Young, Wild and Free

Kyleigh Hairston

Looking For Alaska
John Green

What if you went on a life changing journey to find your great perhaps? What would you're life end up looking like?  Looking For Alaska follows a boy named Miles "Pudge" Halter, who's talent is remembering famous people's final words. Pudge doesn't like his safe life at home and wants to search for his great perhaps like poet Francois Rabelais. He decides to leave home and go to a boarding school called Culver Creek in Alabama, where he meets the most interesting people he will ever meet. On his first day there he meets Chip "Colonel" Martin who introduces him to Alaska Young and Takumi, who eventually end up becoming close friends.

In the beginning of the novel you can tell that there is a connection between Pudge and Alaska. She shares a lot with Pudge, but at the same time don't really tell him anything. Throughout the novel they get closer and closer despite the fact that Alaska has a boyfriend (who she eventually breaks up with) and that Pudge is crushing hard on a girl who he threw up on.

At Culver Creek there are two separate groups of people. One group is the Weekday Warriors. They are your stereotypical rich kids who don't live at the boarding school and get everything they want. The Weeday Warriors and Pudge and his friends don't get along very well. They're always playing jokes on each other which causes more and more problems. Every time one group pulls a prank the other group fires back with another. This back and forth stuff eventually gets out of hand and causes Alaska and The Colonel to come up with a big plan to fire back. Their prank is aimed towards all Weekday Warriors and can get the expelled if they get caught by the eagle aka the dean.

This novel is one of those books that makes you feel like you really understand and can relate to the characters very well. For me reading is very boring because I can never find a book that I like. Reading a book with a character as outgoing and interesting as Alaska, a boy who is looking for something good out of life and a deep message that is conveyed makes reading Looking For Alaska a thousand times better. Coming from someone who isn't a big fan of reading, when I picked up Looking For Alaska I knew it was a book I would definitely love reading  and recommend to everyone. If you like any other book by John Green or a book about finding yourself then I would definitely recommend that you read Looking For Alaska!