Looking for Alaska
“You can love someone so much… but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” This heart-wrenching quote by John Green from An Abundance of Katherines relates to another of his heart breaking novels, Looking for Alaska. The bildungsroman novel, tells the story of Miles Halter (Pudge) a socially awkward teen out to seek his great perhaps. Along the way he meets Alaska Young, who he ends up falling in love with, but he can never have her. The unexpected loss of Alaska Young, affects the relationships of Miles and Takumi and Miles and Lara as their relationship is put to the test. Where as Miles and the Colonel’s friendship grows stronger as they soldier through the grief.
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The Colonel and Miles always had a strong friendship before Alaska’s death as they were roommates and the Colonel was Miles’s first friend at Culver Creek, but after Alaska’s death their friendship was tested, ““you don’t even care about her!” he shouted”. They argued as to whether Miles’ idea of Alaska was just a fantasy and that he never truly loved the person she really was, “all that matters is you and your precious fantasy that you and Alaska had this goddamned secret love affair”. Miles and the Colonel also argued as to why neither of them had stopped her that night, “and if you loved her so much, why’d you help her go? I was drunk. What was your excuse?” However, they pull through their arguments as they investigate the reason in to why Alaska left that night and what possibly caused her death. While they were cleaning out Alaska’s room, Miles finds her novel, ‘The General in his Labyrinth’ with the quote, “how will I ever get out of the labyrinth?” In response to the question Alaska had written in the back of the book ”straight and fast”. This leads to Miles and the Colonel to believe that Alaska’s death may have been suicidal. Their friendship grows stronger as they look closer into Alaska’s death. They also form a strong bond as they keep their investigation of Alaska’s death between themselves. This shows us how the grief from the loss of Alaska brings a friendship closer. This relates to the film We Bought a Zoo and how their family is brought closer due to the loss of their mother, they go through hard times where they feel their family may just fall apart but in the end the grief has always made them
“You can love someone so much… but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” This heart-wrenching quote by John Green from An Abundance of Katherines relates to another of his heart breaking novels, Looking for Alaska. The bildungsroman novel, tells the story of Miles Halter (Pudge) a socially awkward teen out to seek his great perhaps. Along the way he meets Alaska Young, who he ends up falling in love with, but he can never have her. The unexpected loss of Alaska Young, affects the relationships of Miles and Takumi and Miles and Lara as their relationship is put to the test. Where as Miles and the Colonel’s friendship grows stronger as they soldier through the grief.
“With a secret like that, at some …show more content…
The Colonel and Miles always had a strong friendship before Alaska’s death as they were roommates and the Colonel was Miles’s first friend at Culver Creek, but after Alaska’s death their friendship was tested, ““you don’t even care about her!” he shouted”. They argued as to whether Miles’ idea of Alaska was just a fantasy and that he never truly loved the person she really was, “all that matters is you and your precious fantasy that you and Alaska had this goddamned secret love affair”. Miles and the Colonel also argued as to why neither of them had stopped her that night, “and if you loved her so much, why’d you help her go? I was drunk. What was your excuse?” However, they pull through their arguments as they investigate the reason in to why Alaska left that night and what possibly caused her death. While they were cleaning out Alaska’s room, Miles finds her novel, ‘The General in his Labyrinth’ with the quote, “how will I ever get out of the labyrinth?” In response to the question Alaska had written in the back of the book ”straight and fast”. This leads to Miles and the Colonel to believe that Alaska’s death may have been suicidal. Their friendship grows stronger as they look closer into Alaska’s death. They also form a strong bond as they keep their investigation of Alaska’s death between themselves. This shows us how the grief from the loss of Alaska brings a friendship closer. This relates to the film We Bought a Zoo and how their family is brought closer due to the loss of their mother, they go through hard times where they feel their family may just fall apart but in the end the grief has always made them