How Does John Green Use Metaphors In Looking For Alaska

Looking for Alaska” by John Green “Looking for Alaska” by John Green is about a boy named Miles who is sent to boarding school. He meets 2 very important people there, “The Colonial” and Alaska. They are all best friends and do things like pull pranks, get drunk, and smoke cigarettes. Miles falls in love with Alaska but Alaska doesn’t see him that way until the night before she died. She was upset and drunk and went for a drive. After that Miles and the colonial start to get consumed by their grief. They then try to figure out exactly how she died and pull the ultimate prank the boarding school has ever seen in honor of Alaska. John uses many figurative devices such as symbolism, allusions, imagery, metaphors, and similes to portray friendships and its growth and strength. Throughout the book miles talks about these white flowers by the creek. After Alaska’s death miles says, “Twelve oblong petals around a filled in circle against the daisy-white paint, and daises, white daises, and I could hear her saying, what do you see Pudge?” Miles, aka Pudge, is remembering when Alaska took him into everyone’s room and looked through their stuff when everyone else went home for the break and they stayed behind. He is hearing her from the grave as his grief consumes him. This is an
Miles was very well known for knowing peoples final words. John uses allusions to reveal this sort of not so secret talent Miles has. The Great Perhaps is referred to quite a few times when miles perhaps was to go to this boarding school. He didn’t really have friends back at home. So coming to this boarding school gave him a new chance at his perhaps. He made friends and lived quite a wild life full of mischief and exciting moments at this new school. As he grew in the book mentally his friends helped him and stood by