Annotations "Before" Looking for Alaska

Before:
o Page 3. “My mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party” Does this mean that he didn’t want one? Why”
o Page 3. “My mother preserver, awash in the delusion that I had kept my popularity secret from her all these years” Is she not happy about whom her son is?
o Page 4. “I could feel them both looking at me, waiting me to burst into tears or something” Is he sad about not having friends?
o Page 5. “I go to seek a great perhaps” What is a great perhaps?
o Page 7. “I watched them drive the winding road off campus” What was he planning on doing one the were gone”
o Page 10. “I laughed and nodded my head at him (that’s cool right? The nod?” I can tell that he is nervous. He wants to start over and make friends.
o Page 11. “I laughed… he smirked” the friendship is starting good.
o Page 15. “So, Alaska, sell us some cigarettes” He didn’t know that this is how it was going to be.
o Page 17. “The smoke will drive the bugs away” He is trying new things to fit in. Is this good or bad?
o Page 21. “Run, run, run, run, and took of, polling me behind her” I think that they are going to be good friends and help each other get through their problems.
o Page 23. “The geeks hate the preps” I can relate to him about the groups because had groups in my old school.
o Page 27. “Have a good time, he said, ya, I had a ball” This surprised me! How will he know who his real friends are?
o Page 29. “In a place were you never know what will happen or when” He is learning what is it like being alone.
o Page 33. “Nothing you can do! She said excitedly” I think he found his group of friends.
o Page 38. “I’m a bad boyfriend. And she is a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other!” Are they really staying together because they have nobody else?
o Page 40. “I’m sorry… but that’s bullshit…were not allowed to glance out the window?” Alaska was standing up for hi. I think this surprised him.
o Page 43. “Y’all smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die” What is the point of this”
o Page 46. “So they just suck?... I don’t understand the point of watching your terrible team gets walloped” Maybe it is an excuse for the school to get together.
o Page 49. “The ref came up and kicked him out of the game, I followed him” They always stick together.
o Page 54. “You spend your whole life in a labyrinth thinking of how you will escape it” Maybe your life is the labyrinth.
o Page 57. “You don’t need to be nervous” They are helping each other.
o Page 59. “We found you a girlfriend” The group of friends keep a lot of secrets but they always help each other
o Page 63. “Lara ran out and sat down next to me, are you okay?” hay did she got help him if he ignored her?
o Page 66. “Sadder than I thought I’d be, anyway” He realized what he had after it was gone.
o Page 67. “The rain came all at once in a furious torrent” Is this reached peace.
o Page 73. “She was smart, really, to rat on one of her friends” Why did she rat on her friends?
o Page 74. “Survival at the creek meant loyalty, and she had ignored that “She pretends to be someone she’s not.
o Page 77. “And plus, it’s really nice to have, like, friends” He is happier here. It bothered him before that he had no friends.
o Page 79. “Still, I felt unmistakably homesick” He sometimes doesn’t like his friends but they are the only ones he has.
o Page 81. “But I wanted to trust her, so I did” He needs someone to trust and really call “friend”.
o Page 88. “If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane” He thinks of himself as very little. Maybe he thinks this because of all his other experiences.
o Page 93. “I’m grateful for just having had my best thanksgiving in a decade “what is her family like?
o Page 95. “She didn’t have to rat” Now he’s getting mad because of this but… can he trust her now?
o Page 97. “I had a family” Did he forget about his family because it had been so long since he was with them?
o Page 99. “You don’t have to care for her” He really does care about her even though he can’t trust her.
o Page 110. “I’ll take the fault with Alaska” They always help each other.
o Page 115. “Best day of my life was today” Whatever happens later they all know that they love each other and they’ll always stick together.
o Page 117. “I just never cared anymore, about being a loser or not having any friends” He really did care and now he doesn’t have to worry about that
o Page 119. “Your dad blamed you?” Alaska showed everyone and made them think about not having a family.
o Page 123. “It was a fine end of the best day of my life” He is finally happy.
o Page 124. “Pudge, what you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person” Why is she so unhappy? How did she get this way? What does she want that she doesn’t have?
o Page 125. “Jeez, go easy on the guy? Why does Pudge want to go easy on him if the almost killed Pudge. Maybe he noticed how bad revenge is.
o Page 129. “I didn’t know how to talk to her” They barley know each other. Why are they together?
o Page 32. “I just have to go! Help me out of here!” What happened to her? Why did she want to leave? Was it because she cheated on her boyfriend?