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kicked out of class M. defends Dr. Hyde, he thinks he's a genius A. thinks he's a "bitter old man"; he's too strict and too old. She thinks it's unfair that M. was kicked out because Dr Hyde is talking all the time and his students have to listen. they lay on the after leaving class A. and M. spend time together grass: Miles feels strongly attracted to A. the prank at the lake: every new students is pranked M. is thrown into the lake, he was wrapped in duct tape → M. could have died, he nearly drowned/ was hardly able to move Weekday Warriors pranked him because they thought that Chip ratted on Marya. One of them also pissed into Chip's shoes. M. is friends with Chip, who is also his roommate After this prank M. and his friends plan a prank for the Weekday Warriors. Alaska's death: she died in a car crash, she was very drunk she died on January 10 she, Miles and Chip were drinking → she kissed Miles and left in her car afterwards although she was drunk → her friends try to find out about the real reasons for her death. At the end of the novel it is not revealed if her death was an accident or suicide it might have been suicide as A. was a moody person with a lot of unhappy moments as her dad blamed her for her mum's death who died when she was a child. She didn't call 911, her mum died of an aneurysm. Not only does A.'s dad blame her for her mum's death but also does she blame herself. She talks a lot about dying and grief, e.g. "Pudge, what you must understand is that I am a deeply unhappy person." her life's library is very important to her, she reads a lot → Does A. want to escape real life? A. sees her life as a labyrinth she will be able to escape one day