Why Is John Green Looking For Alaska

“When adults say, ‘Teenagers think they are invincible’ with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.” John Green, Looking for Alaska. This is when Miles realizes and decides how he can accurately explain his friends and how he learns to understand Alaska’s behavior especially. In a way, he is somehow describing
This story is narrated by the main character, Miles. Miles has chosen on his own to go to a boarding school, Culver Creek, claiming that he is off to find his “ Great Perhaps”, what he didn’t know is that he will end up falling in love and experiencing a great loss. The author John Green is trying to teach us the importance of love and loss through Miles’ and Alaska’s relationship. Throughout this book, Miles falls in love with Alaska and ends up losing her.
John Green shows us how Miles deals with love and how he copes with loss. He learns to love Alaska. Even though she has already been through her great loss, by losing her mother. “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” p.54. When Alaska says this we are see her perspective of life. Alaska is a live for the moment type of girl. She doesn’t hesitate to do whatever she wants.
He says "You can't just make me different and then leave," I said out loud to her. "Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was fine with just me and last words and school friends, and you can't just make me different and then die." For she had embodied the Great Perhaps—she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.”p.172. Miles had trouble letting her go. He had trouble believing that she is dead. Like I had stated before in this essay, Miles is very hopeful he sees things in a positive nature. When something happened to him he felt like his whole world fall apart. This is the first time we know of that he has dealt with this great of a loss, and I find it very normal to blame the person for leaving you by yourself. Especially in Miles case, he had never gotten closure. He brings up how he doesn’t know her actual last words, and I believe that if he did he would have a better time