In the book Looking For Alaska by John Green we see a boy named Miles go searching for the “Great Perhaps”. Miles “Pudge” Halter is obsessed with last words. He enjoys reading biographies of people and memorizing the last thing they are documented to have said. He ends up going to a very prestigious boarding school where he can go seek the adventure he is looking for. Through this journey he makes new friends, gets into some trouble and learns many lessons about love and life that his boring home life wouldn’t have taught him otherwise. Pudge lives with his parents in Florida and isn’t seen as the “cool kid”. He is socially awkward and honestly doesn’t have friends. He is invited to go to Culver Creek Boarding School in Alabama and excitedly accepts. He is forced, at the beginning of the book, to have a going away party by him mom. “I was more or less forced to invite my “school friends”. . . I knew they wouldn’t come”. (Green 3) The disaster of a going away party pushes Pudge to actually make friends at Culver Creek and gets him excited to go out and seek his “Great perhaps”. …show more content…
He becomes close friends with the Colonel as well as Takumi and Alaska Young, who he is completely enamored with. “ But I barely heard him because the hottest girl in all of human history was standing before me in cutoff jeans and a peach tank top.” (Green 14) While this group wouldn’t have been the people his parents would’ve wanted him hanging around with he becomes attached and gets into some trouble. He falls for Alaska and they both not only seek the “Great Perhaps” but also try and find out what Simon Bolivar meant with his last words “How will I ever get out of this