Looking For Alaska Entry Four

                From all the books on the list, I chose Looking for Alaska because John Green always has something very unexpected in his books. I also saw the movie for The Fault in Our Stars over the summer and loved it, so I figured his other books may be similar. I also liked his writing style. Instead of using chapters like every other book, he uses “one hundred days before” or “one hundred days after.” This built up suspense leading to the climax which was a total surprise. Also, it showed how all the characters acted so many days after. A connection I saw between myself and the novel after reading was questioning why Alaska’s death happened, just like Pudge and the Colonel. The boys found evidence supporting whether it was suicide or an accident. Also I wonder what would be different if the boys would have stopped her from going out so late and they feel the same way. Pudge and Alaska’s relationship could have gone further as well as building more memories with each other. The connection is nobody will ever know what happened for sure.

                I recommend this book to anybody who likes solving mysteries. If you like to pick your own ending to novels, then this book is for you! It is your decision as to why Alaska went out after several drinks and if hitting the police car on the high way was an accident or suicide. The mystery of not knowing Alaska’s death is what makes this book so unique. When leaving at the spur of the moment for something that probably could’ve waited until the next day makes me think that it was suicide by certain clues also show an accident. Looking for Alaska has several twists not only related to Alaska’s car accident and will keep you questioning what will happen next.

Looking For Alaska Entry Three

As I have began to read further into Looking for Alaska by John Green I am starting to see the action unfold. This book is much more than just a love story between two characters. The drama involved in this novel is always around Alaska, the beautiful girl who is always getting herself into trouble. One day Alaska goes out onto the highway late at night after several drinks and doesn’t return. Pudge and the Colonel were curious as to what had happened to her considering she wasn’t in class the next day. The Eagle gives the awful news to the class that Alaska was killed in a car accident that night. “For a moment, it was so quiet that you could hear the sound of not-breathing, the vacuum created by 190 students shocked out of air. I thought: It’s all my fault. I thought: I don’t feel very good. I thought: I’m going to throw up.”

This section hooked me as a reader because you can literally feel sorrow that filled the room after such horrifying news was given. Nobody knew what to say or do except question what happened and Pudge and the Colonel weren’t even certain of the situation. This made them wonder was it something they did. Or did it relate to Jake, Alaska’s boyfriend?  The boys as well as some of Alaska’s friends did all they could do investigate what could of happened. Every clue they found did not tell them whether it was suicide or just an accident. Throughout the rest of the book they have this horrible gut feeling in them as to why they didn’t stop her or why this situation could wait. Pudge admits that he was beginning to fall in love with her and everything he seems to do relate back to old memories he shared with Alaska which haunt him forever.

Tulips were found in the passenger seat of Alaska’s car. Nobody knows if the flowers were for Jake or for her mom’s grave.