Looking for Alaska: book connection to Spud

I am currently reading the book Looking For Alaska by John Green. I have just started the book this week and it’s really good it’s the first good book I have read in a while. This book seems to resemble the book Spud because of the similar boarding school experience with girls, and adventures that happen during on campus. I noticed that many similar things happen during the story it almost seems that all books about boarding schools are so cliché. It seems that once a person enters life on campus their lives all of sudden change into a rebellious life, that’s full of a lot of mischief and antics that the main character always seem to take part in with other boarding school roommates.

My first reason that supports why the book Spud is similar to this book I’m reading right now is the fact that there is always a girl that they seem to be attracted to the most. In Looking for Alaska, the main character Miles (a.k.a Pudge) is in love with this girl named Alaska which you can obviously see that because of the title of the book. Which is so similar to the book Spud, it doesn’t happen in the beginning of the book, but as the book goes forward the main character in the book who is named John Milton, falls in love with another girl who is not in the boarding school, named Amanda she seemed to be the strongest love that he had out of the one that he had before he falls in love with Debbie. In both books Amanda and Alaska both have boyfriends. Yet they always seem to end up in a romantic moment in the night.

My second reason that supports why Spud and Looking for Alaska are similar is the fact that in both books there is always pranks to be made with other roommates. In Spud they played a prank on John by snatching him in his bed and harassed him in the bathroom. Also in the other book Miles was picked up while he was sleeping on his first day. They picked him up and tied him with ropes, and sunk him in the lake on campus. It seems that pranks just seem to follow where ever there are roommates. Pranks just happen non-stop in Spud and in Looking for Alaska. So far in my current book pranks are being planned and performed to all the supporting characters in the book even Alaska, they flooded her room deeply, and damaged many valuables. To me it seems so stereotypical for the fact that it seems that kids act immature whenever parents are not there.

Boarding just seems like a place of rebellious kids and a lot of mischief. It surprises me that in both books that their lives change dramatically after just moving to boarding schools. It’s such a change from normal people, to people you wouldn’t have even thought were smart enough to attend a boarding school. It’s a little unrealistic to me, yet it’s what makes the book very interesting.