Ready Reference Treatise: Looking for Alaska

By Raja Sharma

“Looking for Alaska” by John Green was first published in March 2005. It is the author’s first young adult novel. The book received Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association in the year 2006.

The novel was inspired by the authors’ own education at Indian Springs School in Alabama. The fictional Culver Creek Preparatory School is the setting for the story. It is presented as an upscale high school that lies fifteen miles south of Birmingham.

The story revolves around the central character Miles Halter who happens to be a new junior at the school.

He navigates the new adolescent world of the school. He makes friends, pranks with the wealthy day students, and finds romance. He searches for The Great Perhaps.

Ready Reference Treatise: Looking for Alaska
Copyright
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Plot Overview
Chapter Three: Characters
Chapter Four: Complete Summary
Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Jul 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310005138

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Raja Sharma

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Chapter One: Introduction

Looking for Alaska by John Green was first published in March 2005. It is the author’s first young adult novel. The book received Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association in the year 2006.

The novel was inspired by the authors’ own education at Indian Springs School in Alabama. The fictional Culver Creek Preparatory School is the setting for the story. It is presented as an upscale high school that lies fifteen miles south of Birmingham.

The story revolves around the central character Miles Halter who happens to be a new junior at the school.

He navigates the new adolescent world of the school. He makes friends, pranks with the wealthy day students, and finds romance. He searches for The Great Perhaps.

While Green was studying at Indian Springs School, a student died under circumstances similar to the character of Alaska in the novel Looking for Alaska.

The author said during an interview that he got several ideas for the book and the pranks in the book from many of his friends, particularly from a Filipino friend. There are two significant pranks in the book.

When the book was published for the first time, it was challenged for its sexually explicit situations.

The book was introduced by two teachers at Depew High School near Buffalo, New York, for eleventh grade instruction. The teachers had sent letters to the parents telling them that there was controversial content in the book.

Several people challenged the book on the grounds that it is pornographic and disgusting. One of the parents even refused to read the book himself. He said that one does not need to have cancer to diagnose cancer.

For all that, the school board decided to keep the book in the curriculum after a unanimous vote in the school board. The author wrote in his blog