A Great Prank Leads to Crazy Things

Summary of this week´s chapters 

Me basically reading all of this chapters.

The Colonel goes back to Culver to make Alaska and Pudge spend thanksgiving with him and his mother. After spending a great thanskigiving in the Colonel´s house they go back to Culver. Alaska tells the Colonel about the snitching of Paul and Mayra and he gets very mad because he tells Alaska that he can´t trust her anymore. Everyone comes back from the christmas break to culver and Alaska tells the Colonel and Pudge to do a pank to the weekday warriors and as Alaska and the Colonel plan the prank, Pudge fells excluded. They all tell the Eagle they were away so he doesn´t suspect the prank was from them. The prank was to light up fireworks so the Eagle would go see who it was and then the Colonel would send letters to the weekday warrior´s parents saying that their childs are failing the classes. They did it successfuly. The next day they talked and drank and then they slept in a barn and Pudge shares sleeping bag with Lara and they kiss and she ends up being his girlfriend. The next day at night Alaska, Pudge and the Colonel drink to celebrate their prank and they get very drunk and Alaska ends up making out with Pudge. When Alaska is asleep, Pudge tells her that he is in love with her and then she tells the Colonel and Pudge to distract the Eagle so she can leave and they distract the Eagle and Alaska leaves drunk and crying drunk.

Important quotes

"In the dark, I could make the outline of her face and her large, round eyes blinking down at me, her eyelashes almost fluttering against my forehead" (Green 122).

I think this quote is like so romantic and beautiful. Is so nice how the author uses imagery to describe in a really nice way Lara. It shows how much Pudge loves her. The only question I have is why did Pudge did this if he was in love with Alaska?

"As she slept, I whispered ´I love you Alaska Young´" (Green 131).

Now in this quote it clearly shows that Pudge loves Alaska. I was so confused before with Lara but now I think things are clear. Although I am still confused. What is going to happen with Lara? What is going to happen with Alaska?

Final Thoughts

I am soooo shocked with everything that happened in this chapters. I feel like this is the high peek of the book. I can´t wait to continue reading the book and see what happens. I can´t believe that Pudge and Alaska maked out omg. And I also think is so dumb how Alaska just left, what is going to happen now? I predict that Alaska would come back because I think Alaska is also in love with Pudge.

this is me after reading this chapters

Pudge Clearly Loves Alaksa

Summary of this week´s chapters

How much I want Pudge and Alaska to be together

In this week, the weekday warriors try to make a truce with the Colonel and Pudge but since the colonel is very mad they declined. Later, Pudge and his friends went to smoke on their usual secret place but the Eagle (their supervisor) caught them and they go to like a jury to decide their punishment. Alaska and the Colonel take the blame so they are punished 10 hours of community service. Alaska plans a triple and a half date, Alaska and her boyfriend(Jake), Pudge and Lara (who is a russian student Alaska wants Pudge to be with), the Colonel and his girlfriend(Sara) and Takumi (one of Pudge´s friends) he goes alone. They went to see a basketball game and Pudge gets hit in the face and he gets a concussion so he goes back to his room and when he wakes up, the Colonel tells Pudge that Sara dumped him. The weekday warriors played a prank on Alaska that was flooding her room and ruining her stuff so later she and Pudge plan a payback prank. Takumi tells Pudge that the on e who ratted out Mayra and Paul was Alaska because if she didn´t she was going to get kicked out of Culver Creek. Alaska conviced Pudge to stay with her at Culver Creek on Thanksgiving vacactions and they spent a lot of time together and Pudge felt more in love with her. 

Important quotes

"I should have been nicer to her. I don´t know. It´s sad" (Green 66).

I think this quote is such a grat example of characterization. In the book you infeer a lot about the Colonels personality. Like at the begining of the book you think the Colonel is pretty much careless about almoat everything. After reading this quote you can see how the Colonel is very emotional and fragile and he does show emotions. Because Sara was someone he didn´t loved that much but still he is very sad and everything.

"How could I abandon my parents, who were nice enough to pay for my education at Culver Creek, my parents who always loved me, just because I maybe liked some girl with a boyfriend?" (Green 78).

I think this quote is so cuteee! Is so amazing how Pudge decides he loves so much Alaska that he is staying for her. Like not being with his parents and in home that he wanted just for her. I think Alaska should have appreciated this a lot because not every guy does this.

