Self Discovery In Looking For Alaska

The novel “Looking for Alaska” written by John Green is predominately about self discovery. I found this novel was filled with overwhelming emotions that connected and allured me deeper as the novel carried on.
I think the theme adolescence this novel portrays is very relevant to todays world because young teenagers are all going through a intimidating and perplexing time and this book relates to the way they feel and see the world in a way they can understand and relate to.

Protagonist Miles’ is pursuing a “great perhaps.” Justification of why he left home to Culver creak boarding school. “I go to seek a great perhaps” is a phrase from Francois Rabelais’ last words, which for the entire novel sets the tone.
Awaiting at Culver creak was Alaska Young, who is on her own escape from “this
Yet I personally think that Miles found his great perhaps within himself. It would have taken a lot of courage to go to boarding school, make new friends, face difficulties, commit and to eventually love Alaska.

I think Miles’ journey of hurtful rejection, deep self discovering and devoted loving was not the only concept I believe John Green had portrayed out of the novel. I feel It’s also a great search of why people act the way they do. Every person in this world has a motivation and their own great perhaps to pursue throughout their entire lives, wether they know it or not.

I feel that Alaska failed to see the big picture, which ultimately turned to the end of her search for death. I think she had become so intimidated by the “labyrinth of suffering” starting with the guilt of her own mothers death, that she decided to give up. Miles could only grasp this truth after her death: “that there's no point in being "terrified into paralysis" by one's