Looking For Alaska Death

Sheila Sharp was sleeping over at a friend’s house, while a neighbor’s son, Justin Smartt and John’s friends, Dana Wingate were sleeping over at the Sharp’s in Cabin 28. The following morning Sheila returned from her sleepover to witness the horrific scene of her mother, brother, and Dana’s murdered bodies lying on the floor. All three were killed

Up to this point, as far as Green’s writing goes, Mile’s has never lost somebody close to him in his life. This changed when Alaska got in a fatal car accident only hours after Miles kissed her. Miles panicked after Alaska died because she was the closest friend he had ever made in his life. “She’s not dead. She’s alive. She’s alive somewhere. She’s in the woods. Alaska is hiding in the woods she’s not dead. She’s just hiding” (Green 140). Miles went into a very deep stage of denial after he found out Alaska was dead, the book then followed him through all five stages of grief, until finally he accepted Alaska’s death because he knew why she died, she had been driving to go put flowers on her mom’s grave. Going through the five stages of grief of a death of someone as close as Alaska helped Miles greatly in reaching “the great

In “Whoever We Are, Loss Finds us and Defines Us”, by Anna Quindlen, she brings forth the discussion grief's grip on the lives of the living. Wounds of death can heal with the passing of time, but in this instance, the hurt lives on. Published in New York, New York on June 5, 1994, this is one of many Quindlen published in the New York Times, centered on death's aftermath. This article, written in response to the death of Quindlen’s sister-in-law, and is focused on an audience who has, currently is, or will experience death. Quindlen-a columnist for the New York Times and Newsweek, Pulitzer Prize winner and author-has written six bestselling novels (Every Last One, Rise and Shine, Object Lessons, One True Thing, and Black and Blue) and has

When Beth goes out looking for Ellen she gets in an accident and is taken to the hospital. That night Dan goes to Alex’s apartment and attacks her and tries to strangle her, but then stops. While they are catching their breath Alex tries to stab Dan with a kitchen knife, but he gets it from her and leaves. Dan brings Beth home from the hospital and helps take care of her, Dan is downstairs as she starts a bath when Beth discovers Alex in the room with a knife. Alex attacks her and Dan hears the screaming and rushes in to attack Alex. He tries to drown her in the tub, but she comes back alive and is then shot by Beth.

The experiences one goes through in life can be hard for another to understand if they have never been through a similar experience. A challenge arises for writers to try to comprehend what the deceased experienced in life, and then to convey it so their readers can understand it as well. Even if immense description is provided, a reader might still not be able to imagine what a certain experience is like. For example, Matt Shepard was “viciously and repeatedly [beaten] with a .357 Magnum” (Loffreda 368). One can try and imagine how painful that would be, but unless it happens to the reader, he cannot know what it is like. Chris McCandless had to make his own fire, catch his food, sleep in the freezing cold, and starve. Most Americans have never had to gather their own wood and build a fire from scratch lighting it with a single match; they are used to just turning on the gas to their fireplace

The book I read for my report was called “Pop Goes The Weasel.” The main characters in my book are Geoffrey Shafer and Alex Cross. Geoffrey Shafer is playing this fantasy game on his computer, which he decides to play in real life.. His character is named, Death and he is very demented. Throughout this book Shafer goes on crazed missions to kill people (mostly women) in Washington, DC. Alex Cross is a detective that is trying to figure out who is murdering these people.

Within a year the police had found four more bodies of young women, and they formed a task force to apprehend the Green River Killer. It became apparent that the killer had chosen this stretch of highway to hunt for his victims. The women found here lived in such ways that no one really noticed if they went missing. This proved even more problematic for the task force, because they were searching for a killer who had committed the murders months prior. The bodies had decomposed and it was extremely difficult

Death consumes the world, there has been almost three million deaths so far with only three weeks into the year. There are people all over the world who come face to face with death daily. It seems as if death roams the world. Some deaths are more tragic than others. In the story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, several people die but the death of Curley’s wife was the most tragic of all. She was unjustly murdered and she didn’t even have an identity. When she died, she left the world in loneliness, in the end no one ever got to know her or mourn her death. She died alone. Innocent people die every minute, she was one of those innocent people. One minute, a person can be full of life and the next they’re gone.

