Dialectical Journal For Alaska

“Thomas Edison’s last words were “It’s beautiful over there.” I don’t know where there is, but i believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful.” The last line of the novel is incredibly symbolic to the whole plot and story of Alaska, Pudge, The Colonel and Takumi. This ending is both climactic and anticlimactic. The end of the novel is when Culver Creek is on it’s last day of school, students are leaving to go home for the summer. Takumi wrote a letter to Pudge and The Colonel stating that he also loved Alaska, and that he also saw her the night she died, and he had let her leave campus too. This quote shows that Pudge finally has closure, and he can finally forgive Alaska for her own death. This sounds strange but Pudge and The Colonel feel responsible for her death, in the

This is when Pudge is ready to let Alaska rest in peace, and to soon forget about her. He has accepted that she will eventually become a memory and he will forget about her. He believes that wherever Alaska is now, she will forgive him for forgetting about her. When she died, Pudge feared that he was left “perhapsless” and that he will never live the life he wants, because it isn’t possible anymore. He wanted to share his Great Perhaps with Alaska and he had hopes for them to get together after their shared moment. Instead she left him with a kiss, and lost her own life to death. It tears him up that he will never know her last words, if she had left him on purpose, and if she truly loved him as he loved her. Pudge ends off with this quote because he comes to a realization that life goes on, and in order to find yourself and be happy, you have to carry on with “seeking for a Great Perhaps”. Although Alaska’s way out of the Labyrinth was straight and fast, Pudge’s way is to bear the labyrinth and take whatever comes his way. He chooses the Labyrinth and hopes for the best, and even though he will forget Alaska, she made him