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  • Essay / Creative Writing: In Search of Alaska By John Green

    Pudge has some answers and uses this review to extricate himself from his own suffering about Alaska. After exam week was over and I finished the novel, my friend and I started discussing the novel. We came to the conclusion that Looking for Alaska has a very simple and light plot at times, until you start to pick apart the different ideas that appear in it. We talked for hours in his living room about different themes that emerged from the plot. I realized how interesting the concept was and started looking for responses from other readers to see their perspectives. The idea of ​​searching for the Great Perhaps and the suffering of the labyrinth has always struck me. This novel really surrounds these ideas and death. I believe the novel aims to remind people not to hope and wait for a moment to happen, but to appreciate life and all the little moments that come with it. Alaska's death occurred right in the middle of the novel to remind readers how quickly life can be taken from you. From time to time, people get caught up in everything that is wrong in their lives and how it will get better with time. Pudge is focused on how he will find the Great Maybe and as Miles moves from school to school, he is searching for him. He is continually disappointed with his current state. In the first half of the novel, he hopes to find it. He does not realize that the Great