Final Research Project (Looking for Alaska) by Joseph Wrensch

John Green

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John Green is an American author and YouTuber. There are over 50 million copies of his books worldwide, including “The Fault in Our Stars” which is one of his best selling books of all time. He is also well known online for his YouTube videos that he makes with his younger brother Hank Green. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and raised in Orlando, Florida before going to a boarding school just outside of Birmingham, Alabama. He went to Kenyon College and graduated with a double major in English and religious studies in 2000.

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Miles: the main character that is clueless when he gets to his new boarding school and just seems to go along with everything. He also likes to memorize the last words of famous figures.

Chip: Miles’ roommate who knows everyone and everything about the school. He is very casual tells everything how it is.

Alaska: mysterious and cool. Also knows almost everything about the school. The center of everything that her, Miles, Chip, and Takumi do together.

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Miles: “I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.”

Chip: “I’d shake your hand, but I think you should hold on damn tight to that towel till you can get some clothes on.”

Alaska: “But there is so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I’ll have more time for reading when I’m old and boring.”

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Miles “Pudge” Halter’s whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the “Great Perhaps” even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Miles into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.

270064_10 — 2025-05-27 17:34:17 UTC

I definitely recommend reading this book. It was John Green’s first novel and certainly one of his best. This was one of my favorite books, it was very exciting, entertaining to read, and always kept me guessing which made it fun as well.

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