Analysis Of Miles Halter, A Tall Stocky Junior

My first day of the second grade, I knew no one except the teacher and my younger brother. Kindergarten and first grade had been easy enough, but I was scared of the upcoming year. The only thing I knew about being the new kid was that it hadn’t panned out too great for Addie from the American Girl books. Mrs. Henson’s class was fairly quiet throughout the day, for most kids were nervous or tired. We neared the end of the day and I was ecstatic over the fact that hadn’t made a complete fool of myself. I hadn’t met anyone yet, but I thought that that would be a challenge for another day. Unfortunately, that’s not what Mrs. Henson had in mind. She sent us all out to recess with a grin plastered on her face and with me practically kicking

The entire class shared Jake’s view. No one felt the need to squander his or her social capital in defense of the weirdly dressed new kid. Side chatters and new conversations spawned on. The first three sentence about me in my new school involved “Hello”, yoga ball and panda. Embarrassed, I locked eye with the usual spot between my shoes as the crimson red slowly retreated from my face.

No sleep could pass the governess's eyes without continually casting thought to the mere beauty of the child she had met only days earlier. The meeting with the young master Miles only stringed the governess's infatuation with the physical features of the young children. After receiving by letter that Miles was expelled from school, the governess herself found malcontent for the boy, but her first glance at the boy on meeting him cast away all previous distaste.

Miles Halter wanted to go to a boarding school to seek “The Great Perhaps.” There he is roomed with Chip, who is well known as ‘The Colonel’, who takes him under his wing. The Colonel takes Miles to meet more people and introduces him to Takumi and Alaska, Chips’ best friends. Soon Miles is included in the group of three and that is where he slowly but deeply falls in love with Alaska. They all always find there way into trouble and make many practical jokes on the school

Knowles crafts the story from Gene Forrester’s mature, adult perspective as he looks back on his distressed experience at the Devon boarding school. While at the school, the insecure Gene befriends his roommate, Phineas, who is athletically superior but academically inferior to Gene. Phineas leads Gene to do many activities against school rules, but because of Phineas' uncanny ability to talk his way out of punishment, the pair never suffer the consequences of their actions. As the novel and their friendship progresses, it becomes clear that Gene envies Phineas' athleticism and the charm

Paul’s father made the choice of moving him and his family to Tangerine Florida, because he got a new job offer and wanted to take it. Paul was excited for his fresh start at a new school with a new name other than “Mars.” Moving to a new school was great for Paul at first, but then everything went downhill from the time he walked through the doors of Lake Windsor Middle School. Paul was told that his classes were outside in portable classrooms, while the sixth graders would be inside with regular classrooms to be in. At the end of the day, everything got worse. Paul faces another complication at Lake Windsor Middle School.

The main character, Eleanor, has bright red hair, an usual sense of style, and is a little chubby, which make her an outcast. On her first day at school, everyone ignores her requests to sit next to them on the bus. Everyone except for Park, the only Korean kid who lives in their neighborhood. Both kids are outcast at their school. In addition to being bullied, Eleanor has an abusive step father who is an alcoholic. At first the completely ignore each other, but over time they begin to share comic books and tapes. This quickly becomes a routine and one day Eleanor decides to finally speak to Park. This friendship quickly turns into love, but their families have other plans. Richie, Elanor’s step father, forbids her from dating, and Park’s mother as a vision of Park dating an typical girl.

At school, Charlie finds a friend and mentor in his English teacher, Bill. He also overcomes his chronic shyness and approaches a classmate, Patrick, and his stepsister Sam, become two of Charlie's BFFs. Charlie’s new found friends – Sam, Patrick, Mary Elizabeth and Bob - aren't exactly popular and are outcasts themselves. They are all seniors and often hang out at the Big Boy except Bob who doesn't go to school.

