Looking for Alaska John Green

Young adult novels set at boarding schools typically feature protagonists that encounter trials not necessarily representative of life outside of fiction on their journey towards adulthood. Rather, these texts amplify struggles and cause problems...

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...

“After. Nothing is ever the same” (Green 12). After the worst day of Alaska Young’s life, her whole world is turned upside down and rearranged. John Green’s novel, Looking for Alaska, demonstrates the power and importance that death, suffering,...

The Art of Taxidermy (2018), written by Sharon Kernot, and Looking for Alaska, (2005) written by John Green both delve into the themes of escapism and guilt by developing them through characterisation. The Art of Taxidermy follows Lottie as she...

Banned and challenged books and their explicit content for adolescents have always been a controversial topic of debate among education and relating communities in which certain texts may be challenged or banned due to their content being “...