Looking For Alaska Essay

I am reading Looking For Alaska by John Green and am on page 163. This book is about a boy named Miles who goes to a boarding school in Alabama. There he meets the Colonel, his roommate, who nicknames him Pudge. The Colonel introduces him to Alaska, whom Pudge develops a crush on, and Takumi. The four of them go to basketball games together and play pranks on the weekday warriors. One night Alaska, the Colonel and Pudge are drinking and playing truth or dare when Alaska suddenly says she needs to leave. The two boys decide to light three strings of fireworks to distract the eagle, the strict school counselor, and create a divergent for Alaska to leave. Alaska escapes successfully but eventually runs into a police car and a truck who had jackknifed. She dies instantly and there will be a funeral held

I think that this will happen because they were the last people who saw her before she left, and because they were the ones who helped her escape without the Eagle stopping her. That night, the boys “walked to their bathroom, grabbed the three strings of leftover firecrackers from beneath the sink, and ran to the Eagle’s” (133). The following day, the Eagle held a school meeting and announced Alaska's’ death. Both boys loved her and felt guilty because they were the last people who saw her. However, they are the type of people who will investigate something if it is left unsolved. And Alaska's death was just that. A mystery. Another reason I think this will happen is due to the fact that they both feel betrayed. Alaska left that night pissed and in a hurry. After a phone call with her boyfriend, Jake, Alaska came in an screamed “I JUST HAVE TO GO. HELP ME GET OUT OF HERE!” (132). Because of her behavior, I feel like it will help push the boys towards investigating her death. As they both are curious as to what caused her to suddenly break down and leave in the blink of an