In the book, Looking for Alaska, by John Green, a boy, Miles (a.k.a. Pudge), is going to a private school in search of his Great Perhaps. In the process, he meets two characters, Alaska and Chip (a.k.a. The Colonel). The three students all get into mischief right away, by starting pranks, smoking and drinking and avoiding the Eagle, a teacher who will bust anyone for anything. Miles, or Pudge, is a scrawny, tall character that remembers people’s last words. He goes to Culver Creek his junior year of highschool. On the first day he meets the Colonel, who later introduces him to Alaska. In his time at Culver Creek (a quarter), he had been tied up and thrown in the lake, caught smoking by the eagle and has his first sexual interactions. He contributes to the group when they decided to do their epic prank. Takumi and Pudge run through the woods lighting firecrackers as they go, crating a time gap for Alaska and the Colonel to hack the school grading system. He transforms when he goes to the school, because he got addicted to smoking, drinking and fell in with a more-or-less bad crowd. …show more content…
He has been at Culver Creek since his freshman year and will act as a guide for Pudge, even though he said he wouldn’t. On the first day, he meets Pudge and takes him to Alaska’s room to buy cigarettes. The Colonel sticks up for Pudge and decides to do a prank on the Weekday Warriors because when the threw Pudge in the lake, the tied him up so he couldn’t swim. Alaska and the Colonel hack the grading system and send out false report cards to the Weekday Warriors parents and put a blue hair dye in their hair products. The Colonel also invites Alaska and Pudge to his home over break which was very small, but he wasn’t embarrassed about it. He loves his mom and it was obvious to
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
Miles Halter: Miles is the main character of the story. Miles is a teenage boy who is from Florida, where he grew up and attended high school. He decides to go to a boarding school in Alabama: Culver Creek. Miles was not popular or social in Florida. He is actually a character who is really shy and insecure about himself.
BEFORE: Miles, a young boy from Florida, goes to culver Creek boarding school seeking the"Great Perhaps". When he arrives he meets his roommate chip Martin who they call The Colonel. He also meets a boys named Takumi, who is from Japan. Then he meets the mysterious, gorgeous, smart, sexy, and mischievous Alaska Young. The three introduce miles to campus. They make havoc by smoking cigarettes, drinking all night, and pulling pranks. They have to avoid the Eagle when doing so because they don't want to get brought before the jury and punished.
Miles moves to Culver Creek and meets his new roommate, Chip known as ‘The Colonel’ Martin. Lster after being introduced, the Colonel gives Miles a nickname ‘Pudge’, which confused Miles because he was so vaunt. Shortly after being friends the Colonel, he
The main character in Looking For Alaska was a skinny boy named Miles. He was later given the nickname Pudge due to his physical appearance. He found a passion of learning and memorizing people's last
Eventually though, The Colonel gets bored playing detective, and he soon stops trying to help. Pudge, however, keeps on with the investigation, perhaps bordering on the brink of insanity with his need to fully understand Alaska. He feels as though it’s his fault that he didn’t understand what was happening sooner, and that if he figures out what pushed her to this point it will make up for his ignorance. To really prove the kind of person that Pudge became after Alaska’s death, I am going to include the last portion of the novel. It is an essay written by Pudge for his religious studies course. The student could pick any question that they wanted, and they attempted to dissect it and come up with a theological answer. I feel that even though it’s the last part of the novel, it’s where everything really comes together emotionally.
Do you like incomplete love stories? Looking For Alaska by John Green, is the perfect book for you. This book starts off with a boy named Miles who leaves his hometown of Florida and goes to a boarding school named Culver Creek in Alabama. Once arriving at Culver Creek he befriends his roommate Chip Martin whom Miles nicknames “Colonel.” Colonel then introduces Miles to his friends Alaska Young, and Takumi Hikokito. Miles also a girlfriend for a but in the story, her name is Lara Buterskaya. This book includes love, humor, romance and a major climax which flips the plot in a negative direction but then builds up back to normal. Looking For Alaska is a perfect book for someone that loves intense action in their books.
