Miles Halter is tired of his boring and lonely life at home in Florida, so he decides to go a boarding school in Alabama, hoping that a new beginning might give him a new impetus. At the boarding school he makes friends with a group of youngsters - including the beautiful and intelligent yet unhappy Alaska Young - who open a whole new world for him.
Looking for Alaska is a novel about adolescents in their final years at school who are discovering friendship, love and desire, and learning how trust, responsibility, grief and loss are an integral part of human experience.

Montag, 30. Mai 2011

Pages 84-99

From Sophie:
These pages I didn't like because the story was most of the time boring an in the end confusing. Why does Alaska want to watch porn movies with Miles? Is she just bored, or what’s going on with her? Miles liked the porn movie and "took some notes" in his mind. For me, this was a little bit shocking. Somehow it is interesting to know how men or people who want to become a man are watching those movies, somehow...         Also I didn't understand, why Alaska asks Miles about the dorm rooms she broke in. The rooms might tell her many things about the persons who are living there but I don't understand why she didn't understand that the rooms aren't talking in the same way to Miles as to her. Why did she ask him what he's seeing? It was nearly clear that he didn't get the figural meaning.
I've got a problem with the end of the story. I didn't got why she was suddenly crying.
What I liked in these pages was the Thanksgiving scene. I really liked that part of the story because of the mother of the Colonel. She is really funny. What I also liked was that her dialect came out very good.
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1 Kommentar:

  1. Sophie & Alina30. Mai 2011 um 22:05

    From Alina:
    I agree with Sophie in many points, furthermore the scene where they watched porn movies together, I reacted the same way. I think this is a pretty good example to underline my first doubts that it will be difficult for a girl to read a book in the first person-narrator and this narrator is a boy. But I also don't understand Alaskas behaviour, I'm not sure if watching porn movies is the normal thing teenagers do in their vacations. Sometimes the character of Alaska is a bit strange and e. g. in this situation I don't know what to think about her. The way she reacts very often is not usual, rather a bit scary.
    In this book are so many highs and lows, very complexe characters and a fascinating story that I can't say anything bad about it. Unfortunately the story makes me think about themes I've never had before sometimes and this frightens me in a way I can't describe. But all in all I have to say that I enjoy reading this book and I like Miles commentaries because they are so sarcastic.

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