Looking For Alaska Essay (HELP!!)

[Christina]

m currently in 5th year at secondary school in Scotland. For a higher english personal study I chose to write about Looking For Alaska, and I have loads of great ideas to write about. There's just one problem. I CAN'T THINK OF A TASK! (For those of you who don't know, that's basically just the idea of what you're going to write about)
It would be really great if someone could help me!

Thanks guys


DFTBA

[Caisa Doyle]

excuse you

[Daphne (Fred)]

maybe you should write about how it provides a non-glamourized view of teenage life.

[Angela]

You could pick something about getting out of the labyrinth and Alaska's entire idea that it's the labyrinth of suffering.

[McKenna]

THAT, Angie-licious, is brilliant. I second Angie's motion for this idea.

[Katherine]

Angela's idea is a great one. You could continue Pudge's musings from his essay.

[Chelsea]

ohhh. Yeah (: i like Angela's idea. I was actually about to suggest the same thing...but copying what she already said isn't cool xD

[Lynn]

I was going to say the same thing too!

But some other suggestions could be about how Miles's views on things like social acceptance, religion, friends, life, love, death, etc changed by the end of the book. Just pick one of the themes of Looking For Alaska, because there are many!

[Mys]

Just a side thought:

There is also the theme that there is more to life and people than anyone can ever know.

Pudge is always trying to understand people based on what he observes and what their last words are but, as Alaska says, "You never get me. That's the whole point." We aren't supposed to understand people or every last intricate detail of life. We are just supposed to live.

[ProudR/HrShipper]

^THIS.

It really goes along with that great pillar of Nerdfighteria, trying to imagine other people complexly. Pudge oversimplifies people by only caring about their last words, but there's a reason John purposely excluded Alaska's dying declaration. As Mys said, "We aren't supposed to understand people," but the big idea of human life is that we try.