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In Looking For Alaska, John Green instantly pulls you into the life of Miles Halter, a shy, antisocial teenager who is ultimately looking for his “Great Perhaps” by attending a new boarding school. You’ll laugh, cry, and experience every moment as if you’re there with him. The story begins introducing Miles, who decides to leave his home in Florida to go to Culver Creek High School in Alabama as a rising junior. There he meets his roommate Chip, known as “The Colonel”, who gives him the…

Words… Words are everywhere, words make up books, and the power of words make The Book Thief as good as it'll ever get. Words help us communicate with others, but mainly they have positive and negative sides to them. In the novel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Death narrates the story while Liesel Meminger also tells her story of living in Nazi, Germany. There are many people who use words in positive words like Max and Liesel, but then theres this terrible person, Adolf Hitler who uses his…

Looking for Alaska, the book of teenage life, is a common book in school libraries. It is a book about teenagers at a boarding school who live their lives in a different way than many, but not all. Many parents would not like their kids to read the book, but many feel like they need to be exposed to the harsh reality of the book. This has became a debate on whether it needs to be banned or not. Looking for Alaska should not be banned, even though there are some negative scenes, the real meaning…

Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, Choice in ‘The Book Thief’ Jordahnn Eckensviller Macroeconomics - ECON 1007 November 7th N. Brown The novel ‘The Book Thief’ is about a young girls experience in Nazi Germany during Adolf Hitler’s reign. The novel is narrated by Death as he collects the lives of people surrounding Liesel Meminger – beginning with her younger brother, and ending the novel with death taking Liesel’s life many years after the war. During the novel it subtly describes…

The documentary Gaslands (2010) is directed and single-handedly narrated by Josh Fox. Living in Pennsylvania, right at the Upper Delaware River Basin, he faces an emotional crisis as he receives a letter from a natural gas company, as they want to lease his land and would willingly pay him $100,000. He is confused and left questioning the purpose and intention of this letter, which leaves him to search out and connect with other people who are facing this issue. He becomes aware that his land…

Words, by definition, are the spoken or written group of sounds and letters to convey a certain meaning. However, though often neglected by society, words contain great power. The novel, The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak, takes place in the quaint suburban town of Molching, near current-day Munich, on Himmel Street. The novel tells the tale of foster child Liesel Meminger, the book thief, and her experiences and adventures on Himmel as she adjusts into her new home during World War II.…

From past to present to the inevitable future, we as humans have done terrible things. Things like the Holocaust, countless wars, genocide, sex trafficking, terrorism, and many other events in which people lose faith in the world we live in. Most people will argue the fact that humanity is not beautiful, but ugly for these reasons, but it’s really both: humanity is beautiful because the world is ugly, there are definite relationships between the two opposites. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak…

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“Ya’ll smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.” John Green’s Looking for Alaska explores the concepts of life and death, or more specifically how to live and die. Main character, Miles Halter, desires an exciting life and decides to leave the safety of his home to attend Culver Creek boarding school. Here he meets trailer-bred genius Chip “the Colonel” Martin. The Colonel introduces him to a life of fun and mischief. More importantly, Miles discovers the beautiful, clever, and self-destructive Alaska…

Looking for Alaska Book Journal Book summary Miles Halter, a teenage boy who lives in Florida moves to Alabama for his junior year in High-School. Transferring to the same boarding school his father and uncle also attended, he started attending Culver Creek Preparatory School. Miles Halter, also known as “Pudge”, is especially fascinated by author’s last words and memorizes them passionately. Arriving at Culver Creek, he meets his roommate Chip “the Colonel” Martin. Shortly after he is…