Looking for Alaska was published in March of 2005. The novel begins with the protagonist Miles Halter or aka “Pudge”. Miles feels like a loser and feels, as he has never done anything exciting with his life so he goes off to a boarding school to discover a “Great Perhaps”. When he gets there he meets Chip Martin or aka “The Colonel” his roommate and Alaska Young, a wild, unpredictable, and unstable girl that Miles is immediately attracted to. All three become great friends and start a series of pranks on the Weekday Warriors, a bunch of rich kids that also attend the boarding school. They then celebrate their successful pranks by partying every night of the week. On the last night of the “celebrations” Alaska gets a phone call and insists
