Looking for Alaska

In the book Looking for Alaska by John Green I think it shows that people can bring others together but they can also break them apart. I think that this is showed by how in the beginning Alaska held them together like a glue she was the life and stimulator of the group and she always made things exciting, and after she died Pudge and the Colonel were always fighting and they could never stop disagreeing. The problems she caused them to have a big fight and for Pudge to leave the Colonel and go on his way. Also with Alaska they went on adventures and were much happier now that she is dead they barely even get together anymore and they never talk. 

It is not only that she died that is causing a stir it is the fact that they see her dying in a different perspective. Pudge is upset because he loved her and the day she died she made out with him and he hates her for leaving him and he wants to believe that she loved him and that she would leave her boyfriend for him. Everyone knew that she was random and impulsive and that her making out with Pudge meant absolutely nothing to her and he refuses to believe that even though he knows it. I think that if it meant something to her she wouldn't have risked riving drunk. The Colonel knows that that is what Pudge thinks but he knows that it meant nothing and he is more focused on finding out if it was a suicide or an accident. 

I think that the tension between Pudge and the Colonel is not going to subside but I think that Pudge needs to let go of the notion he has that Alaska secretly loved him. I think that if he lets that go them him and the Colonel might be able to reconnect. I think that Pudge hates Alaska because he knows that she really didn't care about the kissing and he hates her for being strong enough to be able to leave him and get herself killed. I think he is afraid to find out the truth about if it was a suicide because it would devastate him.

I think that it is important that Pudge lets go of his fantasy in order for the relationship to get back to the way it was. The Colonel also needs to be more supportive of Pudge and not just mainly focus on solving a mystery. I think that this problem can be solved and it will get better but without Alaska it will never be the same.