Themes In Looking For Alaska By George Orwell

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them” is a quote that Albert Einstein once said. As I was reading the three books of, 1984 by George Orwell, Looking for Alaska by John Green, and The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins I noticed that they all had the common theme, acceptance. The authors of these books had different ways of dealing with this theme of acceptance. Some went the happy way of life and some went to the dark. Although each had a different ending they all related in a way. In 1984 the acceptance was dealing with society. The main character, Winston didn’t agree with the way of life surrounding him. Once he found someone else in the same situation with him, Julia, they rebelled together. First, mainly for sexual reasons later on grew into a more serious rebellion phase. When they were caught and tortured mentally and physically, they both started to accept the change. The two of them let go of fighting for what they initially believed in and accepted the society for what it was. Winston and Julia changed and accepted to love the society, they loved Big Brother. The Bildungsroman book that I read, Looking for Alaska, …show more content…
Just like 1984, they didn’t like the society surrounding them. Labeling each group and separating the higher and lower classes majorly. I believed this book had acceptance at even turn. Once they were selected into the Hunger Games, there was no turning back, so they just acceptance what was in front of them. When they both won, they took that acceptance into hatred and fighting back. As the first book just accepted and learned to love the society, this book actually rebelled and fought back. In the end it’s not always what you wanted it to be, but you should always fight for what you believe in. Accepting that they needed a change, and that wasn’t going to happen unless they did something gave them enough power to fight