Looking For Alaska Character Analysis
The Climax: Looking for Alaska
The climax of a story is when all of the events come to a breaking point. It greatly affects the characters and story. For example, the novel Looking for Alaska by John Green illustrates Miles Walter’s journey of seeking the “Great Perhaps” and escaping the “labyrinth.” In the story, Miles Walter experiences various daring experiences as he makes new friends and moves to a boarding school. He reaches a peak in his life and isn’t looking back, however, all of the fun and love comes crashing down one drunken night. That night immensely changes both Miles Walter and the story.
Miles Walter, later renamed Pudge by the Colonel, has always been an outlier, in a different world, compared to his normal high school classmates. Therefore, he decides to go to the boarding school, Culver Creek, to find his identity and the Great Perhaps. On his first night there, Pudge is tied up and thrown into a river by the Weekday Warriors, a group of rich students who attend the school. At the school, he meets bright and colorful people like the Colonel and …show more content…
Afterward, when they are drunk, Alaska tells the others about her mother’s death when she was a little girl and her guilt for not calling 911 even though she did not understand what was happening. To celebrate their success, they decide to drink every night. During the last night, Pudge and Alaska kiss and almost have sex, but Alaska is too tired to continue. In the middle of the night, she receives a call that makes her go crazy and hysterical. In a frenzy, Alaska makes Pudge and the Colonel help her get off campus without telling them the reason. The next morning, the two hungover boys find out that Alaska was in a car accident and killed instantly. In an attempt to clear their conscious, Pudge and the Colonel try to discover the true meaning of what had happened that fateful
The climax of a story is when all of the events come to a breaking point. It greatly affects the characters and story. For example, the novel Looking for Alaska by John Green illustrates Miles Walter’s journey of seeking the “Great Perhaps” and escaping the “labyrinth.” In the story, Miles Walter experiences various daring experiences as he makes new friends and moves to a boarding school. He reaches a peak in his life and isn’t looking back, however, all of the fun and love comes crashing down one drunken night. That night immensely changes both Miles Walter and the story.
Miles Walter, later renamed Pudge by the Colonel, has always been an outlier, in a different world, compared to his normal high school classmates. Therefore, he decides to go to the boarding school, Culver Creek, to find his identity and the Great Perhaps. On his first night there, Pudge is tied up and thrown into a river by the Weekday Warriors, a group of rich students who attend the school. At the school, he meets bright and colorful people like the Colonel and …show more content…
Afterward, when they are drunk, Alaska tells the others about her mother’s death when she was a little girl and her guilt for not calling 911 even though she did not understand what was happening. To celebrate their success, they decide to drink every night. During the last night, Pudge and Alaska kiss and almost have sex, but Alaska is too tired to continue. In the middle of the night, she receives a call that makes her go crazy and hysterical. In a frenzy, Alaska makes Pudge and the Colonel help her get off campus without telling them the reason. The next morning, the two hungover boys find out that Alaska was in a car accident and killed instantly. In an attempt to clear their conscious, Pudge and the Colonel try to discover the true meaning of what had happened that fateful