Looking For Alaska Quotes

In the book Looking for Alaska by John Green Miles Halter hopelessly falls for Alaska Young. A girl he would never be able to have as she already has a boyfriend. He still strives to get the girl of his dreams though, and he tries everyday. “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” I think that this quote is important because it shows how Miles sees himself in comparison to Alaska. He sees himself as a uninteresting guy who has grown up with very few friends and doesn’t have anything spectacular about him besides memorising famous people's last words. When he meets Alaska he finds a girl who he believes is one of the most interesting girls he's ever met. Alaska brings him into a whole new world full of things he never would have thought of trying before. He starts smoking and joining her and Chip …show more content…
While Lily goes to Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She grows up to die young and have her son become one of the most renowned and famous wizards of all time. Leaving Petunia to be the drizzle out of the two and Lily to be the hurricane. I can relate the quote to my life with me and my friend Mac who lives in Texas. Mac plays on a travel hockey team in Texas but no teams are around him so he has to drive a long way for his hockey practices. For games and tournaments he travels out of state for every one of his games. He also has family that lives in Buffalo so every summer and winter he comes up here. I don’t travel out of state or drive anywhere farther than South Buffalo everyday and am on the Varsity Gymnastics team. Compared to him I’m the drizzle and he’s the hurricane. In John Green’s book Looking for Alaska Miles Young falls for a girl who is one of the most interesting girls he has ever talked to, leaving him to compare her to a hurricane and himself to a