'Looking for Alaska' by Amy Cook https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x brain dump!! en-us 2018-02-01 20:56:55 UTC 2026-03-17 22:47:26 UTC hello@padlet.com "“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” acook29 https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2509870252 2023-03-09 07:31:50 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2509870252 "The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive" acook29 https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2509871130 2023-03-09 07:32:40 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2509871130 The Colonel and Pudge feel this for letting Alaska leave that night acook29 https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2509871460 2023-03-09 07:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2509871460 Setting acook29 https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2509871988 A lot of the rebellion occurs at Culver Creek boarding school]]> 2023-03-09 07:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2509871988 Alaska talks often about suffering acook29 https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511254972 "There's always suffering.. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians and Muslims are all worried about."]]> 2023-03-10 03:14:23 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511254972 Pudge felt a sense of belonging when Colonel called him his friend. -Pg.38 https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511255744 2023-03-10 03:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511255744 Pudge and the Colonel's friendship becomes stronger as the text goes on acook29 https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511256374 ""It was fine. It had to be. I couldn't afford to lose the colonel" pg193]]> 2023-03-10 03:15:36 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511256374 The Colonel feels immense guilt after Alaska's death. Readers can see this at the funeral. acook29 https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511259164 "I am sorry Alaska. You deserved a better friend."]]> 2023-03-10 03:18:02 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511259164 Pudge had never had any alcohol or smoked before he came to the boarding school. https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511261230 2023-03-10 03:20:01 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511261230 Despite Pudge's parents being very minor characters within the text, readers see the importance of family through moments Green includes acook29 https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511264207 "I just needed you to pick up. I just needed you to answer the phone and you did." pg173]]> 2023-03-10 03:23:01 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511264207 Pg.45&56-Innocence https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511265863 Alaska describes Miles as adorable and cute and treats him like a 10yr old.]]> 2023-03-10 03:24:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511265863 Pg.57-Alaska tells the reason why she smokes https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511268881 "Y'all smoke to enjoy, I smoke to die"
This can be inferred as her wanting to die because she want to escape something or leave something behind.]]> 2023-03-10 03:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511268881 Loyalty and Friendship https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511273086 When Colonel, Takumi and Alaska heard about how Pudge was dunked in the river by Kevin and almost died they are willing to stand up for him.]]> 2023-03-10 03:31:18 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511273086 "The smell, unmistakably her, shocked me... The smell faded as I became accustomed to it and soon she was gone again." pg184 acook29 https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511292187 2023-03-10 03:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511292187 Pages 146 and 147 - Miles finally realises why Alaska is the way that she is. https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511305465 "It was the central moment of Alaska's life, when she cried and told me she messed everything up. I knew what she meant now. And when she said she failed everyone, I knew whom she meant. It was the everything and everyone of her life.... there comes a time that we realise that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow - that in short, we are all going. So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action."]]> 2023-03-10 04:01:11 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511305465 "We are all going, McKinley said to his wife, and we sure are. There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going, find your way out of that maze." - Page 147 https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511308140 2023-03-10 04:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511308140 Pages 147 - 149, Miles asks Lara to be his girlfriend https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511310565 Miles showcases the immense love he has for Lara in this moment ]]> 2023-03-10 04:06:31 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511310565 "The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive." - Alaska Young https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511311452 2023-03-10 04:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511311452 "And we laughed, but the laughs drifted into a thick, pervasive silence and I knew we were all thinking of her, dead and laughless, cold, no longer Alaska." https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511313621 2023-03-10 04:10:06 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511313621 "We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken." - Miles Halter https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511313967 2023-03-10 04:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511313967 "Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you." - Alaska Young https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511314244 2023-03-10 04:10:50 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511314244 "We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken." - Miles Halter https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511314703 2023-03-10 04:11:25 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511314703 "The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open." - Chuck Palahniuk https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511315573 2023-03-10 04:12:30 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511315573 'And now is a good time as any to say that she was beautiful' Pg.27 - Miles https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511592962 2023-03-10 09:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2511592962 The colonel and Pudge feel guilt, as they are what led to Alaska's death. If they weren't all together that night, Alaska wouldn't have died. https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2520154677 2023-03-17 00:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2520154677 Page 174 & 175- Regret of letting Alaska go as well as realising why she is the way she is. https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2526248866 "It's OK," I said, reaching into my pocket for a lighter.
"No Pudge, it's not," he said throwing down his cigarette and standing up, suddenly pissed. "Goddamn it! God, how did this happen? How could she be so stupid! She just never thought anything through. So goddamned impulsive. Christ. It is not OK. I can't believe she was so stupid!"
"We should've stopped her," I said.
He reached into the stall to turn off the dribbling shower and then pounded an open palm against the tile wall. "Yeah, I know we should have stopped her, damn it. I am shit sure keenly aware that we should have stopped her. But we shouldn't have had to. You had to watch her like a three-year-old. You do one thing wrong and then she just dies. Christ! I'm losing it. I'm going on a walk."
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"Yeah. Yeah. I might. You never know. It's just. It's like. POOF. And you're gone"]]> 2023-03-22 00:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/acook29/bhq80xi3xv6x/wish/2526248866