https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa Review by Kamaiyah Jackson en-us 2018-12-20 14:42:32 UTC 2026-02-26 07:42:02 UTC hello@padlet.com kjackson212 https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa/wish/316172352
Looking For Alaska is a heart wrenching novel centered around self discover. Miles, or Pudge as he’s referred to in the book, is leaving to the go the boarding school his father went to as a child. Upon arrival he meets the two people he will spend the rest of his summer with. One of the being Chip, who they call the colonel. He is Pudge's room mate. The colonel introduces Pudge to one Alaska Young. Through Alaska, Pudge meets Takumi and Lara and with them he spends the rest of the school year going on adventures and getting into trouble, that is, until tragedy strikes.

]]> 2018-12-20 14:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa/wish/316172352 kjackson212 https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa/wish/316173243 I think that this cover most represents the book. I think the smoke signifies Alaska's nasty smoking habit that eventually all her friends took up. In the book the book Alaska says " Y'all smoke for fun, I smoke to die." Later this becomes true for everyone involved with Alaska. Smoking to die and smoking to forget. 

]]> 2018-12-20 14:50:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa/wish/316173243 kjackson212 https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa/wish/316184161 2018-12-20 15:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa/wish/316184161 kjackson212 https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa/wish/316184330 I feel this is something that Pudge would have sung for Alaska. He loved her in such a juvenile when Alaska wanted to be loved as an adult. Their relationship would never work out. ]]> 2018-12-20 15:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa/wish/316184330 kjackson212 https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa/wish/316187883 I would recommend this book to anyone who needs a good cry. It was truly in one the saddest and thought provoking books i've ever read. Looking For Alaska is constantly question the way we see ourselves and each other and continually addresses what it means to truly enjoy all life has to offer. I feel like this is a book every teenager should read. The older you get the harder it is to find yourself. You spend a long enough time pretending to be something, you will eventually become it. By reading this book you might just find out who you want to be. ]]> 2018-12-20 15:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa/wish/316187883 kjackson212 https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa/wish/316188335 ¨I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it. There was pain. A dull endless pain in my gut that wouldn't go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving.¨

This really resonated with me. When you think about it, no matter how someone dies, they'll never be in pain as long as you. They're dead and gone and you're left alive grieving and trying to deal with what happened.




]]> 2018-12-20 15:26:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa/wish/316188335 kjackson212 https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa/wish/316413713 ¨The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.¨

They say you can never be disappointed as a pessimist. In situations either you already expected the worst so you're not disappointed or pleasantly surprised because it when well. ]]> 2018-12-21 15:15:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa/wish/316413713 kjackson212 https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa/wish/316430118 ¨I thought of Florida, of my "school friends," and realized for the first time how much I would miss the Creek if I ever had to leave it. I stared down at Takumi's twig sticking erect out of the mud and said, "I swear to God I won't rat."

I understand that feeling. Like being able to finally feel like you have friends. When i got to SLA i finally got to have that feeling. ]]> 2018-12-21 16:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kjackson212/6qwci2tus4wa/wish/316430118