The end of Looking for Alaska. SPOILER
I liked the closure the author gave the reader. it wasn't just a big author's intrusion that was all like "people who die might actually be gone forever. but believing in god to gain closure is okay." it was more for the reader to feel a comfort at the end of the book, like it wasn't an ending that was hard, or emotional. it was just an ending that had closure for a lot of things, not just death, but for mistakes and accidents. This made me realize that in a way, this book was mainly about life. living. growing up. having experiences, making mistakes and trying to find who you are before you end up in the ground. i liked how i could tell that most of what pudge was saying was an authors intrusion, but at the same time it fit so perfectly into the story that it didn't really matter. it was mostly some kid growing up and figuring things out like how will i get out of this labyrinth. I really think this only worked because the author made the characters come to life and believable. Because if they weren't as fit and you weren't able to relate to them it was just a book about some kids that had a friend who died and they do some pranks that aren't really funny and they go around and are realize some stuff about dying and how to cope with it because it was their friend that died and they think they killed her whatever. But there's really a lot to think about in this book. it's not just some kids who do pranks. they do pranks because they gain respect from some of the kids in their school, and they gain ego from their success and pissing off other people. it's not just about a kid questioning where people go when they die. it's actually making the reader taking that into consideration and wanting to know what happens. I feel like other than realistic characters that the author uses to reel you into this book, it's also the suspense of having 20 days before, 10 days, 5, 1. and then wondering what actually happened, and wanting to learn what happened to these characters and having so many cliff hangers. In my mind, this was a pretty successful book for me. i really couldn't put it down.
Sabrina, work on organizing this into a more structured post - begin by introducing the book and consider using intentional paragraphs.
ReplyDeleteSabribri: I really liked this, because I felt the same way. I couldn't take my mind of the book until I found out what happened to Alaska. Something Leil a told me before the I read the book was that it's really all about these kids doing what they want and having fun. I really tried to look for this in the book, and it wasn't hard to find it. So many people do the things they do because they want to look cool or because other people are doing it to, but I think you should either just not do it, or do what these characters are doing, which is just having fun. I think that's why it works, because I don't even think that the characters are that realistic.
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