Looking for Alaska is a book about a personnamed Miles who goes off to boarding school and encounters new things that he has never seen before in his life, such as smoking, sex and basically he starts to go towards his rebellious side. I've noticed many archtypes in the story because of the new environment he's put in.

The obvious hero in the story is Alaska she is also a mentor because of the fact that she does teach and guide him through boarding school life, but she deserves the spot as a hero because she does have many flaws in her life, but it is very courageous. Alaska has many flaws in her life. She's not veryloyal because of the fact that she cheated on her boyfriend, and made out with Miles. She is also not very content with herself she is always finds herself to be unhappy, "I am an unhappy girl."She is so unpleased with her life,which considers her to be unperfect. She is very courageous, afer hearing that she is an unhappy person this is surprising. She's not afraid of getting in trouble, it'probably the fact that she doesn't care about her life.

The mentor in the story would have to be "colonel", he is the the mentor of Miles because he is very influential on Miles in a positive way. Colonel is never the one to go over the top  with anything, so he's always he suttle one.This is why he's able to restrain Miles fom going overboard with Alaska's courageous ways. He also symbolizes experience because he teaches Miles from past experiences ways that he can get caught smoking (they smoke a lot) and who are people that you should not trust in the boarding school.He was also the first person to take Miles under his arm the moment Miles went to te boarding school. He's really been thefirst real friend Miles had ever.

The shadow would haveto be the "weekday warriors" or the rich white people in the school. The first timeMiles arrived in school he was harrassed by dumping him in the lake and making him nearly drown. They're like the bullies of the school. This is the shadow or the darker side because they're the ones that basically started the whole problem in the school with Miles in the first place. After they did this to Miles, colonel got angry and started to play pranks on them. It started to become a prank war, and their dislike for each other increased a lot. Their snottyness makes them seem as bullies of the school,and they are basiclly trouble makers.

The shapeshifter of the story would have to be the eagle, he is basically the dean of the school. He's a shapeshifter because he doesn'treally take authority's side like he's supposed to. He pretty much supports Miles' side and other kids because he's not very strict into expelling people unless neccessary. He really justt focuses on the school reputation more than the law if it's right or not. He sometimes takes the laws side like when he expelled two kids for alcohol ingestion,, it was onl once though so not really. That's how Alaska and Miles do bad things without getting caught.