Essays on Looking for Alaska

Self-destructive behavior runs rampant in this book written by John Green. According to psychologists, self-destructive behavior is used as a coping mechanism when one is overwhelmed. In this novel, this type of response is seen mostly in Miles and Alaska. They both have different reasons...

Credibility & Ethos Appeals As aforementioned, On the Banning is split into two sections with respect to tone and method of addressing audience. In the first twenty seconds of his vlog, Green establishes his credibility in a humorous way: “it turns out the most challenged...

Comparing A Separate Peace and Looking for Alaska A Separate Peace is set in a Vermont boarding school during the 1940s, and Looking for Alaska is set in an Alabama boarding school during the early twenty-first century, but despite the differences in setting these books...

First drink, first prank, first friend, first girl, last words! A poignant and moving crossover novel about making friends and growing up from American author, John Green. The novel Looking for Alaska follows a young boy Miles (pudge) and his journey throughout boarding school at...

The Rhetorical Effectiveness of a YouTube Video On April 12th, 2016, young adult novelist John Green uploaded a YouTube video titled On the Banning of Looking for Alaska, in which he discussed the circumstances surrounding his first novel being named the number-one most challenged book...