Looking for Alaska- Entry 3

After reading this book I went back into it to find a section the grabbed my attention. Here is what I found. The Day after- pg. 139 "Looking for Alaska" The Eagle looked down and bit his lower lip. "Last night, Alaska Young was in a terrible accident."His tears came faster, then. "And she was killed. Alaska has passed away." For a moment, everyone in the gym was silent, and the place had never been so quiet, not even in the moments before Colonel ridiculed opponents at the free-throw stripe. I stared down at the back of the Colonel's head. I just stared, looking at his thick and bushy hair. For a moment, it was so quiet that you could hear the sound of not-breathing, the vacuum created by 190 students shocked out of air." This Grabs my attention because this is the biggest turning point in the book. Every scene in the book, everything that has come and everything I have read has led up to this moment. The biggest moment and sign of fear through out the entire thing. The word choice also grabs my attention because instead of using boring words, Green knows how to pull us in. For example, "shocked out of air, ridiculed opponents, stripe." All the little things add up to create the best over all affect.