How Is Looking For Alaska on Hulu Different From the Book?
8 Differences Between the Looking For Alaska TV Series and the Original Novel
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While Pudge and the Colonel figure out that Alaska was driving up to her mother in the series, it's Takumi who drops the hint about her mother's death in the book. At the very end of the novel, Takumi writes to Pudge and the Colonel, telling them that he too had a secret — he knew that Alaska had been looking for her mother that night when she was crying by his room. He admits that he played a part in letting her go as well, even though he knew she was drunk.