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A suicide because she killed herself with wanting to die in mind, but also because she was so impulsive, it was an accident.
In no part of the novel does it say that the Colonel is Black , and being Black doesn’t particularly change his character… but when the Weekday Warriors pick Chip Martin to bully out of the crowd, instead of anyone else, or when Sara’s father keeps him from joining her on stage, his race brings a lot more meaning to
Alaska’s last words to me were ‘To be continued’, and so I choose the labyrinth, even if there’s no way out, even if we’re all going, even if everything falls apart.” As one final prank, Alaska’s friends steal the bench and install it at the smoking hole, as she’d have wanted. Life goes on, as it must.
In the YA novel and show, Alaska dies in a heart-wrenching car accident the night she leaves Culver Creek in a panic. In a panic, Alaska leaves Culver Creek as Pudge and the Colonel help her by distracting the dean without much resistance.
1 most challenged book of 2015. As for why Looking for Alaska was banned , one of the main reasons is some people consider the book to be sexually explicit. More specifically, Looking for Alaska was challenged and banned because it includes a scene wherein Miles and his girlfriend-of-one-day Lara engage in oral sex.
Miles just eats pretzels with them because he’s not the hugest fan of drinking. Alaska wants to play Truth or Dare, and she dares Miles to make out with her. So they kiss , and Miles uses his newfound skills to touch her breasts, and Alaska falls asleep; as she sleeps, Miles tells her he loves her.
But I think there’s a strong case to be made from the story that Pudge and Alaska really loved each other and were in many ways suited to each other. It’s very hard to love someone well, especially when you are doing it for the first time.
Alaska had ratted because the Eagle had discovered her with alcohol. She had agreed to rat to save herself from expulsion.
The idea of the book , the deep crux of it, is the tragedy of Miles’s inability to see outside himself, the frustration that he can’t ever envision Alaska as a real, human person. It’s sad that Miles is so limited, and that’s precisely the point. It’s infuriating and wrong that Alaska can’t tell her own story.
Alaska was Marya’s roommate and therefore knew her and Paul were drunk in her room. Alaska was caught with a bottle of wine in her car while she was trying to sneak off campus to see her boyfriend Jake by The Eagle aka Mr. Marya must have done something to Alaska to make her so angry that she would rat her out.
The main idea in the novel is the search for meaning and purpose. While the characters are looking for different things, their journeys all end up revolving around identity.
‘ Famous Last Words ‘ Beethoven. Friends applaud, the comedy is over. Marie Antoinette. “Pardon me sir. James Donald French. How’s this for your headline? Salvador Allende. These are my last words , and I am certain that my sacrifice will not be in vain. Nostradamus. Humphrey Bogart. John Barrymore. Winston Churchill.
There’s the beautiful and suffering Alaska Young (Kristine Froseth) and her friends Miles “Pudge” Halter (Charlie Plummer), Chip, aka the Colonel (Denny Love), and Takumi (Jay Lee). By the seventh episode , we learn Alaska was the one who died in the accident.