Final thoughts

This book is so relatable and I like that so much. Like I had heard a lot about Culver and I can´t belive it was also in this book. When I saw first this book I didn´t thought it was going to be so amazing. I predict and I reallyyyy want for Alaska and Pudge to be together. If that happens my only wonder is how is Alaska and Jake are going to break up. I am so excited to continue reading. 

Searching a Great Perhaps

Looking for Alaska

Summary of this week´s chapters

This is the new book I am reading and it is about this boy, Miles Halter, who goes to Culver Creek (a boarding school) to search for his great perhaps. He meets his new rommate who is Chip Martin but there they called him "The Colonel". The Colonel introduces Culver to Miles and gives him a nickname which is Pudge. The Colonel then introduces Alaska to Pudge and he sorts of fells in love with her. In Culver, they divided themselves between Weekday Warriors (the rich people) and the normal people (normal economic class). The Colonel hated the Weekday Warriors although he has a weekday warrior girlfriend.The people on Culver liked to smoke although it was not allowed and Pudge did not liked it, on of his hobbies was knowing the people last words. One day, the weekday warriors take Pudge to make a prank they do to all newcomers but they tied him up and he could have died and the reason was that he hanged out with the colonel and the colonel supposedly ratted up a weekday warrior couple that were kicked out, Paul and Mayra, but its not true so the Colonel tries to find out who was and who incriminated him.

My face figuring out Alaska´s personality.

 Important quotes 

"And his last word were´I go to seek a great perhaps. That´s why I am going" (Green 5).

I think is so increidible how Miles is so passionate to find his great perhaps. I like how the author uses indirect characterization to show how Miles is passionate and a dreamer. I wish I could be so passionate about something like Miles. I think I want to find that great perhaps but first I need to know more about what it means.

"Y´all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die" (Green 44).

I think that what Alaska said here is very deep. I think what she is trying to say is that maybe she is dying her own way by smoking. Or maybe she is trying to say that she doesn´t like to smoke and she only smokes to maybe escape from reality. I think that later when Alaska´s personality starts to reveal more this quote would be more clear.

Final thoughts

I really like this book since is like a teen book. Since is a teen book like I can relate a lot more things. I also like that the perspective from where the story is told is from Miles. By having Pudge as the narrator we can see more of his feelings and actually feel like I am part of the book and I am living the story. This is actually like one of the firsts books I can concentrate on and not think about other things.

This is me reading how cute Pudge is.

Now Everything Makes Sense

Summary of this week´s chapters

They start their trip and everything was perfect and all their schedule was on time. While they were on the road, Lacey and Radar were asleep and Q was driving and Ben was keeping him company and then they saw 2 cows and there was no way out so they thought they were going to crash and die but Ben gets control and saves everyone although Q gets a little injured. On hour 19 of their trip they arrived in NYC. Radar starts to drive really slowly, they see a barn and Q thinks that may be Algoe´s general store and Lacey sees Margo´s car. They enter to the barn and they start to search for her and Ben tells Q she is in a corner, the finally found her! She looked different and she was in a corner writting on her notebook and she did not see them but then Radar said Margo and she was very surpsised like Q. When Margo saw them she didn´t act happy or excited she just acted like nothing happen and that she didn´t care they found her.Lacey and Margo got into a fight because Margo was being mean to her so Lacey, Ben, and Radar went outside but Q stayed and talked to Margo.Margo started to act mean towards Q and again as if she didn´t care he did a lot of work and effort to find her and they got into a fight but then she was sorry she acted that way and were in a good position again. Margo tells Q that what she wrote on her notebook was a story she wrote when she was in fourth grade and admitted she liked Q. Later, Margo explained the reason why she left and all the clues and her trip and everything to Q. At the end, Q and Margo kiss and Margo aks Q to go to NYC with her but he declines, they kiss again and they decide to calñl, message, write etc., to eachother and meet again.

When I read Margo and Q went different ways I thought about this quote.

Important quotes

"We´re standing outside in the parking lot of a single-story motel when the good-byes become unavoidable".

