Commentary On Looking For Alaska By Karmac Mccarthy

by Russell Baker. He writes about how he was considered to not have "gumption" by his mother and others; he preferred to read comic books and such instead of working or doing chores. He does start selling the

The book I have chosen to review is Boy 21, a fictional read that is written by Matthew Quick. Quick is a New York Times best-selling author debuting in novels such as The Silver Linings Playbook and Love May Fail. To best describe this book, it is a captivating read that is comforting for the mind, as it canvasses the raw and unflinching life of a high school senior who displays love for basketball and life relationships. Furthermore, set in a troubled Belmont city of Philadelphia, Quick incorporates the presence of mobs and violence which is captivating towards the reader and audience. I was intrigued about how the novel was written through Finley the main protagonist, which was Quick’s childhood perspective of life in Philadelphia and his passion towards basketball.

This wasnt a hard book to read and was easy to keep up with all the detail and dialouge that appeared on every page. There was nothing confusing about this story. The auother really knew where the story was going and how every bit of dialouge counted and had a reason of being said. From reading many teenage love story this isnt that different from them all because they all have the same elements of climax like when Kate gets jealous when Richard brought Fleur along. Finally being done with the story i have to say my favorite part was when Richard took Kate ice skating alone, just the two of them and he couldent skate very well so Kate had to help him. This is definitely a new favorite of

(MIP) In this book, the readers can clearly see that people have a loss of emotions.(SIP) This meme is trying to tell the audience to resist using their technology so they don’t lose their emotions like the characters in Bradbury’s novel. (STEWE-1) The main character Montag meets a young girl named Clarisse.They immediately become fond of each other and start to have many conversations. Just as they were getting to know each other, Montag finds out that Clarisse has died. When he starts to talk about her, Mildred doesn’t care and doesn’t feel sad that a young girl passed away.“‘She 's dead. Let 's talk about someone alive for goodness sake”(68). We can see that Mildred only cares about herself and her happiness. She doesn’t have any sympathy towards Clarisse and her family who’s bearing with a loss. (STEWE-2) As Montag starts to read a book to her, he comes across a point “‘That favorite subject, Myself”’(68), Mildred then responds saying “‘I understand that one”’(68). Mildred barely thinks about life, but when she does, it 's only about herself and herself only. She won’t have a single thought about others, not even her husband. (SIP-B)The book clearly shows that people in the society have no feelings towards others as they kill and hurt each other. (STEWE-1) When Montag gets angry, he says he has the urge to smash and kill things. Mildred tells him to take the car and drive fast outside. She says “It’s fun out in the country. You hit rabbits, sometimes you hit dogs”’(61).

In John Green’s novel Looking for Alaska there are many symbols ranging from cigarettes to flowers. The symbols in this novel play a major role in helping to better understand the novel and it’s meaning. The cigarettes, the white flowers, and the smoking hole all represent different things in this novel but all together they help to paint a picture of what this novel is really about.

We don’t want to be busted on how we perceived towards someone, notably when the affections are over or gone, especially when all your feeling is buried through written –a retreat letter, which you kept so much like your deepest secrets lies on it. However, New York Times bestselling author Jenny Han made me feel how twitchy and embarrassing it was to be busted through Lara Jean story in her book To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. The story of the silly and childish Lara Jean and on how she handle the most cringe worthy time of her teenage life –all her letters for her past crushes with no forethought of sending it to them was sent one day without her permission that results a great alter.

So much to tell you by John Marsden is a not very long book. The book consists of 150 pages, and is about a 14 year old girl named Mariana, who can’t speak after her father threw acid in her face. Her father didn't mean to hit her but her mother, but missed. This caused Mariana trauma and her living on a mental hospital for a while but then moved to a boarding school.

The Witch of the Blackbird Pond was about a girl named “Kit” or Katherine Tyler who ended up meeting a lady named Hannah Tuff, who people thought was a witch. Kit’s journey began when she moved to Wethersfield to live with her aunt named Rachael after her grandfather passed away. She traveled on a boat called the dolphin, and met Nat Eaten and flirted and hung out with him. She also met a polite, young man named John Holbrook. During the trip they stopped by America, and Kit got off the boat. While getting back on, a small child dropped her toy and pitched a fit, but no one moved so Kit dived in and grabbed it. Then Nat jumped in to save her because he did not think she was able to swim. When they arrived in Wethersfield, she told the captain that she didn’t tell her aunt she was coming, but when Rachael saw her she was happy and let her stay. It was pretty hard to adapt to the new place, and do labor that her old slaves used to do.

Teacup Full of Roses was written in 1987 by Sharon Bell Mathis, an author who was a special education teacher in junior high school in Washington, library media specialist and author of several books for young people. Teacup Full of Roses is ALA notable book written completely in inspirational and emotional manner. By using a lot of family discussion to write her novel, Mathis is able to keep her reader’s attention by conveying her ideas descriptively throughout the whole book.

This novel was very interesting because the plot and climax were well written and the author well expressed the feeling of the main character. The author described the setting well and could picture he was trying to get out.The

I didn 't like this book. The characters all seemed like boring, lifeless, stereotypes. The book was told from multiple points of view, but I found myself forgetting which person I was reading about. They

Emotions are something that many people find hard to talk about, especially if these emotions create a negative outlook on the person expressing them. Many novels will bring up these emotions in characters, but not address the feelings directly. However, there is one book that develops that emotional connection between the reader and the characters, but that book has come close to being banned. The book The Catcher in the Rye has created controversy over the sexual content, the illegal substance use, and the mature language. However, the book has also been recognized for its blunt honesty and open speech. This novel should be taught in high schools today due to the way in which it can help eliminate loneliness and fear because of the discussions that a class can have based on this novel.

While looking into McCandless’s Alaskan experience, it is clear that he entered unprepared. It is still unclear whether McCandless should be solely looked down upon because of this mistake. Carol Burbank proposes to look at McCandless in a different perspective. She focuses on leadership and the possible leadership qualities McCandless may possess. Burbank seems to have a view that is in between the extremes. She writes “we are always both heroic and foolish, whether we succeed or fail”(Burbank 2). For Burbank, it is important to recognize that “visionary leadership would accept both foolishness and heroism as part of a profoundly human journey”(Burbank 2). Furthermore, it seems as Burbank is support of McCandless when she says “Like McCandless, if we want to follow our vision, we must go to a place we have never been before, in our own way” (Burbank 2). All in all, Burbank believes that risks are necessary to progress in the life, and that we have to be willing to look like fools to eventually become a hero. McCandless, for

That was the symbolizing in real life ,but symbolism in Looking for Alaska would be teens smoking for some self control which is the same thing as in real life. Many teens, along with the characters of Looking for Alaska thing they have no control in their life and there constantly being babysit my their parents, they don 't realize the how much they have to lose due to the fact that there smoking. They think they are overruling their life 's by making choices like smoking, just because they know they aren 't suppose to be and there breaking the rules. There purpose to smoke is a form of

“Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth? (García)” This is a question that was riddled throughout a book I read two weeks ago titled Looking for Alaska. This quote from the biography of Simon Bolivar is quintessential to the plot of the novel and truly impacted the way I feel and view the world we live in. The narrator seeks a “Great perhaps” and soon faces the question of how we can escape the labyrinth of sorrow. This forces you as the reader to subconsciously ask and answer the same question, which is why I believe that everyone should read this novel.