lit analysis #i forgot because we do so many

Looking For Alaska AKA THE BEST BOOK IVE EVER READ
1. A not too social boy living in a not too exciting town moves to a boarding school that his father attended as a high schooler as well. Thinking it would be an amazing place with beautiful scenery and exciting people, you could imagine the disappointment when it ends up being a bone dry wasteland of cliques and classes. But he judged too quickly. Culver Creek Boarding School was most likely the best thing that had ever happened to Miles. He met the best people he would ever meet, one of them being Alaska, a witty girl who never seemed to lack an answer. As the days go on, he slowly falls in love with his best friend, and then, it all suddenly changes. Alaska dies, no one knows by suicide or not, or why she did what she did previous to the destructive car accident. But Miles won't stop until he figures out the mystery behind her death. The author pulls you in with every incident and every word written. Each problem in the novel has a distinct purpose to make you feel certain overpowering emotions. 
2. There are so many themes encumbered in this book but I'm going to choose the struggle with finding individuality. Miles comes from a town where he has no friends, just his mom and dad. The people he meets influences everything he does, even though they are fighting to find themselves too. Especially Alaska. He needed to find his great perhaps, as he put it.
3. The author's tone is very witty, humorous, and deep all at once. 
"He's just happy most everyone's gone. He's probably masturbating for the first time in months."
"'Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. 
She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.'" 
"You all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die."
4. Parallel structure: "I hated discussion classes. I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way..." pg. 32
Metaphor: "So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane." pg. 88
Lyric: "Night falls fast. Today is in the past." pg. 89
Allusion: "Night falls fast. Today is in the past." (also an allusion of a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay) pg. 89
Irony: "COFFEE TABLE", the coffee table that is not a coffee table is labeled coffee table.
Narrator: the narrator is Miles, aka Pudge. "After five minutes, we split up to go to our destinations. I stuck with Takumi. We were the distraction." pg. 103
Onomatopoeia: "bangbangbanged" pg. 105
Alliteration: "drinking and joking" -it sounds like alliteration anyways, the way you say it. pg.121
Simile: "Like an alcoholic preacher on a Sunday morning." pg. 124
Personification: "...her volcanic candle just peeking out from beneath the bed." pg. 154
 


CHARACTERIZATION 
1. Direct: "...the not-yet-setting sun shone against her lazy dark curls..."-"I saw a short, muscular guy with a shock of brown hair."
Indirect: "My thin arms didn't seem to get much bigger..."-"
The author uses both approaches in order to put the reader into the story with the direct characterization, because different characters needed different appearances to go with different personalities. He left some parts of the characters up the reader's imagination though, which is why he used indirect characterization too.
2. The author's diction and syntax rarely changes through the novel. If the diction ever changes, it's when one of the characters is talking. They are high schoolers, so they don't have as elevated a vocabulary as the author.
3. The protagonist is extremely round, and is dynamic. He changes so much throughout the book, being a boring, friendless teenager to a slightly more grown boy dealing with the death of his best friend and a girl he believed changed his entire life.
4. After reading this book, I was an emotional wreck. I didn't understand how the author could just kill off such an important character. But then I realized, his whole reasoning for killing off such an important character was exactly to make me feel like the emotional wreck that I was. 
"He was screaming, 'I'm so sorry.'" This one sentence was stated after the death of Alaska. And it is so simple, that it made me understand the exact emotion that I've gone through, and describes the intensity I was feeling.