Monday, 3 June 2013

Journal Entry #4

During this section of the book, Miles and Chip were really trying to find out the why Alaska died, either suicide or accident. They were trying to piece together the incidences before her death to try to figure out what was going through her head right before she hit the police car head on. Miles really wanted to find out her last words and wanted to get to know her in the most intimate way possible even in her last moments. I think the Miles is trying to find out more about Alaska is very typical when someone close to them has died. I know from past experiences when people die in your network of friends, even if you aren’t close to them, you feel regret and guilt for not spending time with them, or getting to know them better. I’ve felt the same way as Miles trying to find out as much as possible about a person and the way they think.

            Miles, Chip, Takumi and Lara make a prank happen that Alaska planned for her senior year. They get together a fake speaker that is really a stripper and in the end, he takes off most of his clothes in front of the school and the Eagle. Personally, I don’t really think this was the best prank, and honestly I think it was quite simple and not hard to execute. I think Alaska could have come up with a more complex prank with a better reaction from the person at the receiving end of it. I do like the way the Eagle didn’t punish the group of friends for the prank, even though he well knew it was their doings. I thought that was a good thing for him to do, and a better way to end the prank.

             In the end, Miles and Chip find out Alaska was on her way to see her mom’s grave for the anniversary of her death. I don’t really like the way John Green ends the book because you never fully understand what happens or what went through Alaska’s mind at the time of the accident. I feel like the ending is kind of a let down in that perspective, but it is a well written book, just not to my tastes. I don’t think I would recommend it to anyone, but it was good exposure to different kinds of books.

~Amanda
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  1. Unknown4 June 2013 at 07:59

    Personally, I disagree with the idea that the ending was a let down, because I do enjoy the way John Green ended this book. I like that he gave me the opportunity to decide for myself whether or not that Alaska's death was a suicide or an accident. When authors leave the end of the story open, it allows me to have my own opinion and end the story the way that I would have wanted it to be. In this case, I came to the conclusion that Alaska's death was a suicide. This is interesting because someone else who read the book could think that it was an accident, because there is no concrete answer.

    -Kira

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  2. Unknown5 June 2013 at 04:22

    I agree more with Kira's view on the ending because I feel like the author's point was to not give us any answer at all because he didn't have the answer either and it's just as much a mystery for us as it is for him. That being said, even with the prank sounding pretty hilarious, I agree that they could have probably pulled of something a lot bigger as their good-bye prank to Alaska but probably used this since it had been Alaska's idea which she panned out for senior prank.

    -Lauren

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