How To Write An Essay On Looking For Alaska

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Miles moves schools and he meets Alaska who he falls in love with and later dies. Based on the book Looking for Alaska by John Green, Alaska could have just played truth or dare with her friends and not get drunk which caused her to not think clearly. If Alaska remembered her mother's death anniversary, she wouldn't have been in a rush to go see her. Lastly, if Alaska wasn't sad and thinking about cheating on her boyfriend Jake, she could have had a clear mind. Alaska could have avoided getting into her car accident if she wasn't playing truth or dare with her friends and getting drunk, if she had remembered about her mother's death anniversary, or if she had not cheated on her boyfriend. Alaska was playing truth or dare with Miles and Chip while they were extremely drunk. She got so drunk that her alcohol level was 0.24. Chip askes the officer that was at the scene the night Alaska crashed “do you think it was an accident?” …show more content…

Miles, Chip and her were playing truth or dare while they were all drunk. Alaska got dared to kiss Miles and they went a little too far with it. Chip talked to Alaska’s boyfriend, Jake, on the phone a few weeks after Alaska died trying to figure out what she was doing that night. Miles didn't want to hear about what Jake had to say and Chip got mad. Chip said to Miles, “And if she were still here, we both know that she would still be Jake’s girlfriend and that there’d be nothing but drama between the two of you - not love, not sex, just you pining after her and her like, ‘you're cute Pudge, but I love Jake.’ If she loved you so much, why did she leave you that night? And if you loved her so much, why’d you help her go? I was drunk. What’s your excuse?” (Green 171) Miles thinks that Alaska liked him more than Jake and Miles wanted Alaska to break up with him. But Chip thinks that if Alaska were still with them, she would be flirting with other guys, not just

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