Miles Halter has always lived a boring and uneventful life, so when his fascination with the last words of poet Francois Rabelais, “I go to seek a great perhaps”, leads him to Culver Creek Boarding School to find his own “great perhaps”, his whole world is flipped upside down the moment that he meets “the gorgeous, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself”. After being kidnapped, thrown into a lake, and going on a date which ended in a mild concussion, Miles begins to realize that this is just the beginning of his adventures at his new school and just the beginning of his relationship with Alaska. Soon enough, Miles starts to develope feelings for her and the more time that he spends with her the deeper his affection for the self-destructive teen grows. Miles is pulled into “the great perhaps” of Alaska Young and there is no going back and absolutely no forgetting.
Me: Thank you for spending some time to
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I’ll do anything that helps to clear the air about my relationship with the school.
Me: For anyone who is not familiar with Miles, he is the main protagonist character in John Green’s Novel Looking For Alaska.
Miles: Yup, thats me.
Me: So Miles, I’ve heard that you have a great interest in the last words of famous writers and poets. What is your favorite last words?
Miles: Well I like a lot of last words, but my favorite last words are from the poet Francois Rabelais, “I go to seek a great perhaps”.
Me: Would you mind explaining why these are your favorite last words?
Miles: Francis waited until he died to find his “great perhaps”. His last words helped me realize that I didn’t want to wait until I die to start looking for my “great perhaps”. I knew that I was never going to find what I was looking for in my uneventful life in Florida. So I decided to transfer to a boarding school, so I could seek my own “great perhaps”.
Me: What did you think of Culver Creek when you first arrived at the