Can we find meaning to life without those answers? Can we find a way to acknowledge the reality and injustice of suffering without giving in to hopelessness? Those are the questions I think Miles is confronting at the end, and I wanted to argue that through forgiveness, it is possible to live a full and hopeful life—even if our world is saturated with injustice and loss. Shop Elle. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Shelf Life: Louise Erdrich. Women Voted. Pudge and the Colonel Hulu.
This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. The more I think about it, the more interesting it becomes. The complex and flawed ideas associating whiteness and purity resonate for both swans and Alaska, too. Most importantly, swans are traditionally associated with a passive beauty: They are things to be looked at.
But in fact swans are capable of agency and power and biting people on the butt. It certainly contains more sex and f-bombs. I wanted to write about sexuality and substance abuse because it felt true to the characters, who are in many ways more screwed up and self-destructive than the characters in my other books. My grandmother taught me to never say never, but certainly there will not be a sequel in the foreseeable future. If I were to teach Alaska, I would ask: What is the point of death?
That is not really much of a lesson plan, though. That would be cool, except I do not own the movie rights to Looking for Alaska. Paramount owns them. Update in Looking for Alaska is now an 8-episode Hulu Limited series! You can find out it more here on the Looking for Alaska adaptations page. My intention was for it to be a complicated mess that was totally impossible to parse, just like real romantic interactions between teenagers in high school. And also adults after high school. I think our feelings for each other are really complicated and motivated by an endless interconnected web of desires and fears.
I wanted to reflect that as best I could. In Catcher in the Rye, for instance, Holden Caulfield shows you over and over again that he is an inveterate liar, but for some reason you still kind of suspect that he is telling you the truth.
In other novels American Psycho comes to mind , the narrator is clearly unreliable. And when you look back at the dead, I think they are inevitably more beautiful. And while some other people—Takumi and Jake for instance—also find her physically attractive, the Weekday Warriors never express much physical attraction to her. Not necessarily. Stories belong to their readers, and if I did my job, there are a bunch of different good readings of the book.
As they wrestle with the fact that they may never know what happened to their friend, the boys discover that Alaska's accident occurred just after midnight on the day after the eighth anniversary of her mother's death.
Theorizing that Alaska must have been racing to the cemetery to visit her mother, her friends try to move on with their lives. Takumi departs unexpectedly for Japan, but leaves a note behind, confessing that he, not Pudge, was the last person to see Alaska alive. She was distraught at having missed the anniversary of her mother's death, Takumi says, because she always put new flowers on her grave each year. Much the same as Pudge, Takumi blames himself for not stopping Alaska from driving that night.
Takumi's note puts the final piece of Alaska's puzzle into place for Pudge, who now knows what Alaska's last words were , and realizes that he has to let go of his friend. Ever the free spirit, Alaska wouldn't want anyone to think that they could control her in the way that Pudge and Takumi wish they had that night.
Pudge reasons that Alaska forgives him for letting her leave on the night of her death, and admits that he forgives her for leaving him behind.
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