancer risk factors like obesity and lack of exercise . In Alaska, cancer is the leading cause of death, with Alaska Native people disproportionately burdened by cancer and associated risk factors ]. Between 2009-2013, the cancer mortality rate for Alaska Native people was 40% higher than U.S. Whites. However, the leading causes of…...

Everybody in the world is tasked with finding a unique future and individualism. Throughout the fictional novel of Looking for Alaska, the universal theme of searching for one's own self-identity is presented. Miles Halter, the main protagonist of the story, searches inside himself while under the care and schooling of Culver Creek. In this newfound home, he makes numerous friends and takes part in pranks and other harmful actions. Searching for his Great Perhaps, Miles changes the setting of the…...

'Looking for Alaska', John Green's Debut novel was published in 2005.The novel is about a group of lost, but additionally very intelligent teenagers, who attend Culver Creek Boarding School for their first junior year. They are on the contrary to shallow, more or less precise opposite; Alaska Young, Miles Halter and Chip Martin's thought are as deep as the Mariana trench. Their complicated way of looking at life, thirst for an adventure, seeking simplicity and comprehension in an intricate world…...

In Looking for Alaska by John Green, the protagonist, Miles “Pudge” Halter, is very dynamic. In the beginning of the book, Pudge had no friends and was looking for what he calls the “Great Perhaps.” So he goes away to boarding school and meets “The Colonel”, Takumi, Lara, and Alaska. They were all immediate friends but Alaska and Pudge were drawn to each other. Pudge went from only having his mother and father at his going away party to having…...

Many parallels can be drawn between the main protagonists in John Green's Looking for Alaska, and J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. Although these two coming of age novels differ greatly in setting and in circumstance, many of the broader, more fundamental themes in each are actually quite similar. John Green was very much influenced by J.D. Salinger, and even admitted that Miles "Pudge" Halter in Looking For Alaska, was based largely off of Holden Caulfield, the main character in…...