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Looking For Alaska Characters

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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

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