Ashraf Jabbar Dr. Rhodes ENG 099 9 May 2024 An Analysis of The Hero’s Journey in Looking for Alaska In the novel, Looking for Alaska by John Green Pudge goes through the various stages of the hero's journey when he has to reconcile the death of his partner and friend Alaska. He experiences the beginning and call to adventure; the road of trials; experiencing unconditional love; the ultimate boon; the rescue from without; and the refusal to cross threshold through trials and tribulations of the prep school and his relationship with Alaska. Pudge discovers resolve his internal and external conflicts and how he will come to terms with the death of his first love. John Green’s novel “Looking for Alaska” follows the story of Miles ‘Pudge’ Halter, …show more content…
Her intelligence, wit, and unpredictable nature draws Pudge to talk and communicate with her. Through his interactions with Alaska, Pudge is forced to confront his own insecurities and work with the complexities of human relationships. The novel’s pivotal moment occurs when Alaska unexpectedly dies, leaving Pudge and the Colonel to search and dig into the aftermath of her unexpected passing. This tragic event serves as a catalyst for Pudge’s personal transformation and character development, as he struggles to make sense of Alaska Young’s death and Pudge’s own role in the events leading up to it. The novel’s definition of grief, guilt, love, and the search for meaning in the face of tragedy is both poignant and profound. As Pudge discovers more and more about Alaska Young’s death, he is forced to confront his own mortality and the meaning of life. This realization of reality shows him to reevaluate his main priorities and opens a whole new path as he approaches his relationships and character growth. Through this journey, Pudge learns to embrace the unexpected life ahead of him and the connection he has made with the Colonel and other friends he's made along this
Task/Activity: Instead of taking a spelling test, students in both classes jumped right into PARCC preparation. Students received a packet containing a reading selection from the novel A Woman Who Went to Alaska and multiple choice questions that was included on the 2015 PARCC and released to the public. Students read the packet and answered the questions independently before the class reconvened, discussing the reading and its questions as a group. Following this activity, students worked together in pairs to write down the challenges they faced while completing the packet and identify the skills they still need in order to succeed on the PARCC exam. After this, the class received a packet titled “Ruby Bridges: Girl of Courage,” and were instructed to complete the first task, which including reading and annotating as well as completing four questions about the passage. The rest of the packet would be completed in stages during the following week.
Today I am going to be explaining how the three different point of views or P.O.V the narrators in three different stories all about unfairness to the miners during the gold rush or the late eight-teen-hundreds though. Mainly I'm going to be mentioning the character's narrators background, family, and their opinions. For opinions I'm going to be talking about if they thought the rules where to strict or just right.
It was 1927 in the small town of Eagle, Alaska, when the story of Anne Hobbs took place. Anne was a nineteen-year-old elementary teacher from Colorado and by her attendance to a lecture at her school by the territorial commissioner of education, she found that there was an open position to teach children in Chicken, Alaska. Anne was convinced that going to Alaska sounded “exciting and adventurous” so she signed up and she went off. Author, Robert Specht, and Anne herself, tell the story of Tisha, the story of Anne’s struggles and adventures in Alaska, and how she went from a cheechako to a “true-blue” Alaskan.
John Green is the author of Looking for Alaska and several other award winning books. He is the number one New York Times bestselling author and specializes in writing for young adult fiction. He wrote similar books to Looking for Alaska such as The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns. In Looking for Alaska I found that the book had a great use of foreshadowing, tone, but I didn’t really like ending of the book. Miles Halter is a new student at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama.
Imagine traveling 3,700 miles of mountains and dangerous terrain while confronting the most savage of creatures including 600 pound bears and Native Americans with spears, bows and clubs. Every night you risk almost freezing to death and starvation while having to eat candles and sometimes your own horses just to stay alive. Lewis and Clark had to do just this along with their crew. They had to use three skills to survive through all of this. They had to show courage, commitment and most importantly resourcefulness. Lewis and Clark are some of the Bravest people that ever lived.
-In hard times, friends will always be there. Friendship is the most important thing in life. Without it, you are lonely and have no one to vent to. In her rough moments, Alaska exposes the real her to Miles and speaks her feelings. She puts his trust into him because she sees something kind in him. When Miles begins to date a girl, he goes to Alaska to give him dating advice. And finally, after Alaska’s passing, Miles and his friend Chip Martin must rely on each other for support. They cope and console with one
...ain is to cheat with an officer who is supposed to help with Susie’s case. The professional relationship between officer and citizen changes into a toxic relationship based on lust and foolishness, as Abigail relies on an unknown man to release her emotions that either she could not control on her own or trust with her husband. To conclude, the despair felt from all characters in the novel have a significant role in ruining relationships.
