John Green has created with 'Looking for Alaska' a young adult novel, full of youthful spirit and the sprouting life. The story, action and writing style make a living unit that makes a stick on the sides and again only let go when you have reached the end. One end of which is not a true end. An end that leaves surprised and satisfied.
After all, the story told by John Green, is the are confronted with something that cuts their lives to a group of young people and friends. A clique that more grows with each side a fond that where everyone individually and in his own way is diverse, specifically. All have their rough edges, each person's own, has its quirks and seems real, almost touchable. Often one thinks, it could be your own friends and you can sit under them with alcohol and cigarettes, laughing together, crying and comforting. They exude youthful esprit, have emerging feelings, first flirtations and experiences in their lives and are just like any other young people in the world, yet a bit more, a bit special, a little bit own and a little individual like so many others in Teenanger Youth books. Funny, spontaneous, impulsive, but seriously and partly in place and emotional state. Eben not deadlocked stereotypes, but ordinary people.
Your vitality and individuality can also be found in the writing style again. The whole plot is told from Pudges (Miles) perspective and he alone will bring us closer to his new surroundings, in youth language, honest and yet very deep and philosophical life, that the novel full line is peppered which one to burn in the head. His limited field of view on things, his ignorance, makes real and living close to us the things approach things, even though we realize that we are as far away as Miles himself.
Because even if it is a young adult novel, is about a serious subject, a subject with which we all have to be done, and when reading suddenly like a stone lying on us, what is sometimes due to the construction.
One enters into a relationship with the characters, gets the first part, the 'before', a sense of the figures, is close to them and feels at some point, as if they've known forever. This binding then makes us the 'after' creating, driving us through feeling seas as the people who are stuck in this situation. Of fears, of despair, of affection, of love, of grief, of closeness ... of so much more, we make a journey through a labyrinth of life to determine that we remain in it. An output has to find out for yourself each.
And here dissolves John Green from the typical young adult novel. There are the characters, the life, the messages between the lines, the philosophy of life, the seriousness, gravity, simply the complexity of existence, which we find in the novel without us bothering and overwhelm too much. Finishing the maze of life in which we walk around looking for the great Perhaps. A sensual bath and yet a real and true piece of life without exaggeration and artificiality around a subject, when the reader is forced upon any opinion, but it can decide for themselves.
Conclusion
John Green has created with 'Looking for Alaska' a vibrant youth novel which entrains, full of humanity, and leaves room for the true and sometimes difficult life. A must-read for juvenile literature that appeals to a lot more than the youth.
