Yo Suicide In John Green's 'Looking For Alaska'

Looking for Alaska

“So this is how Noah felt. You wake up one morning and god has forgiven you and you walk around, squinting all day because you’ve forgotten how sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad, and the whole world is brighter and cleaner than ever before, like central Alabama has been put in the washing machine for two weeks and cleaned with extra-super strength detergent with color brightener, and now the grass is greener and the bufriedos are crunchier,” sixty- seven days before, “Looking for Alaska,” John Green. There are quotes like these that you may never see again. The school board has made a decision that there needs to be less fiction and more non- fiction in the school’s curriculum. Fiction offers the reader a wide range of life lesson that brings issues we encounter today. Fiction also helps

Alaska was the one who had died in the tragic car accident. You follow Pudge and Chip on the journey of how she died and why she did it. They never really figured out if it was suicide, But, they did find signs. Alaska had told Pudge and Chip about her mom, her mom had died of a brain aneurysm when she was just 6 years old, right in front of her. The day that Alaska had died was the anniversary of her mom's death and she forgot to put flowers on her mom's grave. Pudge and Chip assume that that's the reason that she went out driving even though she clearly knew he was drunk. They find certain signs that she was thinking of suicide but not many. She consumed a lot more alcohol than she had before, she lost interest in some things, she never went to her family's for the holidays she always stayed on campus, she never really had much sleep. These are some of the signs that she had shown, but she never told anyone anything. The suicide percentage was at 11.1 % in 2005, from Suicide Statistics. Alaska died on January 9, 2005 and no one really knows how or