Dialectical Journal For Alaska

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Context: when alaska says this, she is referring to the fact that she doesn't want to be someone that wastes her time on what could happen but rather on what she can do in the moment, she wants to spend her time getting out of the maze not thinking up ways to get out and what it would be like so she can enjoy the future, not enjoy the thought of it. (P) i think that after this pudge will start to see life the way alaska does. Pudge looks up to Alaska in a way, he asks himself “what would alaska do” because he likes her perspective on the world and how things are meant to be even though it's not his own, he hopes for it to be sooner or later. If pudge starts to look at the world the way Alaska does it should help him later on in the okk, with …show more content…

This quote is showing pudge's reconnections with the present. He is now willingly able to enjoy it and knows that his future holds good things regardless of the fact that he won't be with Alaska. (Q) even though pudge is able to reconnect with the present, at the end of the quote he says “and i hope it's beautiful” does this mean he is planning on finding his “somewhere”? Or, is he now unable to go to his “somewhere” because that was alaska to him? Now that she is gone is it impossible for him to be happy? Context: pudge's obsession with alaska is that they are so different, that she is pulling him closer to his great perhaps while pulling his away from his ordinary life. In so many ways pudge's main fascination with Alaska is that they are different in so many ways so therefore better that him, because he idols her so much he is unable to see all the similarities they actually …show more content…

But to have an easier life we should just accept there is a problem and deal with it. Like all the characters in the book, it's hard to get through a maze without getting lost. But if we realize we are lost we can help yourself out. Context: When Dr.Hyde was introducing himself to the class, he told the class his one rule, listen to him at all times, he believes this is the most important aspect of a class because they are “engaged here in the most important pursuit of history.” (Q) Does Dr.Hyde being “smarter for longer” really make his smarter? I don't think because he claims to be smarter due to the amount of time he's been smart is a good claim. A student could have obtained more knowledge than he has even though he is younger that the teacher. Also he claims to be smarter yet, he begins sentences with “because” and “And” Context: Pudge tells us how he “escapes” the maze, instead of spending all his life trying to get out so he can be happy, he tries to be happy in the moment just by making it his new