Throughout the book, he seem to be looking for specifically his “great perhaps”. For instance, Alaska mentions to Miles, “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining the future that keeps going, but you going, but never do it. You just use the future to escape the present” (Green 54). This quote tells us how we should appreciate the present and how important it is to focus on the present. However, Miles is incapable of realizing how his “great perhaps” is close at hand in the
Throughout the book, he seem to be looking for specifically his “great perhaps”. For instance, Alaska mentions to Miles, “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining the future that keeps going, but you going, but never do it. You just use the future to escape the present” (Green 54). This quote tells us how we should appreciate the present and how important it is to focus on the present. However, Miles is incapable of realizing how his “great perhaps” is close at hand in the