looking for alaska

The book Looking for Alaska is a story told in the perspective of Pudge, who is an average high school student with very little friends.  He decides one day that he would be leaving his family to finish high school at a boarding school in Alabama in search of the "Great Perhaps". Here he becomes friends with the Colonel and Alaska who introduce him into a different lifestyle. Shortly after making some of his first close friends, a terrible accident occurs that changes Pudge and the rest of his friends life's forever.

The author, John Green, creates suspense through out the book in multiple ways. On example is the subtitles at the beginning of every chapter, for example, "one hundred thirty-six days before". This builds up suspense because the reader does not know what the author is counting down to/ what will happen. Another way is foreshadowing between characters. "My mom told me that joke when I was 6." This quote from the book eventually leads the main conflict in the book, but the reader doesn't realize it until they have finished the book.