Before: In the first part of this book, we are introduced to Florida native Miles Halter. Miles is a social outcast who loves learning peoples last words, with merely 2 friends to show up to his going away party. Miles is seeking a "Great Perhaps" of his own, and this is the explanation he gives for choosing to go to Culver Creek, a boarding school fifteen miles south of Birmingham, Alabama. When Miles arrives at Culver Creek, he is introduced to his roommate Chip "The Colonel" Martin. Chip is from a poor family, who lives in a trailer smaller than the size of their dorm. Chip nicknames Miles "Pudge" in contrast to his slender figure. Miles is then introduced to Takumi and Alaska Young, a wild, moody, beautiful, and emotionally unstable …show more content…
The friends later promise to return the favor. Miles is head over heels for Alaska, and she always fuels the fire by saying cute remarks like "You're adorable" but they are always followed by "But I love my boyfriend." Alaska introduces Miles to Romanian native Lara, and they all go on a triple first date. Miles ends up with a concussion, and throws upon Lara's lap. Miles was very embarrassed indeed, but he talks as if it meant nothing to him. I suspect it is because of is physical and emotional attraction to young …show more content…
They talk to the officer whos car Alaska hit, they steala breathalyzer and blow a .24, like Alaska had. Both even decide to speak to Alaska's ex-boyfriend Jake about the whole incident, and the phone call. They end up telling Takumi the truth about the night and he is so upset in being left out, and that this happened. While all of this is happening, Miles struggles to find out who Alaska really was and who he wanted her to be.They end up giving up on her death for a while, as they have come to dead ends. Then they remember the date January 9th, the day Alaska died, That was the day Alaska's mother too her to the zoo. The day after being when her mother died. Still, they have no real idea of whether it may have been a accucide or a suident. They leave it at
Miles Pruitt is the center of this story; he is going through life in attempt to avoid the hardships it throws at him. He has to cope with the misfortunes that come with love, and by the end of the story, Miles will finally come to realize that his decisions to go through life untouched will not pay off.
Drilling for oil in Alaska will cause the environment and animals to suffer. Oil drilling in Alaska started in 1980 when America found itself in an oil crisis. So a solution for this crisis was to start drilling for oil in other locations. The largest oil field in North America was in Prudhoe Bay on the north coast of Alaska. Prudhoe Bay would soon account for 20% of all domestic U.S. oil production. Despite the oil crisis in 1980, Congress formed a wildlife reserve just east of Prudhoe Bay. it was called The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(ANWR). Document A.
When being introduced to the characters, sometimes we learn about their appearance, personalities, profession, or history. Miles is a single man who does not have a successful love life. His first love, Carla Carpenter, was a distant girl (by choice) who ended up marrying Miles’ brother Dale. When Anna Thea Hayworth came along, Miles seems to fancy her but never did anything about it. He has nicknamed her Thanatopsis, but she married Wayne Workman, Staggerford’s principal. Miles does not get along with Wayne, probably due to his liking of Anna Thea. As for nonromantic relationships, Miles has is a friendship with the librarian Imogene Kite. Miles describes her as “too tall and bloodless to be attractive” (Hassler 29). On impulse, Miles kisses Imogene for no reason; this proves that Miles is desperate, lonely, and incapable of having clear feelings.
When Miles was a child, his mother worked in the office of C.B. Whiting. They began to see each other outside of work. Grace took Miles on a trip to Martha’s Vineyard to get away for a while, at least that is what Miles thought. Soon after arriving he met a man named Charlie Mayne (C.B. Whiting). Grace and Miles went for a ride in Charlie’s car to the beach. After Miles went to the beach for a little while he came back up and noticed, “There’d been just enough light to see his mother’s head resting on Charlie Mayne’s shoulder” (Russo 142). Miles realizes that his mom is attracted to this other man and concludes that this wasn’t just a chance meeting.
After April and Roger search desperately for Cheryl, they look for several weeks, and have no idea where she has gone. One night Cheryl’s friend Nancy calls April, and explains that she was leaving with her, but she had left suddenly and believes she is going to do something bad. April remembers that Cheryl told her how their mother committed suicide, by jumping off the Louis Bridge. When they arrive at the bridge a group of people say they saw a women jumped off and commit suicide about five minutes before they arrived.
Miles Halter is a new student at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama. Once he get’s there he makes friends with his roommate the Colonel and his group of friends Takumi, Lara, and Alaska who all end up nicknaming him “Pudge”. They also introduce him to cigarettes, alcohol, and pulling pranks on the teachers and the weekday warriors. Even though Alaska has a boyfriend Miles falls for her and her mysterious, beautiful character. One night, Alaska, Miles, and the Colonel were all drinking and Alaska starts freaking out because she forgot about the anniversary of her mother's death which she would always go and visit her grave. She didn’t explain to Miles or the Colonel about why she needed to leave, but they helped her
-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
Furthermore, Where could Miles have acquired things he said, to have him expelled from his
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.
...comes obsessed with and starts seeing his ghost. Finally, at the end of the novel she begins to look to Miles for a sense of belonging. It may even seem as if she wants to find love so badly that she smothers him to the point of death and kills him. He also may have died because she frightened him to death. In the last few scenes, the governess seems to frighten the boy so badly, they he starts sweating and breathing hard and she even starts to shake him. She longs for love so terribly that she believes Miles is Peter Quint. Finally, the governess has a "victory" at the end of the novel and she finally is able to control and manage everything she wanted to know before. The governess and her unreliable narrator poses far too many questions for answers but all the clues point to her infatuation being so strong in Bly, that she needs to have a feeling of belonging.
... through her hug, squeezing the life out of him because of her own fears of the supposed ghosts. Miles response is so ambiguous it leaves the reader with only theories with no way of knowing for a fact what really happened.
Though the stories may seem “out of place” at first transitioning to the present and past, the style shows how the narrator has learned from his experiences. When the narrator mentions the founder of his school, Mr. Norton, a wealthy and intelligent man, the author praises him as if he were a god. He explains how Mr. Norton’s opening the school affected the entire Negro race in a positive way. Giving them opportunities to better themselves and show they are just as capable as any other.
It was known as the great Alaska earthquake. On March 27, 1964, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2 struck the Prince William Sound region of Alaska. This earthquake is the second largest earthquake ever recorded in the world, the first as a magnitude 9.2 in Chile in 1960. In other words, this earthquake released 10 million times more energy than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima Japan. Equally important, this (Abby Lautt) earthquake produced landslides and caused catastrophic damage covering an area of 130,000 square kilometers, which is the entire state of Alaska, parts of Canada and Washington. The earthquake lasted approximately four minutes with eleven substantial after shock occurring over the next 24hrs causing damages in the amount of almost $400,000 and killed 131 people.
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
On the other hand, the assertion that person-centred care always appropriately identifies patient’s emotional needs must be challenged. For example the use of the ‘This is me’ Alzheimer’s Society (2016) booklet is a popular method of ‘preserving identity’ in patients with Dementia, used in both hospitals and care institutions. It is a record of the patient’s life history and preferences. However although ‘This is me’ is useful as a simplistic overview, it does not allow scope for a greater depth of understanding, for example acknowledgement of traumatic or distressing events in a patient’s history. Therefore it can be argued to be a ‘white-washing’ of a multifaceted individual rather than a preservation. For example Andre asks about his daughter