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A Plo Summary of Looking For Alaska by John Green

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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

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