Blog Post 4
         I have started reading Looking for Alaska by John Green. I started reading this book at the end of last school year and never finished it. I am about halfway through the book and I'm eager to read on. This is because John Green doesn't tell you what the main conflict is until you're quite a ways toward the end. The book starts off with a blank page except for one word. Before. This immediately makes the reader wonder what this word means. Before what? Instead of chapters, John Green divides the book up into different time periods, like 138 days before, or 126 days before.
        The book is about a plain boy named Miles meeting an extravagant, outgoing girl named Alaska. Miles hangs around Alaska, intrigued and utterly infatuated by this girl. They live in a boarding school named Culver Creek together and another boy who goes by Colonel is his roommate. They get along nicely and he just so happens to be friends with Alaska.
         They are currently all together, looking out for each other because they are currently prime targets for pranks. At Culver Creek, everyone is hiding something that is not allowed at the school, such as alcohol. Alaska once told the principal about one of her friends to protect herself and she was never trusted since. The students at Culver Creek are now wary of her entire group of friends, including Miles. They are pulling a senior prank and setting off fireworks in the woods as a form of a pre-prank, to make the administrators feel safe thinking that the worst is behind them and then they get pranked for real.
          I am excited to see what the actual prank is and what I'm reading towards with all of the labels on the amount of days before something happens.