The Iditarod is a thousand mile dog sled race across Alaska from Anchorage to Nome. It has been coined “The Last Great Race”, and it is known for its adversity. It began in 1973 in an effort to preserve the historic significance of the Iditarod trail. The dogs in the Iditarod are loved and celebrated. However, sled dogs are not only used for racing. Sled dogs played an important role in Alaskan settlement and Alaskan culture. However, the demand and necessity for sled dogs declined after the creation of the snow mobile. Joe Redington helped to revitalize the Alaskan, and therefore American, tradition of dog sledding through his role in the creation of the Iditarod.
The gold rush era in the United States began in California in 1848 and ended around the year 1900. (Yukon) Although miners searched for the valuable metal into the twentieth century, the Klondike gold rush, which was around 1897 till 1900, was the last of some of the major rushes to occur. People had flocked to the upper part of the Yukon River in hopes of striking it rich. Many people had traveled from the Canadian and American regions to the center of the Klondike gold rush to fulfill their dreams of one day being rich with gold. (Place 48) The Yukon River Valley of Canada and Alaska was once peaceful and isolated, wild animals and a few white trappers and people. The miners had wandered north after the California fields gave out and fulfilled their dreams on a few dollars in gold they managed to eke out of their mines. This loss of gold in California had made the peaceful Alaska into a rampage of greed and envy that would never make Alaska the same.
... is reminiscing about the fact that she messed up and it cost the boy’s life. The overall tone in the end of the novel is depressing as the governess’s actions and attitudes about current events tend to reflect the tone of the situation.
The Hero’s Journey is a pattern of narrative that appears in novels, storytelling, myth, and religious ritual. It was first identified by the American scholar Joseph Campbell in his book A Hero with Thousand Faces. Campbell also discussed this pattern in his interview to Bill Moyers which was later published as a book The Power of Myths. This pattern describes the typical adventure of the archetype known as The Hero, the person who goes out and achieves great deeds. Campbell detailed many stages in the Hero’s Journey, but he also summarized the pattern in three fundamental phases: Separation, Ordeal, and Return that all heroes, in spite of their sex, age, culture, or religion, have to overcome in order to reach the goal. Alice in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll, provides a good example of the Hero's Journey. This story describes the adventures of Alice, a young English girl, in Wonderland. Although she lacks some of the stages identified by Campbell, she still possesses many of them that are necessary for a Hero to be considered a Hero.
Looking For Alaska is a new, popular book that has been read and debated by many. Throughout the country, the novel has been put on many banned book lists. The book contains rebellion, drugs, tobacco, and sex, all of which are reasons why the book is banned. Looking For Alaska provides more to young readers than an idea of rebellion. In a world religions class, the main characters, Pudge and Alaska, are given a debatable essay question. They are asked “What is the meaning of life?” The heavy question affects the characters and their mindset throughout the book. Alaska answers the question by saying that “life is a labyrinth of suffering”; her mindset ends up coinciding with sudden death. Pudge uses the essay question to comfort himself through
Mallard’s emotions over the presumed death of her husband. The author used both dramatic and situational irony to mislead the reader and surprise them with a plot twist ending. By utilizing both external and internal conflict the author expresses the internal debate of Mrs. Mallard’s true feelings and those of the people around her. The author used symbolism to display Mrs. Mallard’s desire for freedom from her marriage. In the end it was not joy that killed Mrs. Mallard but the realization that she lost her
Looking for Alaska is a book ,written by John Green. The main theme of the book is “Looking for the Great Perhaps.” In the first three chapters of the book, the main characters, Miles “Pudge” Halter, Chip “Colonel” Martin, and Alaska Young are introduced. Looking for Alaska is a story about a guy named Miles Halter who recently switched to a boarding in school in Alabama in order to find out who he really is as a person. At the boarding school, Miles becomes very close friends with his roommate, The Colonel, and a girl named Alaska Young. The Colonel is a very confident guy who’s pretty poor in money, but he’s rich in love and appreciation for people. Alaska is a very beautiful, yet strange girl who is fascinated with death and isn't afraid
The themes that are picked out in the novel are: Trust, Romance, Friendships and Death.