Summer Reading Entry 1

   

     In Looking for Alaska the major characters are Miles, Alaska and the Colonel. The book is based off of Miles’ life and the story revolves around his actions more than the other main characters. Miles isn’t very outgoing in nature and is sort of an outcast. He’s never found a place where he belongs socially and seems insecure with himself. That is, until he meets the Colonel and Alaska at his new school. They’re almost completely different from Miles personality wise. They’re very headstrong and outgoing. They seem to get into a lot of mischief (which Miles was advised not to get into). But considering the Colonel is his roommate and is his only friend he decides to go outside of his comfort zone and befriend the Colonel, who is friends with Alaska who is the prettiest girl Miles thinks he has ever seen. The setting of the book takes place at a boarding school called Culver Creek that Miles decides he wants to attend thinking it might solve some of his issues of no social life and his dad attended the school so he might make his parents proud in the process. Although the school isn’t all he dreamed it would be considering it’s a hot school in Alabama with no air conditioning and drab dorm rooms, it will have to do. I predict that by the end of the book Alaska will like miles the way Miles likes her and that the Colonel will resolve his issues with the bullies at the school.