Theme and Summary of Looking for Alaska

The book Looking for Alaska is about a boy named Miles Halters who loses a dear friend (not saying who, how or why). So Miles and his friends have to cope with their disapearance. For most of the second half, Miles is very sad and at many points angry that his friend was gone mostly because of how he wanted questions answered that could only be answered by the person they could not find. But once Miles came to grips with his friend being gone was when the theme was realized. Even if something is lost to the naked eye, almost nothing is ever completely gone. Miles wrote in his final paper that, "Those awful things are survivalable, because we are as indestructable as we believe ourselves to be" (Green 220). Miles also mentions in the paper that energy is never created or destroyed. It only changes shape, size, etc. People (including myself) that in story telling (but mostly TV) characters never actually stay dead. This is more of a literal sense but in writing that is very true in a deeper meaning. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet commit suicide which eventually results in the families making up. In conclusion whatever you may have lost, may it be as insignificant as your pencil, or as meaningful as a loved one. Nothing will ever truely be gone.