But all that stuff is so interdependent. That was all meant to indicate how incompletely he sees Alaska, something she mentions to him again and again. Yeah, he starts to affect the action in the second half of the novel, but he is very conscious of this passivity. It was important to me when writing the story that Pudge not be blameless. The question for me becomes whether you can find a way to live with yourself, whether forgiveness is still available to you even though the person you need to forgive you is gone.
Alaska can never reconcile that question for herself with regards to her own mother. Pudge does eventually find an answer that brings him comfort, but along the way he has to become much more proactive about his life and his choices. Oh, I think Miles is probably just lying to his father.
You know, as one does. But yeah, Miles is weak-willed. He engages in self-destructive behavior and fails to recognize the seriousness of the self-destructive behavior around him. He gives money to tobacco companies, which do not deserve his money.
And he drinks horrible wine when he could afford to drink better wine, which is one of the worst sins of all. But let me submit to you that we are all weak-willed, that we all participate in destructive systems, that we all fail to use our opportunities as fully as we might, and that the whole business of being a reader and also being a person is empathizing with the flawed and uncertain people we meet in books and in life.
Miles is not simply heroic, but neither is your friend. Neither is anyone. And for the record, he does make some changes.
Miles would rather be reading biographies than socializing with others. Miles has a fascination with last words. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.
Miles is extremely scrawny and lacks muscle, and was exactly six feet tall. Miles is not a very judgmental person. When he first meets Alaska, and she is telling the Colonel a story about a summer experience, Miles is captivated by her right away.
Miles is a somewhat vulnerable character who often finds himself in hard situations because he is very confused and very insecure about himself.
This is why he falls so easily for Alaska after she gives him the slightest bit of attention, because he is insecure and shy, and was not used to this type of attention back when he was in Florida. Miles is a very intellectual person who can analyze every situation and every single detail in order to truly understand it and the reasoning behind it.
The Colonel and him get along very well, because the Colonel is a leader and is always sure of what he wants, which is the exact opposite of Miles. This goes to show that opposites attract, and they end up being extremely good friends. Miles is a follower, and not a leader. He is smart in his words but does not excel with his actions. The Colonel is a very blunt and straight forward character. He is important to the story because he provides stability for Miles, and is always around to help and come up with ideas.
The Colonel is a short, muscular guy with brown hair. He has a deep voice, and he talks a lot. He is a genius, and he skipped a few grades.
He takes advanced classes and excels at almost every subject. The Colonel comes from a poor background, and is at Culver Creek on a scholarship.
His mom lives in a trailer park. His dad left when he was younger, and used to cheat and beat his mom. The Colonel is very protective of his mother and he states that the best day of his life would be the day he can offer a house to his mom and get her out of the poor neighborhood.
The Colonel has an incredible memory, and when he first meets Miles, he shows off his talent. The Colonel knows every country by heart, and can name all of them. The Colonel is viewed as a leader by his friends, Alaska, Miles and Takumi. They listen to him as if he has some sort of authority figure.
When a plank is being organized, the Colonel is the one who is giving out orders and who makes sure everything goes as planned. He is a very sarcastic and humorous person, who is always trying to make sense out of every situations presented to him.
The Colonel is a regular smoker, and he definitely drinks too much. B oarding schools are strange places, little fiefdoms of byzantine social politics and spiking teen hormones. In , the book was a revelation for its clear-eyed depiction of teen angst and love, and a generation of readers grew up smitten with the inscrutable Alaska, infatuated Miles and feisty Chip.
Many , including Green himself , have wrestled with the way in which he deals with this trope in his books. Some of these themes, particularly sexuality and privilege, are certainly present in the book, but not with the kind of intention brought to them by executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who were also behind The O.
Green also serves as an executive producer on the series. The story is the same, but the emotional beats it hits — self-discovery, betrayal, grief — are thrown into sharper relief by the more nuanced telling. But where he fixates on feelings, Schwartz and Savage — also experts in teen drama — like to see the big, dramatic picture. The series is shot with a dreamy reverence for the sepia-toned magic of boarding school in a humid early autumn, when Miles arrives as a new student to find adventure after a lackluster high school experience in his native Florida.
Takumi is really good at keeping secrets. And at investigating stuff. Not only does he figure out that it was Alaska who ratted out Marya before Alaska tells him 67before.
This all leads us up to Takumi's big reveal at the end of the novel, when he admits to Miles and the Colonel that he, too, is responsible for Alaska's death:.
For a long time, I was mad at you. The way you cut me out of everything hurt me, and so I kept what I knew to myself. But then even after I wasn't mad anymore, I still didn't say anything, and I don't even really know why […] I had this secret.
Just like Miles and the Colonel, Takumi saw Alaska the night of her death and did nothing to stop her from driving away. So he shares the culpability that Miles and the Colonel do, though he deals with it mostly off-screen.
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