Looking for Alaska

  • Rising Action 3

    Rising Action 3
    Alaska and the whole gang pull pranks on the weekday warriors and stay the night at the barn.
  • Intro to Characters

    Intro to Characters
    Setting: Culver Creek Boarding School Situation/Climate: Culver Creek, Alabama Characters: Miles Halter (Pudge), Chip Martin (Colonel), Alaska, Takumi, Lara, Mr.Starns (Eagle), Mr. & Mrs. Halter (Pudges Parents).
  • Conflict

    Conflict
    Protagonist vs. Antagonist:
    Alaska vs. Feelings Conflict:
    Alaska trying to figure out who she truly is in life.
  • Rising Action

    Rising Action
    Alaska and the whole gang have a heart to heart conversation while drinking. It's called "Best Day, Worst day". Alaska shares that her mom died when she was eight in front of her and her dad blames her for her mothers death.
  • Rising Action 2

    Rising Action 2
    Alaska teaches Pudge and Colonel precalculas and tells everybody she smokes "to die but she will die smart".
  • Rising Action 5

    Rising Action 5
    Alaska gets a phone call from from jake and starts crying and yelling because she forgot about her mothers death anniversary.
  • Rising Action 6

    Rising Action 6
    Alaska leaves drunk in her car but before she leaves she asks Pudge and Colonel to get the Eagle out of her way. Pudge and Colonel try to stop her but couldn't, they had no idea what was going on.
  • Climax

    Climax
    Alaska dies in a car accident. Alaska had white tuliups in the back of her car. Nobody knew if it was a sucide or if she got hit. The cop said he smelled alcohol everywhere.
  • Falling Action

    Falling Action
    Pudge and Colonel go through Alaska being gone and dont know if she killed her self or why she left. Pudge wants to know why now.
  • Resolution

    Resolution
    Alaska dies and it sinks in to everyone. Pudge and Colonel decide for there last prank is to have a male stripper come in and they say out loud on the microphone "This one is for you Alaska".
  • Rising Action 4

    Rising Action 4
    Pudge and Alaska start drinking and after the pranks and start making out with each other.
  • Theme

    Theme
    The themes for this book are Good choice and bad choices. Also Grief. One example for a good choice out of the book is "No drugs, no drinking, no ciggeretts". p.7
    For a grief example it would be "Dont die Alaska dont die". p.151 This shows the themes I choosed out of the book.