By Daniel Dompierre
The book Looking For Alaska by John Green is about love, confusion,
tragedy, and heartbreak.
During the first chapter,
they introduce the main character, Miles, a skinny, white 16 year old boy, who
has always faded into the background. After arriving to Culver Creek, the
boarding school he's now going to, and saying his final goodbyes to his
parents, he arrives at his room, and decides to sleep. Which he instantly
regrets, since Alabama's heat is so much different from Florida's heat. After
he finishes showering, he meets his roomate, Chip Martin, nicknamed the
Colonel, who has memorized all of the countries in alphabetical order. When
finished with delivering their furniture to their room, they meet the love
interest, Alaska. According to Miles, Alaska is drop-dead gorgeous, insanely
beautiful, and, to him, just perfect. That basically sums up the first the
chapter.
In this book, there were
a lot of pros, and very little cons. John Green has written a multitude of
books, many of which are in the same genre, but from this book you can see that
even great authors have flaws. A few pros were that it was interesting, there
was an abundance of characters, multiple plots, and the perfect amount of love
and tragedy.
The cons were that at
points in the book, it kind of lulls you to sleep where you have to read the
same part over and over. Plus, there were multiple parts where I think the book
could be immensely improved, and it feels like a few characters were barely
recognized in the story, like they should have been in a few more parts of the
book. Overall, this was a very good book, and great for any student from 8th
grade on up. Overall, I give it a 7.5 out of 10.
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