The novel looking for Alaska is a story about a few kids and their time at culver creek. The book starts off with a kid named Pudge and his made his decision to go to culver creek to finish out his junoir year and look for “the great perhaps” (Green pg #). When he had got there from his home town he had met his roommate the colonel Aka chip which had become one of his best friends at his time at culver creek and met the colonels friends Takumi, a funny comical character who likes to rap and is one of the colonels right hand men when it comes to the pranks that the colonel likes to play on the weekend worriers. Alaska, a girl who Pudge comes to admire and fantasize about and who tends to have mood swings with in the story and at the end comes …show more content…
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 but this was not the only apparent sigh of depression in Alaska, the fact that she states in …show more content…
Being drunk and having baggage can have some bad side effects. when a person is drunk they tend to run off of their emotions and those emotions tend to be amped up from the usual state just like in Alaska’s state she was feeling guilty because she was cheating on Jake, sad because it was the anniversary of her moms death, and mad because she had forgot that it was her moms death anniversary. Those alone are a bad combo and it was those feelings that had made her commit suicide that