Looking For Alaska Literary Analysis

Micaiah Marley
Ms. Fischer
Honors College Composition
23 May 2018
Not the End: Analysis of Death in Literature through Green’s Looking For Alaska, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and Golding’s Lord of the Files Death is a bleak reality for all but death of one is not the end for all. In Looking For Alaska, Pudge faces reality when his friend Alaska dies unknowingly, which leads him and his other friend The Colonel to look into how and why she ended up dying so quickly. Similarity, when all hope in the world is lost in The Great Gatsby, Nick ends up losing control of himself due to the lost of his friend Gatsby and ends up changing in a bad way. In Lord of the Flies, Ralph, on the other hand, wants nothing to do with Jack’s evil idea of society,

In Looking For Alaska, Pudge blames himself for the death of his friend Alaska. When he heard the news of Alaska's death he’s unable to move, saying, “I thought: It’s all my fault. I thought: I don’t feel very good. I thought: I’m going to throw up” (Green 139). At this moment Pudge did not know what to think of the situation since they were just together the other night. He feels as if it was his fault for letting her leave on her own. So he ends up blaming himself for the death of his friend Alaska. In The Great Gatsby, Nick is able to look back on everything that happens and move on from Gatsby’s death. Days after Gatsby’s death Nick states, “After Gatsby’s death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes’ power of correction” (Fitzgerald 176).After Gatsby’s death, Nick was angry at the fact that Tom and Daisy started all of this and left Gatsby behind like he was nothing. Ultimately, he decides to leave somewhere else because thinking about what they have done to Gatsby makes him look at all the evil in the world. In The Lord of the Flies, Ralph is sad that he had to lose his friend Piggy because of the boys savatree. As the boys were finally getting rescued Ralph cries out, “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy" (Golding 202). As the island went up in flames he “wept for the end of innocence” remembering his closest friend piggy that’s now dead. Nothing will never be the same as he knows now that he has lost his