The reason I chose Looking for Alaska to read as my summer reading book is because my friends and older siblings recommended this book and they said it is a really good read and it is what they read when they were in high school. I did not really look at the list for books you could read, I just went with my friends and siblings opinions of how they liked the book and what they thought about it. When I read the summary of what the book was going to be about, Alaska really drew my attention. Alaska is a really awesome character that is very interesting to me and I wanted to read more about her.
I couldn't really connect to the fact that this book to place at a college because i'm only 15 but, I could connect with how close Pudge, Chip, and Alaska were. I have some pretty close friends just like that. If I were to say the closest character that I thought resembled me, I would have to say Pudge. I would recommended this book to anyone that likes reading curious books but fun books at the same time. Anyone that also likes to have that one main character that is always exciting to read about, I would recommend Looking for Alaska.
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Looking for Alaska Entry 3
One section of Looking for Alaska that has the intent of hooking a reader is, "Two minutes later we were crouched behind the trees fifty feet from the Eagle's back door. My heart thumped like a techno drumbeat. 'Thirty seconds,' Takumi whispered, and I felt the same spooked nervousness that I had felt that first night with Alaska when she grabbed my hand and whispered run run run run run. But I stayed put.
I thought: We are not close enough.
I thought: He will not hear it.
I thought: He will hear it and be out so fast that we will have no chance.
I thought: Twenty seconds. I was breathing hard and fast.
'Hey, Pudge,' Takumi whispered, 'you can do this, dude. It's just running.'
'Right.' Just running. My knees are good. My lungs are fair. It's just running.
'Five,' he said. 'Four. Three. Two. One. Light it. Light it. Light it.'
It lit with a sizzle that reminded me of every July Fourth with my family. We stood still for a nanosecond, staring at the fuse, making sure it was lit. And now, I thought. Run run run run run." (pg. 104)
The section i thought really hooked in a potential reader was in the before section, and the part where i took this very long quote from was when Alaska and her group of friends were about to pull the barn prank. The reason they were pulling this prank or you could say "pre-prank" was to lull the administration into a false sense of security. The juniors and seniors pull of a prank sometime in the year and with the prank Alaska is doing, they will think the juniors and seniors have already done their prank for the year.
One reason I think that this section of the book can really hook a reader is because it is suspenseful and it also really describes what the characters are thinking when pulling this prank.
I thought: We are not close enough.
I thought: He will not hear it.
I thought: He will hear it and be out so fast that we will have no chance.
I thought: Twenty seconds. I was breathing hard and fast.
'Hey, Pudge,' Takumi whispered, 'you can do this, dude. It's just running.'
'Right.' Just running. My knees are good. My lungs are fair. It's just running.
'Five,' he said. 'Four. Three. Two. One. Light it. Light it. Light it.'
It lit with a sizzle that reminded me of every July Fourth with my family. We stood still for a nanosecond, staring at the fuse, making sure it was lit. And now, I thought. Run run run run run." (pg. 104)
The section i thought really hooked in a potential reader was in the before section, and the part where i took this very long quote from was when Alaska and her group of friends were about to pull the barn prank. The reason they were pulling this prank or you could say "pre-prank" was to lull the administration into a false sense of security. The juniors and seniors pull of a prank sometime in the year and with the prank Alaska is doing, they will think the juniors and seniors have already done their prank for the year.
One reason I think that this section of the book can really hook a reader is because it is suspenseful and it also really describes what the characters are thinking when pulling this prank.
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