Before August attends his new school, he gets to check it out first. He also gets the opportunity to meet three new people: Jack Will, Julian, and Charlotte. “ What’s the deal with your face? I mean were you in a fire of something?” This is when August gets that feeling that this could be the worst decision he has ever made. However, August’s final decision is to attend Beecher. His first day of school is similar to what he expected. People staying away from him and

When only two people show up, his parents finally realize why Miles wants to leave his public school in Florida to go to the private school in Alabama for his junior year. Miles is a guy that is obsessed with last words, so when he tells his parents the reason he chose Culver Creek Preparatory School was because of a poet named Francois Rabelais. Only because his last words were “I go to seek a Great Perhaps”. That’s why Miles is going, so he doesn’t have to die to seek his Great Perhaps (page 5). When it is time for Miles to move in to his new school, his parents leave him to set up on his own. He thinks about what his roommate will be like considering he is an only child that has never roomed with anyone before, but he does not meet his roommate like he expects. He meets his roommate half naked fresh out of the shower. His roommate introduced himself as Chip Martin, a.k.a. The Colonel. They each take turns talking about themselves and Chip gives Miles the nickname Pudge to counteract what he actually looks like,

Miles (aka Pudge) Halter is a loner at his school in Florida. Only having friends so he can have someone to at least talk to at school. Miles, for some reason is obsessed with last words and can recite any famous person or presidents last few words before they died. Miles’ family picks a nice boarding school in Birmingham, Alabama. Instead of hating the idea of moving to another state and living on campus, he is actually excited in the change that is about to come. His parents through him a goodbye party before he leaves the next day. Only no one comes to say goodbye to him. This doesn’t bother Miles, he is just ready to leave for his new school.

She said Roger respected him, that men and boys are like packs of wild dogs. This giant boy was the alpha male of the school, and you’re the new dog, so he pushed you around to see how tough you are. You punched the alpha dog in the face, they’re now going to respect you. The next morning, he couldn’t get a ride to school so his dad’s best friend, Eugene, drove him on his new motorcycle. After arriving at school Roger then pay respect to Junior and Eugene and his bike by complementing it. Maybe grandma was right after all. He then walked into class and says hi to Penelope. She doesn’t even remember him. I’ll give half a point to grandma. Then Halloween come around the corner, and Junior goes dressed as a homeless man and ironically enough so does Penelope. Junior learns that Penelope was going trick or treating for change to donate it to homeless people and Junior wants to join. As he was trick or treating on the reservation she gets beat up and some people steal his money. Penelope says shell put his name on the money anyway. We then learn that Junior is above averagely smarter than most people in his school. Unfortunately, the teachers at Reardan refuse to admit that, and give credit to other children, like Gordy, instead of Junior. When Junior gets home he finds out that his sister ran away to get married. With a guy she just met at the casino. The next day at school Junior walks up to Gordy and asks to be friends. Gordy then assures Junior that he is not a homosexual. Soon after their conversation that day they became friends. Well not quite friends but Gordy helps Junior study and teaches him about book

Mrs. Rodriguez introduced herself and asked the students to share something about themselves with the class. Why must students be faced with the challenging task of talking in front of others on the first day? Isn’t the first day in a new school challenging enough? Quietly, almost mouse like, one girl said her name was Alana and she was new in town. Suddenly the fear went away. Knowing other students were just as nervous made it easier for Emily to share stories about the days spent at the beach, and the jellyfish swarming around swimmers looking for their next

The story follows Miles Halter as he journey through his first year at Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama. From the start, it's obvious that Miles isn’t the average junior in high school. He has a fascination with peoples’ last words before death and is obsessed with studying. Then, he was welcomed into the adventure-filled lives of his roommate "the Colonel," Takumi and the utterly fascinating Alaska Young.

The book starts out in Florida at the home of Miles Halter. We subsequently discover that he wants to attend a boarding school called Culver Creek in New Hope, Alabama. After he gets there most of the significant events take place in the dorms, the gym, the smoking hole and the barn at the school. The time is in the present; as the teenagers journey through their high school years.