'Looking For Alaska' is a work of fiction. However, there are definite similarities between Pudge and Green — and Green is more than willing to admit them.
of a period piece. The show’s teenagers exist in the pre-smartphone age. When Miles “Pudge” Halter gets dropped off at Alabama’s Culver Creek boarding school in 2005, he’s immediately cut off from his parents and hometown in Florida. In this bubble, Miles can get up to shenanigans with Alaska , figure out how to survive the Labyrinth, and find the Great Perhaps .is vaguely autobiographical. Green modeled Culver Creek off his high school: The Indian Springs School outside of Birmingham, Alabama.
,” he said in a YouTube video. ”Maybe through fiction, I would be allowed back into the home from which time had expelled me.”, there are definite similarities between Pudge and Green — and Green is more than willing to admit them. “So, my first novel is about a guy from Florida who is obsessed with the dying words of famous people and then leaves home to go to a boarding school in Alabama. And I myself was once a guy from Florida who is obsessed with the dying words of famous people and then leaves home to go to a boarding school in Alabama,”aptly named “Looking for Alaska at My High School” on the vlogbrothers channel he runs with his brother, Hank.
Green was only 23 when he started writing the novel, and he says he saw himself in Miles, as well as the other characters. “Alaska’s self-destructiveness was mine. The Colonel’s fits of rage were mine,” Green said in aCulver Creek is based on Green’s real high school is most factual is in its setting. “Culver Creek is almost inch for inch the same place as Indian Springs in 1995,” Green said.
In a video, Green takes fans on a tour of the book’s settings. There’s a view of the field where Miles’ eyes inevitable wander during smoking class. The swan in the pond . The bridge over Bishop Creek where kids gathered to smoke. The bench where Miles and Alaska, his crush, have their first of many mystifying talks.
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