In this part of the story I was really hooked into the book. I couldn´t believe Margo and Q were going to say goodbye. I felt like it happened to me. This also reminds me of a t.v series I watched called The Vampire Diaries. In the series, Damon and Elena have to say goodbye like Margo and Q. It is so emotional because you don´t think that was ever going to happen.

This is the scene of The Vampire Diaries I relate to with Paper Towns.

"I understand now that I can´t be her and she can´t be me".

I really liked here that John Green was very original. Like a lot of books show the couple as if they like common things, like they want what the other ones but not in this book. It is interesting to see how 2 characters that are so opposite are so great together. I really think this made the book so much better. Also, John Green describes what the characters think and want so good that you can really picture them and see them like real people.

Final thougts

I loved this book soooo much. I resally lke how John Green wrote this book it was so good that I could imagine everything being true like a movie. I recomend this book to everyone is a reat book that no one should miss it. Most of all what I really liked was the ending. I liked it so much because it is not the typical ending in which you predict what happens, it surprises you. Like I predicted they would find Marg and go back to their home and Q and Margo would be together and eeverything woulod go back to normal but it was a completely different thing and I got so surprised. Once again, I love the book!!!!

Could it Be Algoe?

Summary of this week´s chapters

Q arrived to the party but Ben was not ready to home so Q waited him. Later, it was 5 am so Q had to take Ben to his house but Ben was really drunk. The next day, Q and Radar were still searching about Margo after Q told him about the new information he discovered at the Troll Holes. The Troll Holes were in a minimall. It was finals week so after that exams day, Q, his friends and Lacey decided to go to the minimall. When they were in the minimall, they saw three people and this people were Gus (who was a segurity guy who has friends with Margo) and two of Gus´ friends. Margo used to break into the minimall before with Gus and his friends and Gus told the guys that Margo used to take pictures, sit down and analyze, write in her notebook etc., about the minimall. Another day, Q, his friends and Angela went to the minimall and they found a map with pins of possible locations that Margo left but they were not exact so finally Q analyzes the map and he gets to the conclusion she might be in NYC. Later, Q, his friends, and Lacey create a groupchat and they were investigating about places in NYC that Margo might have been in but Radar has a prediction she might be in the graduation day. On the graduation day, Q´s parents gave Q a graduation present which was a minivan of his own, he was super excited. He later searched for NYC and he found something about a paper town named Algoe which was a ficticious town with 0 population. There were comments on the page about people who have been in Algoe and Q noticed one comment that said that until June 29 the population would be 1. When Q noticed it was from Margo he was so happy because he knew she was alive and although his graduation was that day, Q went to Algoe in a 24 hour trip in a search of Margo with his friends and Lacey. The first hour they stopped at a gas station to get food and to get the calculations of how much time they had to spend at each stop and things like that for the trip.

When I saw Margo´s comment about Algoe

Important quotes

"The town was paper, but the memories were not".

I analyzed this quote but I also relate it to my life. I analyzed that its true like things can be fake but what you have lived with them are not. I relate this with my life with people. Like I have experienced having friendships with a lot of fake people but the memories, experiences and lessons I get from them actually teached me something valuable about life. And also not just a lesson but also they showed me someone I don´t want to be and like mistakes I have made. 

"This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again".

I can make a connection to something that my brother told me once. When my brother graduated from high school he was so sad. I asked him why he was so sad and he told me that it was so hard to leave something he did almost his entire life every day like to go to school and see his friends and go to class and things like that. He told me to apreciate a lot my years in school because I would later miss them. So when I read this about Q I could really understand how he really felt. 

Final thoughts

The end of this book is so near! I have enjoyed this book so much I can even say is one of my favorites. Although I am very happy because there is still one more adventure before the book ends. I predict that they will find Margo in Algoe and I hope Margo goes back to leave in Orlando. I really want to know what happens next I am so excited!

