I finally finished Looking For Alaska!!! John Green is such an amazing author. He does such a great job bringing me into the text and making it all seem so real. He puts so much detail and thought into his books, sometimes it is hard to comprehend! This book was his best one by far! SPOILER ALERT! So Alaska just died in a car accident. Miles and Chip just let her go. They felt horrible and wants to figure out how she died. They discover many clues (like mentioned in my last post) and the come to the conclusion that it might have been an accident, or it might have been suicide. They do not know.

In Alaska's honor, the school decides to build a playground. Chip, Miles, Takumi, and Lara all agree that this a stupid idea. Alaska would've wanted different. So, Chip brings up the idea of pulling the greatest prank in Culver's Creek in her honor. On Speaker's day, Pudge aka Miles, and all of his friends find an actor named Maxx to speak in front of the whole school. Mr. Starnes thinks that Maxx is a professor who studies adolescent sexuality. Instead, Maxx ends up stripping in front of the whole school all the way down to his boxers. Alaska would've been proud.

At the end of the semester Dr. Hyde tells his class to write a paper on Alaska's well know question, "How will you get out of this labyrinth of suffering?" In Miles paper, he wrote about how you will never get out of the labyrinth. He talks about how everyone and everything is energy so nothing can truly die or get destroyed. Miles used to believe that the afterlife was just "something we made up to ease the pain of loss" (page 220). But at the very end of his paper he writes, "Thomas Edison's last words were: 'It's very beautiful over there.' I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."

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