Research Paper For Alaska

The book is about a boy named Miles also called “Pudge” Halter who is a new student at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Birmingham, Alabama. Because he was so called “unpopular” at his old school, he is nervous about making and keeping new friends, but he is soon friends with his roommate named Chip who is called “the Colonel” who introduces Miles to his friends, named Takumi Hikohito, Lara Buterskaya, and the beautiful, mysterious Alaska Young. The night before school begins, Miles is kidnapped from his bed in the middle of the night and thrown into the school’s lake. He survives and his new friend the Colonel promises revenge in the form of pranks against their rivals, the Weekday Warriors. Early on in the semester Pudge is kicked out of his World Religion class for daydreaming. As time passes, Pudge grows closer to his new friends. Alaska the love interest tutors Pudge in pre-calculus but the group caught smoking by the dean, Mr. Starnes (known as the Eagle). An important element to the …show more content…
Pudge is dared to kiss Alaska. Pudge and Alaska fall asleep in her room. Alaska awakens in the middle of the night to answer a ringing phone in the hallway. She returns and asks Pudge and the Colonel to set off fireworks to distract the Eagle while she drives off campus.
The following morning, it is revealed that Alaska died in a car accident. Pudge and the Colonel stop talking to Takumi and Lara while they sort through their own emotions. With so many unanswered questions surrounding her death, Pudge and the Colonel begin an investigation. After 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.
In the end, Pudge is at peace with Alaska's death, knowing that he will never fully understand her, but that her memory will continue in the people she