Over the summer I read the book "Looking For Alaska" by John Green. I found myself feeling that every character was a person I knew. John Green's story and character development let the book portray a lot of problems and intense feelings that teenagers go through.
The main character of the book, Miles, is very bored with his life in Florida and decides to attend Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama to "seek a Great Perhaps". I found this detail already to be so true to life as a teenager. After going through the phase when you're young and everything you see is exciting to you, you're thrown into a place where you feel like you've seen all there is to see. And suddenly, the world around you changes and everything bores you.
At Culver Creek, Miles meets the Colonel, his roomate, and Alaska, a girl he soon falls in love with. However, Miles finds many problems as well as wonders about Alaska and the way she treats people. Sometimes books make teenage girls seem perfect in the eyes of boys who fall in love with them, but Alaska is a very conflicted character, and Miles realizes this.
Lastly, although there are a lot more great story points that I'd want to go through but I wouldn't want to spoil the ending, Miles spends a great deal of time throughout the book doing homework and studying. I always read books and watch TV Shows where the characters literally never do homework. The fact that Miles was always under the pressure of schoolwork as well as dealing with his internal feelings was pretty accurate to what life is really like.
