Adjectives and characteristics, which describe the characters in the novel

Protagonists (main characters) :

 1) Miles (Pudge)                                        

• shy
• manipulable
• happy
• couch-potato

2) Alaska

• moody
• mystic
• smart
• beautiful
• silly ( with Jake)
• open -hearted
• not unreliable 
• lazy
• self -confident

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Chip ( the Colonel):

• loyal
• courageous

Takumi :

• calm
• musical
• reserved

Jake:

• self -confident
• arrogant

The Eagle:

• had a look on all characters

Sara:

• nice
• undecided
• aggressive

Lara:

• open-minded
• snappy

Dr. Hyde:

• genius
• clever
• wise
• arrogant
• old
•  frail
• sicky/ill
• moves slowly
• doesn't reveat his first name to students
• wants to be called "Dr."
• proud of his good education
• condescending
• demands respect
• authority
• self-confident
• dominant
• prefers old seating arrangement in class
• giving lectures instead of discussions
• old-fashioned ->"old-school -style"
• doesn't accept other opinions 
• conservative
• strict
• unfair
• demanding
• wants stundents to learn a lot
• wants the wohle attention of the students 
• some students are afraid of him
• expects studets to abide his rules
• some stundents hate him
• isn't cooperative
• "aggressive"
• rigid
• inflexible

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Constellation (relationship) of the characters

  

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Information about the author

 John Green

John Green an American author of young adult fiction an YouTube vlogger was born on the 24th August 1977 in Indianapolis, Indiana, but he grew up in Florida. He attended Indian Springs School, a boarding school near Birmingham, Alabama,which served as a model for Culver Creek school in "Looking for Alaska". He gratuated from Kenyon College in 2000 with a double major in English and Religious Studies.
Green lived for several years in Chicago and and New York City, where he worked as a book reviewer.
~" Looking for Alaska" (2005) was Green's first novel and received many prizes. He was written a few novels since, including "An Abundance of Katherines (2006).
Now he lives in Indianapolis with his family.


 
  his personal homepage : http://johngreenbooks.com/



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Looking for Alaska

Miles Halter is tired of his boring and lonely life at home in Florida, so he decides to go to a boarding school in Alabama, hoping that a new beginning might give him a new impetus.At the boarding school he makes friends with a group of youngsters-including the beautiful and intelligent yet unhappy Alaska Young-who open a whole new world for him.

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