Looking for Alaska Personal Response 1
LOOKING FOR ALASKA
The novel “looking for Alaska”, is written by a famous author John Green. It’s a story of a teenage boy named Miles Halter, and how he leaves his home in Florida to attend Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama. All the chapters leave you something to think about. This novel is very engaging and shows a lot of maturity. Not only does this novel leave you surprised with a few twists but it teaches you life lessons like love, loss, grief and forgiveness.
I was really shocked and surprised how much the girl Alaska’s emotions changed throughout the novel she will be super happy and joyful one minute and the next she will be horrible and angry. There is a part in the novel where Miles, Alaska and The Colonel are all in Alaska’s room, getting drunk and talking and just having a good old laugh with each other. Alaska is so happy nothing bringing down what she feels. But then she receives a phone call and after that she comes storming back into her room, crying and crying and extremely angry and annoyed and then abruptly left in her car without speaking a single word. “And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together was falling apart.” I find it really upsetting that people with this disorder can’t control their own emotions and what they do with them and that there moods just change in a second, kind of helpless. Alaska is most likely bipolar as her moods change faster than anything and she has extreme mood swings and constantly changes how she feels about herself and others. This kind of behaviour from her reminds me of how a lot of teenagers in society today suffer from mental illnesses like depression or bipolar disease. Bipolar disorder is a serious brain illness where people go through weird and unexpected mood changes. Sometimes they feel very happy or over the moon and are much more active than usual, and then sometimes people just go from being that happy to feeling very sad and down which is called
The novel “looking for Alaska”, is written by a famous author John Green. It’s a story of a teenage boy named Miles Halter, and how he leaves his home in Florida to attend Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama. All the chapters leave you something to think about. This novel is very engaging and shows a lot of maturity. Not only does this novel leave you surprised with a few twists but it teaches you life lessons like love, loss, grief and forgiveness.
I was really shocked and surprised how much the girl Alaska’s emotions changed throughout the novel she will be super happy and joyful one minute and the next she will be horrible and angry. There is a part in the novel where Miles, Alaska and The Colonel are all in Alaska’s room, getting drunk and talking and just having a good old laugh with each other. Alaska is so happy nothing bringing down what she feels. But then she receives a phone call and after that she comes storming back into her room, crying and crying and extremely angry and annoyed and then abruptly left in her car without speaking a single word. “And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together was falling apart.” I find it really upsetting that people with this disorder can’t control their own emotions and what they do with them and that there moods just change in a second, kind of helpless. Alaska is most likely bipolar as her moods change faster than anything and she has extreme mood swings and constantly changes how she feels about herself and others. This kind of behaviour from her reminds me of how a lot of teenagers in society today suffer from mental illnesses like depression or bipolar disease. Bipolar disorder is a serious brain illness where people go through weird and unexpected mood changes. Sometimes they feel very happy or over the moon and are much more active than usual, and then sometimes people just go from being that happy to feeling very sad and down which is called