This extract is about how Miles, the Colonel and Takumi find back into life. They often think about why Alaska died or if it was a suicide. Miles and Colonel have much conflicts in the beginning of the extract, but both get along. Then Miles and Lara speak out and he recognize that not only he and the Colonel are in sorrow of Alaska. The group also want to do a great prank for the Eagle.
I liked this extract, because it is about how find back after a fatality. Such fatalities are tragical and it is not easy to come back into the normal life. Furthermore they think about Alaskas death all day. Maybe it isn´t good to think all day about a death person, but they have to process it and I also think about much things which aren´t relevant for the present or the future. Miles and the Colonel wants to know how she died, so they also drink much alcohol like Alaska did. This shows us that both are really friends of Alaska and that´s good. Friendship is the most imprtant thing for me more than relationships in families, because you can´t choose them. I like that Miles, who didn´t have much friends in the past, found Chip and others, but I don´t like it, that they drink and smoke to be cool and that they play a lot of pranks for the Eagle. In my opinion that isn´t cool, but it´s great to see, that they hold together even if thy have conflicts.
All in all I would say, that this extract is nice, because of the thinking about death and the way back into life.
Ann-Kathrin
First, I agree with your opinion about the whole extract, that it's good.
AntwortenLöschenBut I disagree about the fact that you say that they drink alcohol just to be cool. I think they do it because it makes fun to be drunken.
Also I think it's no problem to think about a dead person every day because that mustn't be a bad thought like "Oh my god, she's dead I still can't believe". It can also be a positiv thought like "Imagine she would be here, she'd all make us laugh".
But what I also want to say to this chapter is that I'm afraaid about Lara because Miles totally forgets about her and that's pretty unfair because it seems that Lara is really in love with Miles. He just plays with her feelings.