What I like about this book is, how you can fully identify yourself with the characters and empathize with them. At the part where Miles and the Colonel did learn Alaska has died, it made me feel really sad, almost as if I was the one who lost a close friend.
I heard from the author, did When writing about Culver Creek, he did not just make it up, but he so Referred to the school he went to as a teenager. All the places like the smoking hole, the swing or the lake Actually Existed! So maybe that's why you start to feel like being there, while reading.
Looking for Alaska is not the kind of book did Gives You indubitable facts, it only gives you opinions from different views and you can decide what you think.
Alaska For Example Describes her father as someone who blames his daughter for her mom's death; someone who she does not like to talk about, who maybe does not even love her enough. But later at Alaska's funeral her dad makes sure to close her coffin Because He remembered her telling him so eight years ago. It just made me think, did he DID care about her after all ...
My favorite part in the book though, what When Alaska, the Colonel, Lara, Miles and Takumi tell about their best / worst day. At That Point it was very easy to forget thatthey are only made-up characters. Their stories are just so touching and give them personality.
My class teacher made us read this book for school and I'm truly glad she did, Because otherwise I probably would not have known about it at all. I really enjoyed reading it and it made me think a lot. I can only recommend it!