The three were supposed to take a drive to the Cities and catch a Twins game, but Mike decided that his boys needed to learn a lesson. Instead, he drove the twelve blocks over to Carver Jacobs’ house to give the tickets to his kids. But Mike Burk’s car never made it to the Jacobs’ house. About a mile from their home on Exeter Lane, a deer ran out into the road. Mike instinctively slammed on the brakes. The car spun out and while it completely missed the deer, it found the front of a Pickman’s Appliance delivery truck. The doctors told Cody and his brother that their dad never felt a thing. Cody knew that wasn’t true. He suffered and bled out. He died in pain. And it was Cody’s

The universe let Miles meet Alaska through a "great perhaps". I don't know why the universe let me meet her, but she really impacted me as a person. It seems silly to be writing this in remembrance of Alaska. "She's just a character in a book" you might say. It also seems absurd to imagine a grief so real for a person that doesn't exist. I recently got this opportunity to write my book report in any form of writingp; one of the options was a eulogy. Since just experienced a great fictional lost, I thought this topic was truly meant to be. So why not write it about the one and only Alaska Young?

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive”(Green, 213). This seemingly simple sentence from the end of John Green’s novel Looking for Alaska is not as simple as it seems, for it is what identifies the most important theme in the book. The best way to show how this quote truly expresses the greater meaning behind our story, we have to compare the journeys of our two main characters Alaska and Pudge, or more so, their individual endings.

However their stubborn attitudes are forgiven. Subsequently, the Colonel, Miles, Takumi, and Lara all plan a tremendous prank in memory of Alaska, since she was often the mastermind behind the other

Alaska has a rich history involving many countries. Before the Europeans reached the Alaskan shores, the early settlers were believed to come from the land bridge connected to Asia. Alaska is in fact named after “Alyeska”, the name the Aleut people called it (meaning “The Great Land”). The Alaskan natives, the Aleuts, Yup'ik and Inupiat tribes were in the west and north. The Athabascan were in the center of Alaska, and the Tlingit and Haida Tribes were in the southeast. In order to survive, the tribes would hunt and harvest during the late summer and spring. In the winter, the natives would carve, weave clothes, dance and tell stories. These tribes did not live in igloos, except when they were traveling during an emergency. The Aleut tribes lived in barabaras, a house partly built underground. They used whale ribs or driftwood logs for their door frame. The Athabascans lived in portable tepees made out of caribou skin. The Tlingit and Haida tribes lived in wood houses that have several rooms. These tribes lived in peace until the Europeans came.

Question 2: Character Description Miles “Pudge” Halter is the first person you meet in Looking for Alaska. He is tall and scrawny hence the irony of his nickname Pudge, given to him by his soon to be good friend the Colonel. Pudge had never had many friends in his hometown but when he moved to Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama he met some new friends that changed his life. He finally stepped out of his box and was smoking cigs and playing pranks and drinking booze, all things him and his parents never would've thought he'd be one to do. Pudge finally had some adventure in his life.

One minuscule thing could set Alaska off, and she would be broken into a million pieces. Most human beings can relate to Alaska on many different levels. For example, all humans have some subject that is especially significant to them. Most humans also have a “wall” they put up to shield others from seeing who they really are. Alaska had a solid “wall,” and the people she was most intimate with did not know the first thing about her. For example, Alaska’s closest friends did not know the most important detail of her life. Most humans have something that makes them “tick” and influences their decisions. The death of Alaska’s mother is the defining moment in her life that makes her “tick.” The death of Alaska’s mother introduces the theme of morality into the novel. Mortality gives Alaska a scintillating personality that draws Miles and the Colonel towards her. After Alaska’s death, Miles and the Colonel have to face death and answer some tough questions about what happens to a human being when they