Looking for Alaska

by John Green
 • American author and YouTube content creator
• he won the 2006 Printz Award (the best teenage
John Green book) for his novel Looking for Alaska
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Paper Towns
• Turtles all the way down and more
• educationalYouTube channel with his brother
Hank Green
 Genre: young adult fiction
Main characters:
Miles Halter ("Pudge")
Genre Miles Halter is the novel's main character and
and characters narrator.
Alaska Young
Alaska is clever, wild and funny but can also be pretty
moody. She loves reading and doing pranks. Miles
falls in love with her almost immediately.
Chip Martin ("Colonel")
Alaska's best friend and Miles' roommate.
He is very intelligent but also very funny. He's coming from a
poor background, he is obsessed with loyalty , especially towards his mother,
Dolores, who lives in a trailer.
Takumi
Takumi is friend of Alaska and Chip.
Lara
Alaska's friend. She becomes Miles' girlfriend and, eventually, ex-girlfriend.
  Miles is a normal boy who likes to read biographies
of famous writers, presidents, artists etc.
He especially likes learning and remembering their
last words. Inspired by last words of
poet Francois Rabelais,
he decides to apply for boarding school in
Alabama called Culver Creek in order to seek for
Plot “the Great Perhaps”.
 There he meets his roommate Chip Martin also known as
“Colonel”, Takumi and Alaska.
 Miles falls in love with Alaska, but she has a boyfriend, so
he starts dating with a girl called Lara.
• Alaska doesn’t like going home because her house is, as she says “full of ghosts”. Miles
later discovers that she lives only with her father after her mother died when Alaska
was little.
She thinks that it's her fault because she panicked and didn't call the ambulance.
• One night, it seems like Miles finally expressed his feelings to Alaska and they spend
the night with each other, when suddenly Alaska receives a phone call. She's drunk and
she's insisting that she has to leave. Miles and Colonel are also drunk, so they let her go
and she drives away.
• In the next morning they discover that Alaska
had a car accident and are wondering why she didn’t even try to prevent it.
• They realize that Alaska died on the morning after the anniversary of her mother's
death and conclude that Alaska was in rush to go to mother's grave.
• However, at the end of the story it's not mentioned whether her death was an accident
or suicide.
  The book is mainly for teenagers.
 I like the fact that even when it’s a lovestory, it isn’t
“too sweet” so it’s also suitable for boys.
 In this book you can see and understand why are ch
My opinion, aracters acting in certain ways.
moral of the story  I have mixed feelings because of the unexplained
and ending.
recommendation  Moral of the story:
the pain of letting go someone you love, but also
that people sometimes fall in love
with idealized illusions and versions of people they
made up in their head.
  Simultaneously - súčasne, zároveň
 Vicious - krutý, zlý, uštipačný (poznámka napr.)
New words  Immaculately-bezchybne, dokonale
 Taunt -narážka, výsmech, doberať si nekoho
Thank you for your attention!