The characters in Looking For Alaska deffinently seem beliveable. The story takes place in a high school boarding school and most of the characters are teenagers. The way that the characters talk and act is alot like how really life teenagers act.
Alot of people would disagree with the book and think that it should not be read in schools because it will encourage teens to do some of the things that are mentioned in the book. I think that the characters in the book act like alot like how teens today act. So by reading this book its not going to change the way teens act or what they do because for some people its pretty the way they act anyways
Do you think that reading this book will change the way that teens act?
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No, I do not think reading Looking for Alaska will change the way teens act. Teenagers now a days just don't pick a book, read it, and do what they do in the book. Thats just like saying im gonna watch the movie jackbutt and do the stunts they do because all mid-aged people do that.
Yes, they may appreciate each other more, among other positive changes.
Jillian...it's an interesting question.
I don't think that Alaska will cause teens to go out and party, or think partying is cool, or to make decisions based on the book.
While reading Alaska I was struck by how Green captured the self-destructive nature of adolescence. The scenes depicting drug and alcohol use and the intimate encounters seemed empty. It's not like Green was glorifying smoking in the bathroom or drinking. It's not a Hemingway novel where such activities seem to inspire a heightened state of consciousness/awareness. Everything seemed so meaningless, empty, and in some way hopeless. It's not like these behaviors were depicted like they are in movies or music scenes. Alaska had no McLovin, nor did it have a glorified party like in Can't Hardly Wait or a drug use scene like in The Breakfast Club. There was no glorification. Just a kind of fumbling what is it good for kind of feeling.
I think that if a reader reads this type of material and truly reflects on the text (types of behavior which I think responses and conversations cause), I think that these understandings about life start to slowly mold and take shape.
Anyway, just my two cents.
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