Looking for Alaska is a book published in 2005 by author John Green. The book is intended for young adults, following the main character Miles “Pudge” Halter—a 16-year-old who begins to attend Culver Creek, a boarding school in Alabama. Miles soon meets a girl named Alaska Young, he becomes enamored with her throughout the book. Eventually, sharing a kiss with her on the last day she was alive. Alaska’s death in the story is sudden and was not built up (unless you count the time indicators) to the characters in the book and the audience. Alaska Young died in a car crash while intoxicated. She was having a “quick and easy death”. It’s speculated by Miles and his friends that Alaska’s death was not just an accident, but a suicide, and they are …show more content…
Alaska Young committed suicide due to the influence of alcohol and her grievance which also ended up as an accident. Now, how could she have committed suicide and been in an accident at the same time? This is because whilst she was driving while under the influence, her thoughts (which were crowded with grief) could have possibly affected her actions to not swerve when seeing the police car, perhaps believing that this is what she deserved meaning she committed suicide. Also, it’s an accident due to her being under the influence as well. She was unable to properly see and understand her surroundings, only knowing that she was going to go to where her mother’s grave was located. In the book, the reason for her death was that she had forgotten her mother’s death anniversary and decided to go to her mother’s grave to drop off flowers, which ended up in a car crash and her death. First off, let’s talk about the possibility of her death being an