Looking for Alaska: Difference between revisions

 

* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Played straight through most of the book.

** Maybe it's just "All Teenagers are Perverts"?

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Practically the binding of the pages for a few chapters. Averted somewhat in that they do relieve the tension with the occasional (and usually mild or nondescript) sex scene.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Alaska dies in a car accident at the novel's climax. The rest of the novel deals with how all the characters deal with this traumatic event. Generally everything looks up towards the end: the cast flawlessly pulls an incredible prank on Alaska's behalf, and Pudge writing a fairly upbeat solution to Alaska's labyrinth question, but the reader gets the sense that the scars still linger.}}

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Alaska.

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Cluster S Bomb would probably be more accurate, but there's still a surprising amount of swearing in a book intended for high-schoolers.

* [[Coming of Age Story]]

** Including burritos.

* [[Did Not Get the Girl]]

* [[Escalating War]]: It starts with attempted murder...

* [[Famous Last Words]]: Collecting these is Pudge's hobby.

* [[Forgotten Anniversary]]: A darker and rare non-romantic version; Alaska forgets the date of her mother's death, and freaks out.

** Also, that day turned out to be her and Jake's eight month anniversary, which might have prompted her to remember the death.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Chip and Miles, {{spoiler|after Alaska's death. And pretty much everyone else, to a lesser extreme.}}

* [[Left Fielder]]: When Lara asks Pudge if {{spoiler|he's ever gotten a blowjob.}} Pudge immediately lampshades this.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Takumi's......fox-head....thing.

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Pudge and Colonel would sometimes go into the bathroom together with the shower running to smoke because its against the rules and the steam supposedly clears the smell. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when they're caught.

** Mostly so the people they're based on can have plausible deniability.

* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: A fully justified one. {{spoiler|Miles and the Colonel never learn conclusively whether or not Alaska's crash was a suicide, but the story isn't about that; it's about them learning to move on from her death, and continuing their investigation can only spoil their good memories of her.}}

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: All the main characters smoke. The main villain ([[Anti-Villain|if he can even be called that]]), The Eagle, busts them for smoking.

* [[Sympathetic Adulterer]]: Both Alaska and Miles were in relationships when they hooked up {{spoiler|shortly before Alaska's death.}} Miles never admits to Lara that this happened and it is never commented on by anyone.

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Between Miles and Alaska. ''Oh, so much''. {{spoiler|Remains unresolved due to Alaska's death.}}

* [[Unusual Chapter Numbers]]: All of the chapters count off the days until {{spoiler|Alaska dies. The rest of the book count forward from her death}}.

 

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