Miles “Pudge” Halter is the new student at culver creek preparatory school in Birmingham, Alabama. Being the unpopular kid at his old school he is taken back at the curiosity of his new roommate chip “the colonel” who is a so called prodigy as he is able to memorize every country and proving in the world in alphabetical order. Pudge is able to connect with the cornels friends including the mysterious Alaska young who has a knack of getting in trouble. Pudge is on a journey to find a great perhaps, as he was raised on the belief that this great perhaps exists somewhere. Pudge and Alaska share a connection as they are both looking for something they have yet to find alaska thrives to find the meaning behind the labyrinth. She she tells pudge how “You spend your whole…show more content… Furthermore after Alaska deaths he must find his own way as before alaska transformed the way he looks at the world. This defines how pudge is a character in his own, as before Alaska he was unpopular, with a constant search for a great perhaps they may have never existed without Alaska. Pudge is a follower, he is so strongly influenced by the legacy of Alaska that he become like her in every way without knowing it. Through his friendship with the colonel and the teaching of his religion class professor dr Dr. Hyde he realizes maybe alaska's death was a sign for a new beginning, but as the questions from the learning it may have more to do with her search then his own. His investigation ends with prank they call the alaska memorial prank, pudge starts to realize that maybe alaska's death did in fact teach him something, i thought his the meaning of the great perhaps “ So [he] walked back to [his] room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, [he] was drizzle and [alaska] was a hurricane.” (pudge,88). Moreover this hurricane showed pudge the meaning of friendship, love and even the great
