Looking For Alaska

Looking For Alaska is a novel by one of my favorite authors John Green. It is told in the first person point of view so one is able to feel the pain, love and lost felt by the main character. The novel is the detailed events of one semester of boarding school experienced by the main character Miles a young teen who finds excitement in remembering the last words spoken by historical figures. Miles is a socially inept teenager who resides in Florida but leaves his old life behind while he enters boarding school. While at boarding school miles meets a girl named alaska. Miles also encounter other character that help to carry the story line. Throughout the novel Miles and Alaska's relationship becomes deeper and deeper and eventually leads to a love felt by miles but unacknowledged by Alaska. In the novel miles also experience the act of fraternizing with roommates and other classmates and teen experimentation with things such as drugs and sex which prove to be a shock to the once sheltered miles. Alaska and Miles share a few romantic moments but none as romantic as the one prior to the climax of the book which i will not spoil because i believe that if one where to know what happened they might never look into actually reading this novel.

    Looking For Alaska is a wonderful novel. It slowly made its way into my best pieces of literature list. The novel is similar to that of John Green the authors life and events as he too went to boarding school and some of the characters are inspired by his friend met in high school.I highly recommend this novel if you like young adult and like to read about people coming to terms with events.  Looking For Alaska made me feel many emotions which is why i love literature because the effect it can have on a person; no matter how big or how little that effect may be any effect makes the reading experience well worth it.

The boundries of art.

what do you consider to be art? Webster's dictionary defines art as aesthetic work as painting,sculpture, or music, it does not define how art should be created.I came across a street artist from new york known only as "poster boy". Some might recognize his work. He keeps his identity a secret because his art, although innovative and original is technically illegal. "Poster boy" takes bits and pieces from poster seen in places like the subway and reworks them from the boring mass-produced posters into something unique. The only tools he uses is a razor which he uses to cut out pieces from poster and put them on other posters or object. You could say "oh he should stop because what he's doing is wrong because its defacing property" but in the end he turned that boring poster into something clever and seminal. I think that his work is humorous,enjoyable to look at and sometimes even thought provoking. His art is not just there for enjoyment its a reflection of the feelings people have toward the over exposure to advertisement. if art literally has no boundaries then should artist like "poster boy" be condemned for his work or acknowledged for it?

here is a link to his flickr account which has pictures of all his work:http://www.flickr.com/photos/26296445@N05/