board, I feel that “Looking For Alaska” by John Green should be admitted to the new english curriculum. I feel this way because the novel mentions major common events and themes that young adults are faced with on a daily basis. These themes include friendship, religion, and death. Friendship is widespread throughout this novel. This theme is most evident in the beginning; when Miles Halter (a.k.a. Pudge) comes to Culver Creek Preparatory School. He meets essential characters like Chip Martin (The Colonel), Alaska Young, and Takumi Hirohito. They help shape him into the mature character he is by the end of the novel. Along with other major influences. Another
While many may think Looking For Alaska is about someone’s journey to get to the state of Alaska, John Green uses the title in his novel to display Miles Halter’s journey to seek his “Great Perhaps”. Miles (Pudge) Halter moves from Florida to Culver Creek Boarding School in Alabama, where he meets the stunning and fascinating Alaska Young. From then on, his life is never the same, as he goes on many adventures with Alaska, the Colonel, Takumi, and Lara. But after Alaska gets drunk and storms out of the school, ending up in a fatal car accident, Pudge and his friends try to discover why she had driven out of school that night.
Looking for Alaska was published 2005 and written by young adult author John Green. The novel is about the misadventures of Miles Halter, the unstable Alaska Young and her group of rebellious friends – including Takumi, Chip Martin, AKA the Colonel and Lara. He meets the group after deciding to attend Culver Creek, a boarding school in Alabama to seek a ‘Great Perhaps’. The book is narrated by Miles and eventually count downs to the Alaska’s untimely demise in an alcohol-induced car accident. After Alaska’s death they conduct their own investigation and discover the meanings of friendship and existence along the way.
The book starts out as Miles declares that he is going to attend Culver Creek Boarding School, craving the “Great Perhaps” that is talked about by one of his favorite poets. When he gets to the school, his roommate immediately gives him the nickname “Pudge” as an ironic joke because Miles is very skinny and scrawny.
Time passes and Miles continues his involvement in shenanigans and obsessing about Alaska. He stays on campus for Thanksgiving to try to get with her, but all he gets for his trouble is a sense of homesickness and confusion. Miles, the Colonel, Takumi, Alaska, and Lara pull an epic prank on both the Eagle and the Weekday Warriors that involves blue hair dye and fake progress reports, and during their hideout, all the friends find out that Alaska's mom died of an aneurysm right in front of Alaska when Alaska was eight… which explains a lot about
The book Looking for Alaska is by John Green and it follows a boy named Miles “Pudge” Halter and his time in Culver Creek Boarding School. Pudge goes to this boarding school because all of his past family members have. At the boarding school he meets a young, charismatic, funny, attractive, clever, screwed up, and a crazy girl named Alaska Young. They go on multiple adventures together. Slowly he falls in love with her, even though she has a boyfriend. But one night she leaves in hysteria even though she is drunk and Pudge tells her not to. The next morning Pudge and his friends find out Alaska is dead. Pudge along with his friend Chip “Colonel” try to find out what happened to Alaska and why she left in such a hysteria. Through this journey Pudge and his friends decide to dedicate an end of the year prank to Alaska as she wanted to do it.
Miles is a teenage boy who is the main character of this story.Miles is from Florida, where he was raised and has attended high school. He decided to go to a boarding school in Alabama. Miles is the most important character in terms of developing the story Miles, in Florida, was definitely not the popular type, or social in any way. And from all the characters in the book “looking for Alaska” I think Miles would be the only one that will do the best in Mr Atkins class.
In the book “Looking for Alaska” there are several attractive characters, but only three of them were the main Miles, Colonel, and Alaska. These characters were the best friends; each one of them had his/her own personality in the book. Miles was the new student in the school who was quite and lonely until he met his new friends and starts smoking and does other stuff that he did not use to do before. The colonel was a poor guy who tried to find his way to succeed by getting his mother proud of him and get her a house. Last character is Alaska; she is the one with a lot of pass mistakes and regrets. In the book we got a bit of background information about these characters. For example Miles was the guy with no friend in his old high school and that his worst day was when someone peed on his P.E pants that his teacher made him wear.