Brief Summary Of The Book 'Looking For Alaska'

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What even is love? Love is a very complicated and difficult to understand thing. Love gives you raging levels of dopamine and serotonin an you just overall feel happy and excited. Love, whether platonic or romantic, makes you do irrational things that you wouldn’t normally do. In the book “Looking for Alaska”, Miles starts smoking in order to look cool with his tobacco addicted friends, Alaska and the Colonel. These kids are juniors in highschool. Miles probably would’ve never started smoking if it wasn’t for them. He wanted to look cool and fit in with his friends. Smoking is a really drastic, crazy thing that most teens wouldn’t do without peer pressure. Miles always talked about how much he loved his friends and how he developed a crush

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