Looking for Alaska: Difference between revisions

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* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Alaska. She even buries wine in the woods so she always has some. {{spoiler|And it kills her.}}

* [[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.

* [[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]]

* {{spoiler|[[Death By Newbery Medal]]: This Michael L. Printz Award winning book features a nerdy young teen who goes to a boarding school and meets a beautiful, adventurous girl with green eyes named Alaska. She has issues about her dead mother, so she drinks and smokes a lot and drives a beat up old car with bad brakes. Need I say what happens to her midway through the novel?}}

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

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

* [[Five Man Band]]: The Barn Night Crew

* [[Five-Man Band]]: The Barn Night Crew

** The Hero: Alaska

** The Lancer: Pudge

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* [[Riddle for The Ages]]: {{spoiler|Accident or suicide?}}

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Spell My Name With an S]]: Maxx, the stripper they hire for the prank. He's even called "Max with the two x's" a few times.

* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Maxx, the stripper they hire for the prank. He's even called "Max with the two x's" a few times.

* [[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.}}