Looking For Alaska Quotes

Have you ever felt like you don 't know what your purpose is in life? Like you’re stuck in this world surrounded by people, standing out, but never truly noticed, feeling like the one thing you screwed up has pulled you down with a chain for the rest of your continuing life? In the book, Looking For Alaska, Miles Halter is looking for his place in life. Such as, where he belongs, and what his purpose is. He made a decision to move to a new school, Culver Creek, to start a new year. He quotes “ ...‘I go to seek a Great Perhaps.’ That 's why I’m going. So I don 't have to wait until I die to start seeking the Great Perhaps.” (p5). His idea of a “Great Perhaps” is something better than what he has, a meaning in life, and friendship. But what he

First day of school, he meets his new roommate, Chip, who later introduces him to Alaska, the girl that will later mess up his whole life and world as he once knew it. Alaska is unlike any other girl, she is like one of the boys, She loves to drink and play games. but she has a dark side that no one has seen. Miles states, “I didn 't know whether to trust Alaska, and I 'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability—cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.” (75).But that was only the beginning of what was about to come. With Alaska in his life, Miles’ idea of his great perhaps slowly starts to change. She takes him under her wing and shows him a different part of life that he has never experienced like smoking, drinking, pranking, and loyalty. “‘Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”(44) Alaska says to Miles and his new group of friends. Even though Alaska is very open with him and tells him most things about her, and her life that she thinks people need to know, she is always vague with every subject. Continuously throughout the book Alaska repeats, “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 that

Looking at it from a distance it looked majestic and sweet, “That swan is the spawn of Satan. Never get closer to it than we are now”(16).m Miles was later warned.But looking past the beauty, what was it really? As Miles analyzed it from a greater distance,”it was on the shore in front of us, making a sound that sounded like nothing else in this world, like all the worst parts of a dying rabbit plus all the worst parts of a crying baby, and there was no other way, so we just ran"(107). What was its secret? Why was it there? The more time Miles and Alaska spent with each other the relationship between the two became more clear. Alaska, like the swan was beautiful from a distance, but the closer you got to her, the more in danger you became to be hurt. Miles was quick to fall in love with her, But she always kept a deeper secret. Miles became obsessed with finding answers, ignoring his original idea of a “Great Perhaps.” Over the Thanksgiving break he spent the time with Alaska, trying to figure her out and unlock her secrets. She always said how important friendship was and to never rat someone out. But Why was it ever such a big deal? He later found out, it was because of her, her friend was expelled from the school, and because of her, her mom died right before her