Entry post 2

In this blog post, we will be talking to you about the desires of each character, along with the themes that begin to appear in my book. I will also talk about the unique structure of my book. My characters have interesting desires. Miles really and truly desires Alaska. When he first meets Alaska in the book, he describes her as “the most beautiful girl in the world”. He also desires some friends from this new boarding school. He finds them thankfully. Alaska desires a lot of things. She desires her boyfriend Jake. She desires sex. She desires to know what the Great Perhaps is. She also especially desires her cigarettes. Chip desires someone to be loyal to him and the opposite. Chip strongly desires revenge if someone has done him wrong. Some themes that arouse in my book are the themes of friendship and loyalty. Throughout the book, the four friends stick together and are extremely loyal to each other. The structure of the book is too cool! The book doesn’t use chapters. It uses how many days before it happens as marks. The it I am talking about will shake all of the characters world… If you want to find out what happens, read the book.

Entry Post One

In this blog post, we will be exploring the main characters in the novel. We will also be exploring the setting of the novel, along with some connections that we can make to other things from this book. In the novel Looking for Alaska, the setting is strange for a book. The main setting is at the Culver Creek boarding school in the middle of nowhere Alabama. This affects the book because it makes the book unique. The main characters in this book are Alaska, Miles, Chip, and Takumi. Alaska is a very moody person. She is always in a different mood which makes her hard to understand. Miles is the new kid. He has social anxiety and is normally very awkward. His friends help him to express himself. Takumi is a Japanese student. He mostly just plays the “extra friend” role. He hasn’t done much to affect the plot. Some conflicts in this book could be connected to person-to-person. In the book so far, it has always been the rich kids versus the poor kids. Miles, Alaska, Chip (the Colonel) and Takumi are the poorer kids. Another conflict that happens is when Miles starts using cigarettes. This is a person-to-self conflict.