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The main character of Looking for Alaska is a 16-year-old boy named Miles, nicknamed "Pudge" by his roommate at Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama. Originally from Florida, Pudge was a theater and english geek nobody at his high school. In search of the Great Perhaps, Pudge transfers to the same boarding school his father attended to finish out his high school years. He's your pretty typical teenage, geeky...
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Feb 12, 2012 08:46PM
...white boy. Straight-laced and looking for adventure, Pudge falls in with a crowd of "bad kids" and is pulled into the questionable activities of this group. Something unique about Miles is that he really has a thing for people's last words, having many memorized along with a brief history of those who said them. Towards the beginning of the book, when Pudge is talking to his roommate "The Colonel", I find this quote to sum up Pudge pretty well: "I wore my shorts just below my hips, which I thought was cool. Finally I said, 'Yeah, I went to public school. But I wasn't hot s*** there, Chip. I was regular s***,'" (Location 221 of 3601, 6%).
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