Labyrinth In Looking For Alaska

“You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth” (Green 172). Miles “Pudge” Halter has an obsession with people’s last words. This obsession has led him to boarding school in search of the “Great Perhaps.” This is where he meets the intriguing Alaska Young who introduces him to the “labyrinth.” This eccentric girl helps him begin his journey in search of the “Great Perhaps,” but leaves him stuck in the labyrinth after a devastating event. I will be questioning whether or not Alaska killed herself, questioning what would have happened had she lived, and predicting what occurred after the events of this book. Did Alaska kill herself or was it just an accident? Alaska Young died in a car crash, and after her death, her friends discovered
First of all, there is a great deal of evidence supporting the conclusion that Alaska killed herself. On the night she died, Alaska was not thinking rationally because she was incredibly upset and drunk. Alaska had woken up in the middle of the night and realized she forgot the anniversary of her mother’s death. Alaska is blamed, by both herself and her father, for the death of her mother. She felt she was betraying and disappointing her mother by forgetting. Alaska was angry with herself when she drunkenly drove off in the middle of the night. Another reason supporting this explanation is that Alaska was always a highly spontaneous and unpredictable person. Alaska liked shocking people with her actions, and her death was no different: “But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about” (Green 128). Alaska’s death was spontaneous, surprising, and dangerous, almost identical to her personality. Regardless of all these details, Alaska still had so much to live for that would have kept her from killing herself. First of all, Alaska was surrounded by people who loved and supported