Looking for Alaska
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Labyrinth and the Problem of Suffering
"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?"
--Simon Bolivar, as quoted in Looking for Alaska, page 19.
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Quotes from Looking for Alaska about the "labyrinth":
"That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape--the world or the end of it?" (19)
"Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. 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." (54)
Read over the following link and consider the various stages Pudge and the Colonel go through.
Match each stage to an important quote from the book in two column notes format.