They make a deal: if Miles figures out what the labyrinth is then Alaska will get him laid. After they joke about Alaska having a boyfriend and Pudge being single. How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!' Miles asks her what the labyrinth is and she tells him that's the mystery. Alaska tells Pudge about Simon Bolivar's last words, which were 'Damn it. Besides Alaska, the Colonel also introduces him to Takumi, a student of Japanese descent.

Alaska is described as an attractive yet emotionally unstable girl. Miles is later introduced to the Colonel’s friend, Alaska Young. The Colonel soon provides Miles with his very own nickname: 'Pudge,' ironic as Miles is tall and slender. Soon after arriving at Culver Creek, Miles meets his roommate, Chip 'The Colonel' Martin. Miles is fond of reading biographies, and particularly of memorizing the subjects' last words. He uses Francois Rabelais’s last words-'I go to seek a Great Perhaps'-as his argument for choosing boarding school at such a late age. Looking for Alaska opens as the narrator, Miles Halter, leaves his home in Florida to attend Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama for his junior year. For Miles, nothing can ever be the same again. Gorgeous, clever and undoubtedly screwed-up, Alaska draws Miles into her reckless world and irrevocably steals his heart. Miles Halter's whole life has been one big non-event, until he meet Alaska Young. The characters and events of the plot are grounded in Green's life, while the story itself is fictional. The novel is based on his time at Indian Springs School, where Green wrote the novel as a result of his desire to create meaningful young adult fiction. Looking for Alaska is John Green's first novel, published in March 2005 by Dutton Juvenile.

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