LOOKING FOR ALASKA by JOHN GREEN

Looking For Alaska is about young Miles Halter(Pudgy) who leaves home Florida for Alabama in order to attend Culver Creek Preparatory School,a place his dad had once went to when he was a teenager himself. At Culver Creek,Miles meets Chip Martin (Colonel),a roommate of his in the school. Miles then interacts with Alaska Young,a good friend of Chip's. Throughout the journey of his friendship with Chip and his friends,he discovers many things along the way.

The story has two parts to it,the Before and the After. The two parts indicate the times Miles had before Alaska Young had died and then the effects and outcomes of it all after she had lost her life.I find it really interesting in how John Green had continued the story majorly after Alaska's death. In most novels,the story ends just a little after an important living element of the story dies,telling the isolation or happiness it might of caused and then abruptly ends. But this story continued right on,with the Colonel,Takumi and Miles investigating reasons of her death; suicide? Accident?

Throughout the novel there is smoking,drinking,sex,hangovers,etc. When talking about such things in the book,it is realistically written.The authour doesn't try to put a cherry on top or express the reality of these things in a worse or better form,just putting it in its original truth.Even though we are looking into Miles story,we get a huge glimpse of others stories,when I say glimpse,I mean a huge glimpse.

The story looks deeply into struggles that young people can face.It teaches you that,in order to be happy,you need to be able to move on and forgive. Honestly,I think parents recommending this book to their kids would be a really smart choice.If you're young,knowledge could be gained from from this book.And no, I don't mean Historical or Math knowledge entirely,I mean 'life' knowledge. Here are just some words that might give you an idea of what the story consists of; searching,friendship,loss,last words,discovering,love,investigating,pranks.These are just some of the things that come straight across my mind when I am reminded of this novel.

A funny,compassionate and realistic book produced by a very talented authour.

Favourite quotes: 

“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.” 

“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.” 

“Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.”