Entry Three- Summer Assignment

"When adults say,'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile om their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot begin and cannot end, and so in cannot fail. So I know she forgives me,just as I forgive her. Thomas Edison's last words were: 'It's very beautiful over there.' I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."

At the moment when this section is happening is on page 220-221, which is the end of the book. This is when Miles, Takumi, and the Colonel had just completed the ultimate prank that Alaska had planned to do before she left the school, and since her disappearance, they all thought in honor of Alaska that they should be the ones to go through with the plans Alaska had written and left behind when she left campus. Also a little earlier in the book in Miles' religion class they had to write a paper answering the question "How do we escape this labyrinth of suffering?" which was what Alaska had asked before her passing. This section of the book was featured in the essay that Miles "Pudge" Halter had written to answer that specific question.