Looking For Alaska

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“How do we get out of this labyrinth of suffering.” Life is an endless tale of suffering. Looking for Alaska captures what suffering feels like to the point that you’ve fallen into another’s. It is a dimension of understanding with meanings that you fall into another’s life thinking you’re living it with them. This shows how a book is more than just ink pressed against pieces of paper. It is a tale of the trials of life. Where children and adults can all relate. Everyone seeks for the “L” words; Love and loss. Two extremely important things in a humans life. I felt very closely connected to this book. I connected the most with the lovely character Alaska in more ways than one. She has a lot of dimensions to her as I do as well. This book impacted …show more content…
What it teaches you however is so much more than any subject in school can. The book addresses multiple issues that we in our society face today. For example the main character Miles Halter has a difficult time fitting into crowds at his old school. This is a social norm to have teens feel as if they don’t fit into certain groups this was shown right away when he had his going away party and only two people showed up. The similarities of our society continue in the book when Miles meets Alaska a beautiful girl whom he’d end up falling for by the end of the book. We all have our Alaska. Meaning we all have that one person who we fall for the minute we see. Who we become completely and totally submerged in love without having any say in it. Finally I think the author John Green did an amazing job of describing a girl (Alaska) who has a lot wrong with her. He uses a death to help us understand why she acts the way she does. She seems to have a bipolar disorder with extreme …show more content…
Well right from the very start I felt close to Alaska. When the Colonel shows Miles Alaska for the first time. She comes off as a confident young women who is easy to talk to. I believe I am both of these as well so right from the start I felt a connection to her. As I continued reading there came a part where she described her mother’s death. A morbid story and what followed the death was sadness such a rich deep sadness it can also be called depression. One day Alaska was happy as can be and the next she was far from okay. Her mother died but it was as if Alaska had died as well. She wasn’t truly living she was so stuck with the departed she couldn’t live her own life. This something I somewhat connect with. My mother is alive and well but my Uncle, Aunt, Grandma and Grandpa are now only here in spirit. My Grandma passing was the hardest on me it happened my 9th grade year. She had stage four cancer and the doctors told us she wouldn’t make it. She knew about the cancer while it was treatable but she has no one to live for anymore so death seemed like the best option. I was with her the day before her passing I was the one who told her she could let go. Alaska felt like the death of her mother was her fault as I too feel that the death of my grandmother was my own fault. She had no one to live for. We barely went to visit and maybe if I visited her more often she would still be with us today. I also am like Alaska because of
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