Miles Halter, aka Pudge,
has the unique hobby of reading about people’s last words. It is the last words
of poet Francois Rabelais, “I go to seek a Great Perhaps” that inspires Miles
to change his life course. He drops his nonexistent high school life in Florida
and moves to Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama. Here he begins his
journey of life with friends the Colonel, Takumi, Laura and Alaska Young.
Alaska Young is a force, and she is the driving force of the group’s ups and
downs. Miles is mesmerized by Alaska from the first time he laid eyes on her.
He knew he never had a chance with her, but he fell for her anyway. She was
beautiful, independent and full of life. Miles, the Colonel and Alaska bond
together as the working class misfit kids in a school of affluent students and
gain respect by pulling off epic pranks. The cruel reality of life strikes when
Alaska dies in a car accident, and her friends she left behind are left tying
to find ways to carry on after her death. Green takes the reader on a journey
of laughter, pranks, friendship love and heartbreak. The smart and witty novel
challenges the reader to infer Alaska’s motives and decisions concerning her accident
as well as ponder one’s own ideals and beliefs in reference to religion. In
reading Looking for Alaska, teenagers would connect to the emotional turmoil of
love and coping with the loss of a loved one.
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