Responsive essay Looking for Alaska
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” John Green. In the book Looking for Alaska by John Green, the characters attempt to find every possible way out of a labyrinth, which everyone can find themselves while they still exist. While exploring, they discover that there is more to it than they can understand, because somethings just don’t have a fair explanation to make us truly believe. But, this doesn’t stop Green from suggesting us to try and seek a great perhaps, as Miles “Pudge” Halter does. The labyrinth of life can have drastic falls and tricky turns, but only one way out. The word labyrinth has a metaphorical meaning, which is life. We suffer through life every time we desire, because the suffering of life is product of loss. “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” John Green. We use the future as a distraction from this suffering, as a way out of it, because we are afraid to front-face the real problems. This is why we seek a great perhaps in life. That great perhaps is in everyones labyrinth, but not everyone finds the way to it. You can either let your mistakes and anger guide you to a “straight and fast”, as Alaska Young called it, end or learn to forgive yourself and others, as Miles “Pudge” Halter did. John Green shows us that we choose our own paths with the decisions we take and that there is still hope even when you think you are lost. “When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and