
The main character is Miles who is a unsocial, lonely, yet very ambitious, skinny 16 year old as when it says " My skinniness always surprised me: My thin arms didn't seem to get much bigger as they moved from wrist to shoulder my chest lacked any hint of either fat or muscle...."(Green 9). That is looking for his "Great Perhaps. The setting begins in hot and humid Florida where Miles lives with his parents. Then following in his dad's footsteps and to start over a new life wanted to transfer to Culver Creek Preparatory School. The place that Miles stayed in was a place with " