John Green has stated repeatedly that he believes people underestimate the intelligence and emotional capacity of teenagers. In Looking for Alaska, all of the characters are dealing with their own personal struggles and issues with authority. John Green shows the struggle of being a teenager in a world where everything feels big and real, but adults have a tendency to brush off the hugeness of the problems. Youth is a time for experimentation—but that experimentation goes wrong when teenagers are trying to figure out the world all on their own. Young people are both smarter than they're given credit for and more impulsive than is wise.
Looking for Alaska is meant to reflect the teenage experience of those teenagers whose problems seem insurmountable, and ultimately to give real teenagers in similar situations hope. John Green drew on his own teenage experiences for the realism of the novel, and he believes that teenagers are functional human beings with their own lives and intelligence and autonomy.
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