L. P. Hartley

One of the best parts of being a librarian is seeing the impact the programs and community events have on the patrons being served. However, this is paralleled by the patron appreciation that can be seen as well. In communities where every-day needs are not being met and budgets, both inside and outside of the library are growing smaller, it is more important than ever to find creative and new ways to serve the community. Public libraries are excellent places to provide at-risk youth with…

How to live and die in John Green’s Looking for Alaska "There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them” (Denis Waitley). The novel Looking for Alaska by John Green is about a formerly lonely boy, Miles also known as Pudge, who is the protagonist and his ultimate goal is to seek a Great Perhaps. He arrives at Culver Creek Boarding School where he is immediately swept away and pulled into a fantasy by the antagonist,…

I have read the realistic fiction book, Looking for Alaska by John Green. The book starts with a boy named Miles “Pudge” Halter, who has a hard time with finding friends, likes biographies, and is fascinated by last words. Miles goes to attend a boarding school because he seeks “a great perhaps.” He soon meets his roommate Chip “The Colonel” Martin and his friend Alaska Young. Miles goes through the year with The Colonel and Alaska as his best friends and they go through amazing experiences with…

Looking for Alaska Rough Draft Simon Bolivar said, "Damn it,"..."How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!"(GREEN19). In the novel Looking for Alaska by John Green Miles, the narrator, and his friends Chip and Alaska seek to find a their way through the labyrinth of life. For each of them the labyrinth is representative of their personal life struggles , and the obstacles they face to "escape it". The labyrinth is different for each one of us , and we choose to face it in different ways. For…

By interpreting the author’s motivations through a Psychological Lens, it is clear that John Green’s childhood and the challenges he faced during it, show the comfort in his writing, through the concepts of protagonists, travel, and escape. When a reader reads Looking For Alaska and Paper Towns by John Green, it is evident that both books are extremely similar: not only do their protagonists have similar motives and traits, but also the concepts of travel and escape are noticeably similar…

The Thief of Always is a suspenseful full of action book by Clive Barker, he writes a book about how the protagonist Harvey has to face the antagonist Hood to free the children's souls aching to come out. The quartet is so loyal to Hood but does Hood really treat them the way they should be, is Hood really that cruel. The quartet Rictus, Marr, Carna and Jive are all Hood’s servant’s that he created with his magic but Hood is so cruel he can’t even treat them nicely. Since Hood treats his…

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…