I Finished Looking for Alaska by John Green, and it turned out to be one of the best books i have ever read. It is about a young boy named Miles Halter or pudge as his friends call him who goes to boarding school in Alabama looking to experience the Great perhaps, which is in other words means the great unknown, The great thing that could happen. Miles is sure that experiencing this unknown excitement would change his life and the way he sees it. While in camp he meets the out of control, funny, clever Alaska young. She takes his heart and the rest of him on a out of the ordinary ride of his life. From then on he professes his love to the unattainable Alaska. Until the day that everything changed.
When reading this book you will read two quotes that set the story up in a very philosophical way. The first quote was " I go seek a Great Perhapes" by Francois Rabelas. As said in the first paragraph the great perhapes is that exciteing, fufilling thing that is out their somewhere. But the thing is, what if there is no Great perhapes to forth searching for, it says that it is unknown, that we must go looking for it in order it experience it. What happens when we look for the freedom to experience it and come up to a dead end, a stand still. I feel that it is not worth looking for the influence of others to begin your Great perhapes, it might be better to create it on your own, choose your destiny and create your own paths. In the book Miles keeps on saying that the people around him ( hometown florida) were not helping with his experiences for his great perhapes. but, i think that Miiles could have started it himself, that it was him who did not make those heartpounding , blood pulseing decisions that would ultimately ( if there is one) get him to that Great Perhapes.
The second quote was by Simone Bolivar he said "How will I ever get out of this libyrinth". To me this qout represents how humans will get away from their suffering or pain. In the book Alsaka is haunted by the death of her mother when she was young, she lives, thinking each day that she is to blame for her mothers unexpected death. This puts her in her own surrounding Libyrinth. She whats for something she free her from it but never succeeds but in the end, her death was the answer she was ultimatly looking for.
Once in boarding school, Miles's relationship with Alsaka has resson, she is what he wants to be his Great Perhapes that one thing that would fulfill his dreams. But Alaska gives him something even larger than that which was friendship. Someone to share their deepest darkest secretes to, and they shared them all. Miles started to feel that he belonged somewhere, that he was excepted somewhere. It was to good to be true, and unfortunatly for miles it ended to quickly. Alsaka at the young age of 17( I think) died in car crash. For a long time Miles believed it wasn't true, he was to shocked that his Great Perhapes and his friend was gone in a flash.
When loved ones die you try to hope that it was fast and painless, to ensure they went out peacefully. Miles wished for this and more, he desperatly wanted to know why she was out why she was driving drunk on a school day. All of these questions swam in his head for weeks without answers that nearly drove him insane. It took him a while to realize that Alaska wasn't who she was just becasue, the experiences of her childhood lead her to who she was today. That the actions she made, made her want to get out of her pain and suffering, to finally get or of this Labyrinth that she called her life.
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