John Green's Looking For Alaska

Written with gorgeous and passionate literature, Green’s novel is flooded with an array of events. For this novel to be John Green’s first ever published book, is outstanding. Not only because it’s the first book he published, but because of the content within this novel. He does a beautiful job with creating and writing this novel and bringing it to life within its pages. The protagonist of the novel, Miles Halter, is new at attending Culver Creek Preparatory School. Miles, nicknamed “Pudge,” goes from living at home and not having many friends and spending his time memorizing famous last words, to attending a boarding school and finding a group of friends and goes on adventures. Along the way, Miles falls in love with the infamous Alaska …show more content…
The way Green describes each event is done with such passion and grace that some authors tend to lack within parts of their novels. Throughout the entire novel, Green keeps the passion and grace and that plays a significant role in this novel. Writing about death is not easy, there has to be a way to have the readers imagine and feel the situation and that is exactly what Green proposed in his first novel. John Green has a way of making the reader vigorously imagine each character and event within each page of his novels. In Looking for Alaska, Green filled each page with such emotional appeal that readers have no choice but to automatically connect themselves not only to the book, but within it as well. That type of writing is every author's main goal to accomplish somewhere along their writing career, Green just so happened to accomplish that in his very first novel. Dealing with grief is also another difficult task to accomplish writing in a novel as well. Green took this opportunity to really connect with readers in this situation. Everyone deals with grief differently, and Green really did think of that when it came to finishing this