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Looking For Alaska By John Green

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Option C: A piece of literature that I read this year was Looking for Alaska by John Green. Miles Halter is tired of his safe life at home and leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Before he goes to Culver Creek, he is lone and unhappy. When he gets there, his roommate "The Colonel" gives him the nickname "Pudge." The first conflict he faces is that he knows he's in love with Alaska and after the part of which she dies, her death helps him to reach that purpose to find out who he is and the purpose of why he went to Culver Creek. So basically throughout the whole book, it isn't about him looking for the "Great Perhaps." It's about him looking for his self identity, as Pudge in

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