Miles Halter In Looking For Alaska Young

Throughout the novel, Looking for Alaska, the protagonist, Miles Halter, has been on the search to understand Alaska Young. Miles has been intrigued by Alaska since the very first moment they met. Alaska is like no other girl that he has met before and that interests him beyond words. Miles spends the all time he has with Alaska trying to understand her. Trying to understand why she is fun and flirty one moment and the next she is ice cold. Miles never really understood Alaska.

Upon Miles search to figure out what makes Alaska, Alaska, he does in fact learn a few things. In the first few pages in the novel- when Miles first met Alaska- Alaska begins to speak about her favorite line out of a book, stating ,”How will I ever get out of the labyrinth!”

When Miles first found out he blamed himself. He blamed himself for not trying to stop her, for not saying she was too drunk or that she was too upset. Miles just went along with what she told him to do. He was blinded by her saying, “to be continued,” not knowing that after he let her go that would be the last time. He tried to understand why she was so frantic that night. When out of nowhere she busted in the room crying, shouting that she needed get out. Miles and The Colonel went on a long search trying to figure out as much about her death as possible, their last chance to finally understand her. Initially, they didn’t find much. They found that her car didn’t swerve when it hit the police car and that she had flowers in her car. This information didn’t do them good to begin with but then when they searched her room, Miles found her favorite book and skipped to her favorite line and scribbled in the margin Alaska had written “straight and fast” referring to how to get out of the labyrinth. Straight and fast like how she ran into the police car, Later upon investigation they realized that Alaska had missed her mother’s birthday because she was so drunk, they all knew that she already blamed herself for her mother’s death. They came to the conclusion that she was on her way to her mother’s grave to give her the flowers, but they still didn’t know exactly why she