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Comparing Looking For Alaska And Red Rising

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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end.You live several lives while reading.” ― William Styron. William styron is a famous American writer who used to win the Pulitzer Prizes. His belief that reading books would allow readers to experience different kind of lives or paths that are go through by characters deeply influenced my expectation about good books. I hope that the book I read could whether teach me a lesson about life or take me through a unique adventure.This summer, I read the books Looking for Alaska by John Green and Red Rising Pierce Brown for the school summer reading; both books took me to different places to live unusual lives and teach me something important for my future. Specifically, …show more content…

First of all, one feature of the the novel Looking for Alaska that catches my attention and expectation is its perfect combination between the theme and the structure. The novel Looking for Alaska tells the school life of sixteen years old Miles known as “Pudge” with his friend Chip Martin known as “Colonel” and Alaska Young in Culver Creek Boarding School. And the entire book is written in a original and unique structure that starts "One Hundred and Thirty-six Days Before" and ends "One Hundred and Thirty-six Days After". Such structure could not only allow the readers start at the beginning and meet Alaska and the Colonel at exactly the same time and way the protagonist, Miles “Pudge” , does, but also help readers to build a clearer feeling about the growth of Miles throughout the story, especially before and after the significant event, which is the death of Alaska. At the first part of the story, Miles turns from a person who can hardly make friends and always locks himself inside his own world to a person who have friends and can be passionate to life. According to John Green,”The only worse than having a party …show more content…

It depicts a dystopian world where is controled by the golds and have various kinds of races of human with different social status, and the protagonist Darrow who is belong to red race (a slave race) starts his way to fight for freedom after his wife Eo is killed because she sings a song that is forbidden.The book uses many brilliant word choice and attractive plots to applied several vital themes to the readers. The first theme is people should fight for what they believe, and that is the biggest reason why Darrow starts all his journey. Before Eo is caught, Eo notices that the reds are no more than slaves of those supreme races, and she tells Darrow that she hopes him could be brave and fight against the golds who control them and earns the freedom for his children. Pierce Brown insists that, “Live for more” she mouths to me. She reaches into her pocket and pulls out the haemanthus I gave her. It is smashed and flat. Then loudly she screams to all those gathered, “Break the chains!” (45). The words “Live for more” and “Break the chains” implies that the reds are fully dominated by others, and they never live for themselves. Those shout out from Eo shapes Darrow’s belief that the reds should get rid of the “chain” from the golds and live “more” for themselves, which lead him to ally with the revolutionary organization and be the part of

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