You will receive consequences! The book Looking For Alaska by John Green

 is about a boy named Miles who is pulled into the madness of Culver Creek.

 Throughout the book many social issues are seen as well as the results from them.

 Based on evidence Looking For Alaska should not be banned from schools because it

 teaches teens the consequences of peer pressure social issues.

              The book informs us how social issues can kill you. For example on page 139

 it is stated that Alaska’s time on earth is terminated when she dies from drunk

 driving, “Last night, Alaska Young was in a terrible accident, and she was killed.

 Alaska has passed away.” What happened to Alaska demonstrates what may happen

 when you drink irresponsibly. Death was a consequence of drinking and driving.

 Also there is a scene in the book where Alaska says to Miles “Y’all smoke to enjoy it, I

 smoke to die.” This suggests that some social issues can kill you, therefore  death

 being a consequence. This evidence illustrates that Looking For Alaska shows teens

 the terrible ending of social issues.

              Throughout the book it is easy to identify where something is taken too far

 and becomes a social issue. An example of this is when Miles (Pudge) almost dies

 from being “pranked”. When he is duck taped and pushed into a lake. It is written on

 page 25 “they picked me up and hurled me into the water, I twisted and turned as

 best I could so the warm night air hit my nose first, and I breathed. I wasn’t dead and

 wasn’t going to die.” This exemplifies in the book what happens when individuals

 partake in bullying, another social issue. It just so happened that in this case the

 social issue can fall under bullying which is arguably the most common social issue.

 Pranking to this extent and hazing can be considered to be bullying. Another

 example on how social issues are taken too far in this book is Alaska’s constant

 stress throughout the book. There have been multiple occasions where Alaska cries

 to Pudge due to stress on how much she has messed up in her life. There seems to

 be one thing to blame for Alaska’s continuous despair and that’s from her drinking

 and taking drugs. All this evidence reveals that this book does show the negative

 aspects of these social issues.

            It must be said that Looking for Alaska can be of some concern to parents.

 According to the article “Panel rejects parent request to ban ‘Looking for Alaska’ ” a

 parent requested to ban Looking for Alaska due to sexual contact. It would seem

 that when Alaska’s old roommate Myra got expelled from Culver Creek for having

 sex on campus this was part of this parents concern and possibly the reason for

 their request. When Myra got expelled it made it clear to the reader that you

 shouldn’t have sex in school. This book hasn’t glamorized any of the social issues it

 dealt with therefore it shouldn’t be banned. Through out this book there have been

 negative consequential outcomes.

           

Looking for Alaska must remain in schools! The book makes teens aware of

 social issues around us. By keeping this book in schools it not only benefits the

 reader but may also benefit those they share their findings with. The sad outcomes

 shown in Looking for Alaska teaches kids to not engage in social issues. In

 conclusion this book should not be banned because it deals with some real life

 teenage situations and the truth about some very unfortunate consequences.