Plot Summary: Miles Halter moves from Florida home to go to Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama. Miles’ roommate, Chip "The Colonel" Martin gives
Miles a nickname of his own "Pudge. The Colonel introduces him to Alaska Young who
Pudge has a crush on. Pudge's love for Alaska grow as the novel progresses, but she is dating a college student. She constantly flirts with him throughout the whole book. While they’re talking,
Alaska tells everyone that her mother died of a brain aneurysm when she was eight years old. Alaska did not know to call 911 so she sat and watched her mother die. She carried guilt over her mother's death. One night Alaska falls awakened by the phone. She comes back into the room screaming and crying hysterically about being sorry. She forces Pudge and the Colonel to distract the Dean of Students so she can drive off campus. They go back to bed and think nothing of what had just happened. The day after Alaska leaves campus it is revealed that Alaska was killed in a car accident. Pudge and the Colonel try to uncover the truth about her death. They wonder if it was a suicide or an accident. They have to find out why she left in the first place. They come to realize that the night Alaska left was the anniversary of her mother's death, and she had possibly forgotten to visit the grave. They never find out whether or not she committed suicide. At the end of the novel, Pudge turns in an essay for school that
Focusing on her future freedoms she was interrupted at the door by her husband. There had been a mix up and Mr. Mallard was nowhere near the train accident. Mrs. Mallard’s heart condition could not take the weight of change and she passed away.
Darrell Mercer was forced to leave his home in Philadelphia to move all the way to California to live with his uncle against his will. He will have to go to a new school, to make new friends, and to have new teachers. Darrell will have to watch out for Tyray and Rodney the bullies of the school. It will be a hard time in his Junior years.
Although we do not know exactly what occurs, Oates provides some hints that she left with the
Mallard is sitting in her room her sister Josephine is knocking on the door. Josephine begs her sister to open the door thinking she is going to make herself sick. She tells Josephine to go away, while her thoughts are still running about the days ahead of her. “It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.” ( 548) As she opened the door to the room her sister was standing there and clasped her waist and they both headed to the stairs. Richard who is Mr. Mallard’s friend was standing at the bottom of the stairs. While they are all standing at the stairs the front door opens and Mr. Mallard comes walking in with his grip-sack and umbrella. He was nowhere near the accident and did not even know that there was one. “He was standing there amazed by Josephine’s cry; then at Richards’ quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife". ( 548) He was too late. With Mrs. Mallard’s heart condition and the joys of being free only lasted a short while. When seeing her husband walk through the door, it became too much for her to bare and it killed
you wonder what is going to happen to her. Also we learn that she only
On page 110, she says “They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out.”The ending was open ended, but we do know one strong fact that she is going to come back.
she may have gone. Jennifer did not have further information on how to contact Miriah.
“We went back to the hole, but Eunice had vanished. There wasn’t any way we could get her body” Singleton concluded.
They picked the locks on every trunk and found the bodies inside. Judd escaped them for a few days until she at last surrendered in a memorial service home on October 23.
matters worse since she is was left by herself so that she could get as much rest as possible as
But she actually dies because her free life has come to a sudden stop, And is heart-broken that she will not be able to live her life as she hoped she could, alone.
After all the students dropped out, Curtis tries to escape and once out, he tried to go back in. After his friend Johnny Cade gave a loud scream when hit by a burning roof part, but stopped by Dallas Winston, knocking on his head making Curtis pass out,
Pudge liked staying alone in his house, reading biographies, and keeping quiet. After Pudge met and fell in love with Alaska, he changed. Before Pudge had gone to Culver Creek and met Alaska, Pudge was significantly different, Pudge thinks to himself,“Although I was more or less forced to invite all my ‘school friends’... I had kept my popularity secret from her [Pudge’s mom] all these years.”
Summary: Looking for Alaska is the story of a young boy named Miles Halter who leaves his hometown in Florida in order to attend Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama for his junior year. This boy loves reading biographies and especially memorizing last words of famous people. At Culver Creek, he meets new friends such as Chip his roommate also called Colonel, Takumi and Alaska a beautiful young girl with whom he will fall in love but cannot have since she already has a boyfriend named Jake. Unfortunately, under their influence, Miles starts smoking and drinking alcohol. One night after having drank a lot of alcohol, Alaska and Miles start to kiss but do not go further because Alaska
Looking for Alaska is a book about a boy named Miles that goes away to a private school called Culver Creek were he meets a group of friends that he starts to hang out with throughout the year. He becomes very good friends with everyone and they begin to let him in on their secret spot called "the smoking hole", where they all smoke their cigarettes without getting in trouble. Soon he starts to get a crush on a girl named Alaska, which seems to already have a boyfriend. As soon as Miles starts to fall in love with her a horrible thing happens. Alaska dies in a terrible car accident, which turns into a very mysterious and confusing death. When Miles and the other boys get the news, they start fighting to find out the truth on what really happened. After reading this novel, one is left with the question, "How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?"