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What Is Pudge's Purpose In Looking For Alaska
Experiencing Looking for Alaska In many teen novels there are two people who, through trial and trouble, fall in love and live happily ever after. In the novel, Looking for Alaska, John Green takes that plot line flips it upside down. Miles Halters, who they call “Pudge”, is leaving his home in Florida to attend Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama. While at Culver Creek, he meets his new roommate Chip, who they called “the Colonel” and his friends Takumi and Alaska. The instant Pudge sees Alaska Young he is intrigued. Alaska Young is a teenager with a troubled past. She is mysterious and always keeping secrets. Throughout the book Alaska and Pudge spend numerous times together out on the field talking or with their friends plotting

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