John Green

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

"Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Reading Response 2: Looking for Alaska

I've been reading the book looking for alaska and it's about a boy who is obsessed with famous "last words" which i find very interesting. He decides to go to Culver Creek boarding school to look for a "great perhaps" because he isn't finding it at his public highschool. His father went to CC and so thinks it will be fun, his father warns him not to get into drugs and alcohol and to stay on top of things at CC. But right away he meets his roommate "the colonel" who gives the boy the nickname "pudge" because of how thin he is. Pudge then meets colonels friend Alaska and falls in love at first sight, but heres the catch; she's madly in love with her long time boyfriend. so pudge ignores his feelings, as the school year goes on he starts smoking and drinking a lot. Until the night whenever Alaska and him get drunk and she kisses him, but tells him it's to be continued.

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