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8. One Hundred Eight Days Before
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Looking for Alaska, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
How to Live and Die
Mystery and the Unknown
Loyalty and Forgiveness
Memory and Memorial
Identity
Mischief
Summary
Analysis
A week later, Alaska drives a group of people to McDonalds to study. A girl named Lara has to sit in Miles’ lap to fit in the car, which Alaska has named “Blue Citrus.” Hank suggests to Alaska that it would be healthier for her to smoke weed instead of cigarettes. Alaska tells him, “I may die young…but at least I’ll die smart.”
Once again, Alaska links her cigarette habit to death. Although her comment is a joke, she doesn’t seem to be at all afraid of dying and shows very little interest in taking measures to prolong her life.
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