“The Eagle walked up to the podium and said, “Is everyone
here?”
‘No,” I said to him. “Alaska isn’t here.”
The Eagle looked down. “Is everyone else here?”
“Alaska isn’t here!”
“Okay Miles. Thank you.”
“We can’t start without Alaska.”
The eagle looked at me. Je was crying, noiselessly. Tears
just rolled from his eyes to his chin and the fell onto his corduroy pants. He
stared at me, but it was not the Look of Doom. His eyes blinking the tears down
his face, the Eagle looked, for all the world, sorry.
“Please, sir,” I said. “Can we please wait for Alaska?” I
felt all of them staring at us, trying to understand what I now know, but
didn’t quite believe.” (Green, 119)
In this quote all the students at Clear Creek Boarding
School are ordered to the gym early in the morning on a school day. This is not
a normal occasion and all the students know that something has happened. The
night before Alaska left the campus not telling anyone why or where. Miles
knows that Alaska left the campus the night before but had expected her to come
back. That is why he wants to wait for Alaska. I choose this quote because it
makes the reader want to know what happens next to Alaska and what The Eagle
has to tell them. I know at this point in the book I did not want to stop
reading and I hope this makes you want to find out too!
