Miles Halter

Miles Halter was a young student on a new journey with the start of his new school. Of a social outcast and wishes he could be anywhere then where he is. Miles was just starting to attend the culver creek boarding school. Plunging into the milieu of a boarding school where he intends to make good grades and good friends. Amazingly, he accomplishes both, as well as learning about life. The subject is an introverted young man and a lot of the story is taken up with his feelings and those of is new friends It grabs you and makes you want to read another page before turning off the light. As with many coming of age novels, this one is asking what is the meaning of life, how should one approach it, what can we expect. Miles as the neophyte here …show more content…
Miles, who is later nicknamed Pudge, the Colonel, Alaska and a couple other friends trudge their way through the school year, facing hard classes, old teachers, the rich kids (Weekday Warriors) and a crazy headmaster with the help of a couple bottles of strawberry wine and boxes upon boxes of cigarettes. As Pudge gets to know Alaska better he realizes that she is an amazing, complex, crazy but very screwed-up mind. He begins to understand the level of suffering she is in and realizing his own, all well falling deeply in love with her. Alaska’s description of the “labyrinth” alone will leave you questioning your entire life. John Green’s descriptions of the characters in the book were so well-thought out and detailed. Pudge is dared to make out with Alaska, fulfilling his dream to be romantic with Alaska. Drunk and exhausted, Pudge and Alaska fall asleep in her room. Alaska awakens in the middle of the night, while Miles is still asleep to answer her phone in the hallway. She returns in an extremely distressed state and begs Pudge and the Colonel to set off additional fireworks to distract the Eagle while she …show more content…
After finding and interviewing a police officer and Alaska's boyfriend who had called her that night, Takumi realizes that Alaska remembered it was the day after her mother's death while she was talking to Jake. Feeling responsible for her mother's death and distraught by the idea of having forgotten the day, Alaska attempted to drive to the gravesite. It remains unclear whether Alaska's death was an accident or a suicide. Pudge resolves his feelings for Alaska in his final essay for Dr. Hyde's class. To show respect for Alaska's love of pranks and hatred of the objectification of the female body, the group decides to execute one last prank at Speaker Day. They invite a stripper pretending to be a professor of adolescent sexuality to speak at Speak Day. In the middle of the speech, Lara signals the speaker to take off his clothes and begin to strip. The Eagle knows it was Pudge and his friends who hired the stripper but finds it to be a fitting way to remember Alaska. In the end, Pudge is at peace with Alaska's death, knowing that he will never fully understand her or if it was ever an accident or not but that her memory will continue in the people she