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Miles Halter From Looking For Alaska

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Miles Halter from John Green's Looking for Alaska is an shy nerd fifteen years old junior in high school, who goes looking for a Great Perhaps away from home at Culver Creek Boarding School in Alabama. Miles wants his Great Perhaps, but never really know what he envisions as his Great Perhaps and whether the boarding school of Culver Creek lives up to his expectations. He is obsessed with the last words of dead people and has enough self-awareness to know that he won't find his Great Perhaps at home in Florida, which leads to him to realize that he is stuck in his own labyrinth. Miles arrives at school and tries to learn the social order, make some good friends, and pass his difficult classes. His acquaintances with his roommate, Chip “The …show more content…

Indeed, Miles sums his tameness and powerlessness in the face of Alaska nicely when he states: "If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane"(88). Miles will never be the force of nature that Alaska was. he just doesn't know how to make a big enough splash, but as he grows into the society that he's entered being the world of the Creek, he becomes a little more confident, a little less like drizzle and a little more like a steady rain. Maybe some of the strength of character in the Colonel and Alaska is rubbing off on him. Finally, Miles and the Colonel give up. He finally finds the courage to talk to Lara after Alaska's death and he plays a role in the greatest prank the Creek has ever done even before the death. Miles apologizes to Lara and Takumi. Miles won't ever lead anyone, but that's because his strengths are internal instead of external like the personality of the Colonel and Alaska. The Old Man also helps Miles's brain keep thinking. The lectures he gives in World Religions class often spark interest Miles has about life, death, and life after. Miles was always kind of a deep guy before Alaska died, but afterward, the topics of World Religions become much more there in his thoughts after her death. Miles is not always a reliable narrator especially when it comes to Alaska. His emotions tend to blur how he sees her and especially after her death eventually …show more content…

He never know how much something meant to him until he lost it forever. To live is to suffer. Life is more than the maze, but the maze is still an important part of life. Pudge realizes that by trying to escape the maze, or by ignoring it, he is setting aside the very experience of navigating the maze, and he is focusing on the end rather than on the events that led him to the end. This is a moment of growth for Pudge, for it is here that he begins to distance. The process of navigating the maze is just as important as the process of escaping it. As Pudge states in his teenage point of view: "When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old" (220).When it comes to the role of suffering it also comes in consideration on how suffering is connected to sense of forever, which is connected to Miles into growing up. Through the act of Looking for Alaska, Miles not only found himself but he also found more interesting ways into making it through his labyrinth. When it came to his labyrinth, he came to

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