How to escape the labyrinth?
"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?" These last words of Simon Bolivar would have been forgotten only if Alaska wouldn't have asked, "How to escape the labyrinth?" Even since I have read this book, 'Looking for Alaska,' by John Green I have framed these words near my study table. I keep asking myself, "How can I escape this labyrinth?" Everyone is stuck in his/her/their labyrinth and as much as we try to escape it, we end up getting stuck deeper and deeper. How could Alaska Young escape the labyrinth, straight and fast? And why can't we? Aren't we all in the labyrinth that she could escape so quickly? What are the strings attached to us? She didn't have a mother but many people don't have parents and they don't just kill themselves. Why did Alaska, of all people, escape her labyrinth? Guilt! It was the guilt and the feeling that she disappointed all the people in her life that made it easy for her to escape the l...