Blog Post #31: Looking for Alaska by John Green

So far in Looking for Alaska by John Green, Pudge has gotten to know Alaska and Colonel better and a lot has been revealed about Alaska. I passed the part where Pudge and Alaska stay on campus for Thanksgiving and Pudge and Alaska went to Colonel's trailer/home and they all sort of opened up to each other and learned more about each other's backgrounds. And Alaska told Colonel that she was the one who ratted on Mayra and now he feels he can't trust her with pranks by herself anymore. 


I think after the big unknown thing happens Alaska is going to be in A LOT of danger. I know that she goes missing but I don't know exactly what happens to her. I think that the Weekday Warriors get her for being good friends with Colonel because they almost drowned Pudge for knowing the Colonel in the beginning of the book. Or another reason why she goes missing is because of the unknown prank. Maybe she gets caught and gets punished by someone or maybe it backfires. 


So now I am going to focus on Alaska, I think she is the kind of girl who actually doesn't mind getting herself into trouble because she has before. So I think that she never expects to get into deep trouble which is why maybe she is careless about her prank this time and it comes back to get her. And I also think this has something to do with her ratting out Mayra. But I get her point of view because that was the only way she would have stayed in the school, and I understand why she wants to stay in the crappy school so badly, because she has no home, no family. I think she physically does, but I think "home" is full of bad memories and I think emotionally, she doesn't have a family. Which is why I wonder, why does the author keep so much about Alaska away from us? We don't know much about where she comes from or her past or background. We just know who she was when she came into the school. So I wonder, who is Alaska? And I want to know how this affects everybody else. Also, I think this will mostly affect Pudge because he likes her a lot and wants her so bad, but it might also affect Colonel because he knew her wayyyy longer.


In conclusion, I hope the book reveals more about Alaska because right now the book isn't giving many clues about what is going to happen.