Looking For Alaska Chapter Summary

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Looking for Alaska
John Green
Published in 2005
268 pages

Chapter one
In this chapter John Green introduces the main character, Miles cavalry. Miles lives in Florida and is leaving his school to attend Culver Creek Boarding School in Alabama. When he is asked why he says, ‘To seek a greater perhaps’, the last words of the poet Francois Rabelais. One of Miles hobbies is to know peoples last words. His going away party was pathetic, with no one showing up apart from two people, he didn’t mind though. Miles was unpopular and had a boring life at his old school and is hoping that moving schools will find him a better life with new adventures.

This chapter is good as it describes Miles and his personality very well, and the …show more content…

Miles is having a shower when, as he steps out his roommate comes in. His roommate is the opposite to him, very short and well-built. He introduces himself as Chip Martin, but later on tells Miles to call him Colonel. Colonel is not one of the popular kids at school because he didn’t used to go to a privet school, but he doesn’t care. Miles and Colonel start talking and getting along really well. Colonel ends up making a nickname for Miles as well, calling him the Pludge, because he is skinny and tall.

This chapter is good as John Green describes what is going on in Miles’s head, when he meets Colonel for the first time. You can tell that Already Colonel is the closest thing Miles has to a friend, through the way john green portrays his thoughts and use of words. Colonel is not a shy character; he is quite different to Miles as he has different hobbies …show more content…

Alaska and Colonel have been good friends ever since he arrived in third grade. Alaska is portrayed as a confident and talkative person. when Miles meets her for the first time he describes her in is head as ‘The hottest girls in all of human history.’. Whilst Miles is talking to Alaska on the swings at night, he gets to know Alaska a little bit more and the things that her and Colonel have done together since they met. He then realizes that he might have mixed with what his mom calls “The wrong crowd”, but Miles didn’t care, he is looking for a little adventure.

I really like this chapter as you get to know the background of the characters a lot better. You also see a side to Alaska which wasn’t shown before, instead of being talkative and loud she was still talkative but in a quitter and more serious manner. She also spoke her heart more so you could tell what she was really thinking. This chapter I think is the begging of all the new experience and adventures that john will have.

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