Looking For Alaska Fan Experience
Culver Creek Survival Kit comes with:
Book of Last words
Candy Cigarettes
Frozen Bufriedos
Firecrackers
The General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Book of Last words
Candy Cigarettes
Frozen Bufriedos
Firecrackers
The General in his Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The
Product
We are offering a Culver
Creek Boarding School Survival Kit. The kit will be sold online as well as in
book stores. The kit comes with a book of famous last words, candy cigarettes,
a pack of frozen Bufriedos, a pack of firecrackers and the book The General in
his Labyrinth. This kit includes all the things you need to survive at Culver
Creek and find “The Great Perhaps.”
Where
the Product Comes From
Looking
for Alaska by John Green, takes place at Culver
Creek Boarding school. Miles “Pudge” Halter decided to go to Culver Creek in a
search for “The Great Perhaps.” At boarding school Miles meets Alaska and The
Colonel. This kit comes with all of the items that Miles and his friends found
important at Culver Creek. It will allow the consumer to interact with the plot
of the book and visualize the events taking place in the book.
Significance
of all the items
The book of last words is in the survival kit because Miles had a fascination with last words and quotes them throughout the novel. He related someone’s last words to a lot of the situations he was in. For example, Miles writes this in his final religion paper, “Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.” The last words inspired him and by giving readers their own book of last words they can be inspired the same way Miles was.
The candy cigarettes are included because in the book Miles and his friends smoked a lot. They even had a spot called the smoking hole. The smoking hole was a safe place for them to smoke but also to share things with each other. Smoking was represented Alaska in the book and her unhappiness at times. In the book she even says “Y’all smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die.”
The survival kit will also include a pack of frozen Bufriedos. In the book bufriedos were Miles and his friend’s favorite food at Culver Creek. “But nothing matched the bufriedo... deep-fried bean burrito, the bufriedo proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that frying always improves a food.” Bufriedos are just fried burritos, but Alaska started calling them bufriedos. The bufriedos represent Miles fun memories at Culver Creek but they also represent Alaska’s energy and personality when she was not depressed. The bufriedos remind Miles and Pudge of the happy Alaska after her death.
The book of last words is in the survival kit because Miles had a fascination with last words and quotes them throughout the novel. He related someone’s last words to a lot of the situations he was in. For example, Miles writes this in his final religion paper, “Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.” The last words inspired him and by giving readers their own book of last words they can be inspired the same way Miles was.
The candy cigarettes are included because in the book Miles and his friends smoked a lot. They even had a spot called the smoking hole. The smoking hole was a safe place for them to smoke but also to share things with each other. Smoking was represented Alaska in the book and her unhappiness at times. In the book she even says “Y’all smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die.”
The survival kit will also include a pack of frozen Bufriedos. In the book bufriedos were Miles and his friend’s favorite food at Culver Creek. “But nothing matched the bufriedo... deep-fried bean burrito, the bufriedo proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that frying always improves a food.” Bufriedos are just fried burritos, but Alaska started calling them bufriedos. The bufriedos represent Miles fun memories at Culver Creek but they also represent Alaska’s energy and personality when she was not depressed. The bufriedos remind Miles and Pudge of the happy Alaska after her death.
The survival kit comes with one pack of firecrackers because in the book because Alaska loved pranks. Miles, Alaska, and the Colonel pulled a prank on their school’s principle using firecrackers.
The kit also comes with the book The General and his Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This book is included in the kit because it was Alaska’s favorite book. Alaska was searching for a way to “escape the labyrinth” throughout the book. In the book the Colonel says, “After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out - but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it."
Why it will work
I think that
fans will purchase this kit because it will help them connect with the
characters in the novel. It will allow readers to emerge themselves even
further into the book and actual experience what the characters are
experiencing. By reading Alaska’s favorite book and eating bufriedos and
learning last words they will feel like the characters. I think that this kit
will be successful because fans can easily order it online or buy it at the
book store and it would not be too expensive. This product would also encourage
more people to read the book because they would be able to interact with the
novel. Overall the Culver Creek Survival Kit would be an easy, inexpensive, and
fun way for Looking for Alaska fans to expand their reading experience.
