Miles ‘Pudge’ Halter in Looking for Alaska by John Green is looking for his Great Perhaps. While the book doesn’t state it, and Miles himself might not know, but he found it in Alaska Young. She is his Great Perhaps, the biggest thing to have ever happened to him, the reason Miles was meant to leave his public school and go to Culver Creek. Alaska Young began Miles’ life.

On page 5, Miles says, “I was after a Great Perhaps, and they knew as well as I did that I wasn’t going to find it with the likes of Will and Marie,” showing that he wasn’t content with his life back at home, with his family and school and friends. Miles needed something extraordinary.

On page 20, Alaska tells Miles about how the Colonel, “...was smart, but hadn’t done