Looking for Alaska

     Looking for Alaska, a novel by John Green, is about the life of a typical teenage boy, who goes off to a private school where his father used to attend. He meets some people there that turn into life long friends, and the situations they go through bring them even closer.
     One possible theme for this novel could be that when bad things happen, do not sit around and think about what ifs, do something to memorialize that person, do something that they would do.
      Green's writing style draws the reader in by putting the reader in the place of the main character. The reader relives the experiences in first person. You feel the same emotions as the main character, you go through all the situations as that person.
      The setting for this novel is in Alabama, at a private school. The way the author perceives the location is very southern, and very hot. The school is around a lake, that all the kids go to. They also have a smoking hole that they go to. The setting seems much like a ordinary high school but just a little bit more. The principal of the school seems to live in a big house on the outer most part of the campus. The author makes out the principal to be this awful person who doesn't let the kids get away with anything, but they really do.
       This book reminds me of the book 13 Reasons Why. This book has a girl in it that is very different, and she dies in a car accident. Her friends go to the ends of the earth to figure out what had happened, and why she had left when she did. Also in the book 13 Reasons Why there is a girl that has committed suicide and she sends tapes out to people to tell why she ended her life. The guy that recieves the tapes in the book is trying to figure out why his name are on the tapes, just like the kids in Looking for Alaska are searching for the reason why Alaska died.
       I would reccomend this book to anyone who enjoys a good read, especially teenagers. Some teens may be going through the same situations, and this book might help them. It taught me not to look at the bad in every situation, try to find the good.