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What Is The Theme Of Friendship In Looking For Alaska
Looking for Alaska, by John Green, is a story about friendship and love. As a new student at Culver Creek (a boarding school), Miles gets a chance to start over and actually get a chance to make friends. When Miles gets to his school for the first time he meets his roommate, Chip, and they become friends. A little after meeting Chip and Miles go to Chips friend Alaska’s room. Miles automatically started to fall for Alaska by her looks. Without even fully getting to know Miles, Alaska starts to gossip about her summer, including all of the personal details that you think she would only tell someone she is close with. Alaska and her group of friends give each other nicknames, so she decided that she would give Miles a nickname. Trying to

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