Summer Assignment Entry Three: Looking For Alaska By John Green

I have to say Looking for Alaska, by John Green has had so many hooks. It is such a great book. It always makes you want to read more. The hook below is from the beginning of the book and it is when the Weekday Warriors start to make the pranks very serious. Usually, they take the new kids and throw them in the lake and make them swim back, but Pudge was a different story. On page 25, it states,"When we reached the beach, they told me to put my arms at my sides, and the beefiest guy grabbed two rolls of duct tape from the sand. With my arms flat against my sides like a soldier at attention, they mummified me from my shoulder to my wrists. Then they threw me down on the ground; the sand from the fake beach cushioned the landing, but I still hit my head. Two of them pulled my legs together while the other one—Kevin, I'd figured out—put his angular, strong-jawed face up so close to mine that the gel-soaked spikes of hair pointing out from his forehead poked at my face, and told me, "This is for the Colonel. You shouldn't hang out with that asshole." They taped my legs together, from ankles to thighs. I looked like a silver mummy. I said, "Please guys, don't," just before they taped my mouth shut. Then they picked me up and hurled me into the water." As you can tell the boys took it way too far! They almost killed Pudge! He barely managed to make it to the shore. He made himself float and then used the mermaid style of swimming to get himself safely back to shore. Once he got back to the school, he immediately went to Alaska's room. She wasn't very helpful. She made jokes and wasn't there to comfort him but she didn't know how far the Weekday Warriors had taken it either. Next, Pudge went back to his room and told Colonel everything and of course that made him very angry. Colonel immediately started thinking of ways to get them back. Colonel had declared war on the Weekday Warriors.