Accepting The Labyrinth In 'Looking For Alaska' By John Green

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“Looking for Alaska” written by John Green is about Miles Halter, who moves to Birmingham Alabama. Miles joins a boarding school when he gets caught up in the intriguing, sexy, intelligent, and confusing world of Alaska Young. When Miles meets Alaska his whole world was turned upside down. Alaska makes him question everything, from birth, to death. The main question in Miles’ head at the end is “how will I ever escape this labyrinth?”

Labyrinth is a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way or a maze. Alaska had read Simon Bolivar’s biography and the unanswerable question had been his last words. When Alaska had introduced this question to Miles, they had wondered what Simon meant. What was the labyrinth? Was the labyrinth life? Was the labyrinth death? Alaska had asked Miles then question, and of course he had been wondering the answer to this difficult and self-discovering question, but it was not until Alaska died did he really pay
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It can be life, death, suffering, or the inevitable. To Miles and Alaska it was suffering. There was only one way out of, the inevitable, labyrinth. The one way out was also inevitable, it was death. Then the same question popped up again. How will I ever escape the labyrinth? Will I escape the labyrinth slowly, quickly, quietly, loudly? Which will it be? Alaska had decided.

Alaska had decided she would escape her labyrinth straight and fast. Alaska felt she had never done anything right. She put on a front, but deep down she was a deeply depressed girl. So, when she forgot the anniversary of her mother’s death she felt like she had messed up even worse than she did when she let her mother die. That’s when drunk and upset Alaska left Culver Creek with white daises to go visit her mother’s grave. That’s also when she escaped her labyrinth. Straight and fast, drunken Alaska charged for the police cruiser, and committed

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