Sunday, January 12, 2014
What makes your book?
What I think makes my book is two of the main characters, Alaska and Pudge and their love story. Alaska makes the book because without her the book just wouldn't work it would be about a boy (Pudge) who sets off to Culver Creek to seek his great perhaps, hates it there because he has no friends and it's awful so he comes home. That sounds absolutely boring. Pudge and the Colonel would have never become friends if it wasn't for Alaska telling the Eagle about the two weekday warriors that broke the rules and got them expelled because if it wasn't for that Pudge would have never been taken in the night and thrown into the water by the weekday warriors, an event that really brought Pudge and the Colonel together. Pudge makes the book because although the book would be nothing without Alaska it wouldn't be anything with Pudge either because he is the main character and he didn't exist then it would be a book about the life and times of the students of Culver Creek, which would be interesting but not nearly as intriguing and interesting as it is with Pudge in it. The love story between Pudge and Alaska makes the story because without the love story the book would be very bland as it would be without either of them individually. Their love story isn't a regular love story of boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, live happily ever after, etc etc. It's differentiates from that a lot which is why I love their love so much. Pudge is so innocent and his love for Alaska mirrors that innocence, he's in love with a girl that is so very unreachable and very hard to reach on an emotional level because she's so closed off and Alaska always has this attraction towards Pudge which you definitely realize before her death has turned into love as well but I think in a different way then Pudge's love for her. -Jessica
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You're exactly right! Alaska is a very important character, but I think Pudge is too. Pudge going to Culver Creek shacked things up between his friends and the Weekday Warriors and I think that The colonel, Takumi and Alaska would agree that the year Pudge attended Culver Creek was way more exciting then the year before. At least before Alaska's death posted by - Omar
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ReplyDeletePudge and Alaska had a very interesting love story. From stealing from the Weekday Warriors and Pudge buying cigarets off of Alaska to Alaska cheating on her boyfriend with Pudge, I think they always really liked each other but had a wall that separated them from being together. That wall was Alaska's boyfriend Jake, but when Alaska went around that wall and cheated on Jake, I think she felt a whole lot of regret and was scared that she was going to lose him. That thought might have also led to the accident that ended Alaska Youngs Life.
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I do agree that Pudge and Alaska had a very interesting and compelling love story and that the book wouldn't have been as good without it. But i think Alaska was more important in this book, Alaska was such an interesting character you could have made a book about her. I think that the book totally revolved around Alaska more than the love story itself.
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