Looking For Alaska Rhetorical Analysis

After studying Chip, Miles, Takumi and Alaska smoke at The Smoke Hole. The Eagle finds them and sends them to "Jury" the next day. Miles comments on how nonchalantly Alaska seems to be taking the situation, she responds "sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war” (Green 56). Twelve students make up the jury and they decide punishments for their fellow students for minor offenses like smoking. In the jury room The Eagle says to the jury that he only saw Alaska smoking. A few days after the basketball game, a rainstorm hits the school that lasts for days during which Miles keeps stays away from from Lara, and Alaska stays away from Miles. At that point, he finds her sitting alone and starts asking her what`s going on. She …show more content…
They couldn’t bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn’t even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to” (Green 100). When Miles finally does complete his Religion essay, which is worth half of his grade, he comes to that conclusion. In other words, he saying that people really just use religion to explain and comfort their feelings for things that are impossible to understand. If people didn’t think there was an afterlife, according to Miles, then they would be devastated, broken, and depressed. Miles had always believed in a god, but he’s just never been religious. Miles personally prefers Buddhism and Buddhist ideologies and teachings over the other religions he was taught because to him, it just makes sense. He says how, like in Buddhism, everything is connected and somehow tied to each other and that without one thing, it’s just not complete. “… when Dr. Hyde started talking about how Buddhists believe that all things are interconnected, I found myself staring out the window. I was looking at the wooded, slow-sloping hill beyond the lake. And from Hyde’s classroom, things did seem connected: The trees seem to clothe the hill, and just as I would never think to notice a particular cotton thread in the magnificently tight orange tank top Alaska wore that day, I couldn’t see the trees for the forest – everything was so intricately woven together that it made no sense to think of one tree as independent from that hill” – Miles (Green

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