summer reading post 2

     In the book I have chosen, 'Looking for Alaska' by John Green, the characters have inner conflicts that make it a bit harder to distinguish what they actually desire. The main character, Pudge, thinks a lot about 'the great perhaps' and doesn't go a day without thinking about it. In his mind one thing is clear to me, he wants Alaska. Alaska the girl who has so many rambling issues in her head, is perfect in Pudge's eyes. Alaska is hard to figure out. She has so many thoughts at once it's hard to follow her. Alaska wants to please everyone and to be herself without any regrets, she wants peace and chaos, she wants to explore and to stay in the same place. Alaska wants everything and nothing at all. From what I can tell the structure of the book is broken into two parts, before and after. Before is when Pudge finds friends, feels like he belongs, all of the generally nice things. After is when everything seems to fall apart. So put from the book, "After. Nothing is ever the same." That is from the back of the book where they try to simplify the entire book into a few sentences, and I think that was very well put. The theme I see starting to show is that as soon as something good happens, something bad comes after it.