Looking For Alaska Setting

This is an appropriate title for this book because the story is about the main character, Miles, looking for a girl named Alaska. The title grabbed my attention because I knew it meant someone or something was searching for something by the word “looking”. I like the name of the book because it may make you think of something to do with the state Alaska but it twists your ways of thinking and is about and actual person named Alaska.
The time period of this book is in the present day. This probably means it is somewhere around the year of 2015. The time period remains the same throughout the whole book. The setting of Looking for Alaska mostly takes place on campus at Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama. Although, the story did begin off campus in Florida over …show more content…
He would rather read than social with anyone. Miles loved reading biographies about people’s last words before death. Mile’s is seeking for the “Great Perhaps” but meets some obstacles on the way.
The antagonist in this book actually isn’t a person, it is death. Death is the antagonist because this is what crushes Miles and causes problems. The death of Alaska is the biggest obstacle for all the …show more content…
One of the main feelings I felt while reading the beginning of this book was being uninterested. I felt uninterested because the book was very boring and didn't have many suspenseful parts at the beginning. Once I kept reading, I started to become way more interested because their was so much suspense. I also found myself sad at many parts because of the death of Alaska’s mother. I couldn’t imagine how hard it must be to lose a very important person in your life. It also made me sad when Alaska died and seeing how the other characters reacted to it. Many readers could feel such different emotions about Looking for