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.
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