<Dd> Takumi is a gifted Japanese emcee / hip - hop enthusiast and friend of Alaska and Chip . He often feels overlooked in the plans of Miles, Chip, and Alaska . Towards the end of the novel he returns to Japan . </Dd> <Dd> Lara is a Romanian immigrant, she is Alaska's friend and becomes Miles' girlfriend and, eventually, ex-girlfriend . She is described as having a light accent . </Dd> <Dd> Mr. Starnes is the stern Dean of Students at Culver Creek, nicknamed "The Eagle" by the students . He is pranked by Miles, Chip, Alaska, Lara and Takumi multiple times throughout the novel . </Dd> <P> After Alaska's death, Pudge and Colonel investigate the circumstances surrounding the traumatic event . While looking for answers, the boys are subconsciously dealing with their grief, and their obsession over these answers transforms into a search for meaning . Pudge and Colonel want to find out the answers to certain questions surrounding Alaska's death, but in reality, they are enduring their own labyrinths of suffering, a concept central to the novel . When their theology teacher Mr. Hyde poses a question to his class about the meaning of life, Pudge takes this opportunity to write about it as a labyrinth of suffering . He accepts that it exists and admits that even though the tragic loss of Alaska created his own labyrinth of suffering, he continues to have faith in the "Great Perhaps,"' meaning that Pudge must search for meaning in his life through inevitable grief and suffering . Literary scholar Barb Dean analyzes Pudge and the Colonel's quest for answers as they venture into finding deeper meaning in life . Because this investigation turns into something that is used to deal with the harsh reality of losing Alaska, it leads to Pudge finding his way through his own personal labyrinth of suffering and finding deeper meaning to his life . </P>

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