Looking for Alaska ~John Green~

                Alaska: girls name; meaning---that which the sea breaks against

Alaska Young: a girl searching for her “piece of oblivion”, lost in the labyrinth of life and death, and on a never-ending search to discover herself.

In Looking for Alaska, Alaska Young adventures with Miles Halter, a boy who is searching for his own last words, but discovers another’s. He falls in love with the sea breaker/Alaska and hopes to fulfill her dreams in himself.

But Alaska, haunted by her hopeless wandering in the labyrinth of life, takes refuge in death. She drags white tulips to her grave: white tulips of the family she never had, the adventures that always disappeared, her non-existent future, and most importantly, the questions never answered.

The greatest of these questions she asked is, “How do we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?” If I knew Alaska Young, I would answer her deepest question, the question her whole being died to answer with one word: Christ. Christ is freedom from her captivity to the endless maze of wandering. He saved me, by enslaving me to His grace, freeing me from the labyrinth of suffering.

“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”
 Galatians 5:1

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“You spend your whole life stuck in a labyrinth, thinking how you’ll escape one day and how awesome it will be, and I’m imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” –Alaska Young (John Green)