How I feel for 1 more adventure

The True Meaning of a Paper Town

Summary of this week´s chapters

Lacey (Margo´s friend who she thought was awfull) talks to Q and Ben and she ends up going to prom with Ben. Q read the poet from the book that Margo left and she left a clue on Q´s door and it had an adress from the day she left, 8328 bartlesville Avenue, the avenue was a building. It was Q´s chance to see Margo before prom and go to prom with her, that was Q´s dreams. The next day Q and his friends arrived at the adress that was a pseudovision which is a subdivision that is not finished and has been abandoned and it looked like a place to die. They went inside the building and they found a library with some holes that were called Troll Holes. In one of them they found a grafitti on the wall which Q knew it was from Margo that said "You will go to the paper towns and you will never come back." Q started to research about paper towns and he found out a paper town is a pseudivision then he started to look for a list of possible pseudivisions she might be in. Is prom day, Radar and Ben are busy because of prom but Q does not care about prom so he goes to search for Margo and he finds her nailpolish from the night she spent with Q, he also finds some eating bars and a blanket that smelled like Margo so Q was sure Margo was living there on the Troll holes and Q was going to spend the prom night there in the Troll Holes. Q went to the library that was there and found a book that Margo had already read about all the attractions around the world that a person could go to so Q thinks that maybe Margo spent a night there and then hit the road again. Ben calls Q at 3 am to ask him pick him up at a party. Q at first denied but Ben sounded so drunk that Q accepted because he also thought that if Margo was going to the Troll Hole she might have already got there but she didn´t so he went to the party to pick up Ben.

My reaction by how hard Q tries to search for Margo.

Important quotes

"In the end, the rats didn´t matter, not really, because I was in a place where Margo had been alive". 

In this quote what I noticed more was how sweet Q is. He cares so much for Margo is so sweet! Is like he only thinks about her and I think that is what the author is trying to show. The author is using indirect characterization on Q by his actions. By noticing how Q keeps Margo on his mind all day, it shows how romantic he can be.

"I needed to discover what Margo was like when she wasn´t been Margo".

I like this quote because it shows how even Q analyzes everything. He started to understand the poem like not so literal. I think the author made this because he maybe wants the reader to also analyze and not read everything so literal. To be more like Q, to learn a lesson from this book.

Final thoughts

I like so much this book! Is like every week there are new surprises and so much clues that make the book spo interesting. I think is so cool how Margo planned everythingt and every clue so good that you have to think and analyze everything so much. I predict Q will find her with the clues but I thought he was going to find her before prom. I hope this book keeps being so great as is has been so far.

How Margo makes me think about her clues. 

Where is Margo?

Summary of this week´s chapters

Margo and Q started to finish their tasks. Task #8 was leaving a dead fish on Margo´s awfull friend. Task #9 was to shave one eyebrow of Q´s enemy. Task #10 was to go to the top of a big building and see the city and Margo says Orlando is a paper town city. And the last task was to break into Sea World were they danced as Q fell more in love with Margo but as the night ended she says something about missing Q. The next few days, Margo doesn´t asist to school and Q starts to worry and wonder why she is missing. One day, Q goes to the kitchen and finds Margo´s parents and a detective. They tell Q that Margo ran off from home. Margo´s parents tell Q that when Margo ran off her home before she left little clues but they did not exactly said where she was. Another day, Q, Ben, and Radar (Q´s friends) find a poster of Woody Guthrie on Margo´s window. They think is a clue so they go to Margo´s room to keep looking for clues. They find the next clue which was an album with the song "Walt Whitman niece" which leds to the next clue which is a book written by Walt with quotes highlited. Q figures out he has to continue finding this cues to find Margo. 

This is how I feel about this few chapters....

Important quotes

"You see how fake it all is. It´s not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It´s a paper town."

I like this part because you can think deep about what Margo analyzed from the city. Also, coming from Margo you can infeer she knows and I guess she is tired of things that are like plastic, fake, like people. When I read this I felt like i did understand Margo´s fellings and thoughts. I can make I connection to me because I also see how fake nd plastic things can be and i don´t like when things are like that.

"Margo´s blue blue eyes blinked and she looked impossibly beautiful right then, her jeans wet agains her legs, her face shining in the gray light."

I really like how the author uses imagery here. When I read this part I could picture a Margo in my head and also the scene. The author describes so well that the book comes into live. I also really likje how the author makes Q say this things about Margo because you can see the very romantic part about Q and how he feels about Margo.

Final thoughts

I enjoy so much reading this book because it is full of surprises. I like the part about the clues and I am excited to know what clues Margo has left. I oredict that Q is going to find her but is going to take a lot of time to find her. I hope this book continues to be as good as it is right now. 

This is how the book has gotten me so far....