Essay On Looking For Alaska

“So I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends, and a minor life.” Looking for Alaska was written with a setting that teenagers like us can connect to and relate to on a daily basis, because we go to school and know what it’s like, from trying to fit into the social norm or deceiving teachers into thinking that everything is just fine and we are all stress free. As a student myself, I’m searching for a Great Perhaps because I go to school everyday to be a successful and powerful woman in college and in years yet to come. After completing, Looking For Alaska it is evident that Pudge the protagonist, was looking for A Great Perhaps, he even mentioned it himself. “I was after a Great Perhaps, and they knew as well as I did that I wasn't going to find it with the likes of Will and Marie.”(Green 5) In the beginning of the book he was the kind of teenage boy who kept to himself, stayed at home with his parents and had little to no friends. For example, Pudge threw a ‘going away party’ and only one “friend” showed up with her boyfriend (which wasn’t even one of his friends), but they didn't end up staying for awhile. “Consisted of exactly …show more content…
In his final Religion essay he explained Alaska as the Great Perhaps and how Him, the Colonel and Takumi messed up and let her slip through their fingers, not stopping her at her culmination knowing that she was up to no good. “Then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers. And there’s no sugar coating it: She deserved better friends” (Green 218) They all knew she was drunk to the point where she could think straight, but even to drive a car where she has the potential to get hurt. Nobody stopped her. They knew that if they were to stop her she would get angry and hold a grudge towards