Looking for Alaska, Entry 2

The main reason Miles wants to go to Culver Creek Preparatory School is so he can find his "Great Perhaps". Francois Rebelais was a poet that Miles liked. Miles is obsessed with last words and what this poet wrote really clicked with Miles. His last words were, "I go to seek a Great Perhaps. That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps." Along the way, Miles makes new friends and enemies and discovers himself. Not only does Miles want his Great Perhaps, he also wants Alaska, this beautiful girl he has a crush on and wants to fall in love with her.

Alaska Young desires to spend most of her time drinking and smoking, and pulling pranks on the rich kids of the boarding school. She wants to be with her friends and Miles.

Some themes that are starting to appear in Looking for Alaska is, heartbreak and love, depression or guilt, and how someones life can effect you in so many ways.

Looking for Alaska has a very weird kind of structure. In Before, the passages act as some kind of countdown to something later that happens in the book. But after the countdown is over and the event has occurred, the book counts up to the end of the story which has a clear climax but is also suspenseful.