The incident that Green prepares you for since the beginning would still come as a shock to you. John Green follows a trope where everything seems fine until it’s not. It has all the elements of a young adult novel, young love, and teenage friendships. This book, Looking For Alaska was John Green’s first novel and it is a great one for a debut. Green’s writing successfully creates the intrigue that makes it difficult for the reader to put down the book. The readers know from the beginning that a major incident is coming that would change the lives of all the characters, but it’s still heartbreaking when it finally happens. The book is divided into two parts- Before and After. In the novel, An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green, Alaska leads a game in which each person has to describe their best and worst days. “If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” Looking For Alaska His uneventful life is mundane and boring, therefore, when he meets the chaotic, unstable, but gorgeous Alaska, it is natural that he is drawn to her. The protagonist, Miles, is a character that the readers might find relatable, at least I did.

They are vividly described and therefore, their choices make sense. Miles is on his way to seek a ‘Great Perhaps’ as François Rabelais’ last words, and by the end of the book, the reader would want to follow in Miles’ footsteps to seek it too. With Miles’ obsession with the last words of dead famous people, John Green begins the conversation on mortality. You don’t expect young adult fiction to be philosophical but that is the unique quality of John Green’s writing.

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