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Miles Pudge Halter Character Analysis

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Many characters change throughout the book. Everything changed for the main character, Miles “Pudge” Halter, when he left his boring life at his public school in Florida, where he was awkward, unsocial, and a nobody, to join Culver Creak Boarding School in Alabama for his junior year. His new roommate Chip “Colonel” Martin introduces him to his group of friends consisting of Alaska Young, and Takumi Hikohito. They go on many adventures and perform many pranks together. Throughout the story, he has an obsession with famous peoples’ last words, which his friends discover right away. At the beginning of the book, he is shy, dreary, and just goes with the flow. But as he gets more comfortable with his new friends, he tries things he has never

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