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In the book Looking For Alaska by John Green, the book was about a kid named Miles who finally moved out of his family house to attend boarding school. While at boarding school, Miles meets a decent amount of people, but he meets this special person named Alaska. Front the moment Miles laid his eyes on Alaska, he knew that she was different. After Alaska and Miles get close and everything while lying in bed intoxicated one night, Alaska picks up her phone and is on the phone and when she comes back she Yells at Miles and Cornell to tell her that she needs to leave. After she leaves, she drives down the road and runs into a police car. Running into a police car is bad but she was very intoxicated so her death was not a suicide, it was an accident. Alaska killed herself, but her death was completely accidental and people get the two things confused. People hear that someone killed themselves and go …show more content…

When she slept with Miles, she had never been as happy as she was with him. So when she found out that she had forgotten about her mother's death anniversary, the day she went to visit her in the cemetery, she just broke. She broke for 2 reasons: one, the obvious one about forgetting about the anniversary and two, the joy she felt that day with Miles caused her guilt to grow even more. So she sabotaged that great night with Miles and rushed out of the place to visit her mother at the cemetery. Remember, the main reason for her guilt was that she never made the decision, and didn't act to prevent her mother's death by calling 911. So here she is feeling more guilt than she has ever had in her life and she faces a roadblock. She decided that instant not to stop to prevent her from ending her life and did what she did with her mother by not doing anything to avoid her death. She freed herself of the guilt by applying the same lack of action she had done that resulted in the death of her

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Reason number one, Alaska had forgot that her mom’s death anniversary was that day if she would have remembered that her mom’s death day was that previous day then she would have gone to the grave sight a lot sooner and would have gone wile she was not under the influence of the alcohol making her not to have encountered the over turned truck and not have had the thoughts that she did that made her commit suicide. Reason number two, this web site states on suicide that “The root of suicide is depression”(http://www.practicalhomicide.com/articles/suicide.htm) and continues to state “the investigator often times in suicide cases finds sighs of psychological torment” and this would make since in the case of Alaska’s death because she has a depressing feel to her as well as we find out in the barn the night of the weekend warriors prank that the crew (Pudge, Takumi, chip, Alaska, Laura) had plan to pull. Afterwards they had a conversation about the best and worst day, Alaska’s best day was the day she went too the zoo with her mom and then the next day her mom had died she was eight years old and that tends to traumatize kids and thus effecting her mental state

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Looking for Alaska by John Green has been a hotly debated book for almost ten years. As soon as it cooled off of the presses, it seemed, the novel was immediately under fire. Despite parent complaints and the uneasiness of society centered around this book and others like it, Looking for Alaska should not be banned. The most common objection about the book is the sexual content depicted in it. It has been called lewd, garbage, and filth, among other things.

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“You cannot open a book without learning something.” This old Irish Proverb is true in my case, I did learn something. In John Green’s novel “Looking for Alaska” (223) I learned that to forgive you need to forget and to forget you need to forgive. It is an ongoing cycle about forgive and forget in the everyday life of Miles Halter. “Looking for Alaska” was written in Miles Halter’s point of view, you know all of his actions and thoughts.

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When Miles first found out he blamed himself. He blamed himself for not trying to stop her, for not saying she was too drunk or that she was too upset. Miles just went along with what she told him to do. He was blinded by her saying, “to be continued,” not knowing that after he let her go that would be the last time. He tried to understand why she was so frantic that night.

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