Summer Reading Project: Looking for Alaska 4

I chose the book, Looking for Alaska; by John Green. One of the reasons I chose it is because it looked interesting to me! It had good reviews, and it just seemed like it would be good! Another reason I chose it is because it was written by John Green, who I have heard is a great writer. He wrote The Fault in Our Stars, which is a very popular book. I also read The Fault in Our Stars just before beginning this book, and I thought it was a really great book. So, this made me want to read Looking for Alaska even more! Although I enjoyed The Fault in Our Stars more, I still thought that Looking for Alaska was a good book. I would recommend this book to teenagers, because it is a book for teenagers. If you like books that are filled with action, I would recommend Looking for Alaska to you. This book has a lot of action in it! Also, if you don’t like books that are sad I would not recommend this book for you. This book is also very sad, so if you really don’t like sad books, this might not be the book for you!

Summer Reading Project: Looking for Alaska 3

“Between Mom and Dad and me, it only took a few minutes to unload the car, but my unair-conditioned dorm room, although blessedly out of the sunshine, was only modestly cooler. The room surprised me: I’d pictured plush carpet, wood-paneled walls, Victorian furniture. Aside from one luxury-a private bathroom- I got a box. With cinder-block walls coated thick with layers of white paint and a green-and-white-checkered linoleum floor, the place looked more like a hospital than the dorm room of my fantasies. A bunk bed of unfinished wood with vinyl mattresses was pushed against the room’s back window. The desks and dressers and bookshelves were all attached to the walls in order to prevent creative floor planning. And no air-conditioning “ (Green, 6).

This is at the beginning of the book, when Miles is just arriving to the boarding school. He is getting all of his stuff into his room, and is describing his room. This is just after he leaves from Florida. He walks into his room, trying to unload his stuff. He is trying to get comfortable with his new room, and school. He describes what he thought the room would look like, and what the room actually does look like, too.

Summer Reading Project: Looking for Alaska 2

I think that Miles, who is the main character just wants to make some friends. He tries to find friends since he did not really have many, from where he had used to live before he moved. I think he was excited to try and meet new people since he did not have many friends. I also think that Alaska, Miles’s friend, wants to prank people! I think that a common theme in this book is, always be kind. I said this because in the book, Miles was always very nice to everyone. He makes a few friends, and is nice to them too! He wasn’t even mean to the people that had done something very bad to him. He is always nice to everyone: his parents, his friends.... I also think that by adding the action to the book, and a lot of conflict made the book more structured. I think that if there was no conflict or action, the book would probably not be as good as it is now. It would probably be a lot more boring, and not be as popular as it is now. All of the things that happened in the book made it more structured, too.

Summer Reading Project: Looking for Alaska 1

The book I chose to read for my summer reading project is the book, Looking for Alaska; written by John Green. It is about a boy named Miles (his nickname is Pudge) who decides to leave his home in Florida to go to a boarding school in Alabama. When he arrives he meets his roommate, Chip (His nickname is Colonel) who he becomes better friends with. Chip talks to Miles, and then ends up going to see his other friend, Alaska. Miles meets her and they all become better friends. So the main characters of the story are Alaska, Miles, and Chip.  Also the setting in this story is the boarding school, Culver Creek which is in Alabama. A conflict in this story is how Miles tries to adjust to the new school. It was hard for him to find friends, and adjust to the new place. I predict that later in the book, Miles will get to know his friends much better. I also think that Chip will end up breaking up with his girlfriend, Sara. I think that the way this story is written is a little bit similar to John Green’s other book, The Fault in Our Stars.

Conflict and Character

In my writing The Argument, there are many different conflicts in the story. It is about how when I was little, I accidentally broke a window in my house. The biggest conflict in the story, is when the window broke. Like in the story I say, "When my mom came into the room she gasped, “How did you manage to do this?” She yelled. I stood silent. I couldn’t tell her, I mean the reason for the broken window was dumb anyway."

The other conflict I chose was in the show Drake and Josh. This show is about two brothers, who are constantly fighting with each other. But, even though they often are upset with each other, they usually forgive each other.

I think my examples are good because they both have conflict in them! In my first example, the conflict is easy to identify and shows it well. My second example is good because the characters are funny! There is also conflict in a lot of the episodes.

Character

The scene I chose is from the movie Mulan. In the movie China is at war, so when Mulan's father is  called upon to fight, Mulan begins to worry and become upset. Mulan already feels like she doesn't fit in right with the other women of China, because they are supposed to be proper, and perfect. Mulan makes a decision that effects the rest of the movie, by taking her dad's place at war. But, Mulan is technically not allowed to because she is a woman. Women are not allowed to fight at war, so Mulan dresses up as a man to try and trick the men in charge of the army. Mulan begins to prepare by taking her dad's armor and sword.

This shows good character because Mulan decides to save her dad from the dangerous war he was about to face. Mulan is not selfish because she risks her life by going into a war in which she has had no training for. She wants to keep her father safe. There are many conflicts in this scene, but the one I thought was the best is relationship conflict. The relationship with her father would be diffrent after she secretly took his place at war. But, she was okay with that because she does it to save him.

Specificity

I like this scene from The Hunger Games because it shows that Peeta is strong. He doesn't give up and Katniss helps to support him. He shows the other people that he is strong, and not weak. I also like it because the scene is filled with action. It is very entertaining, and action packed!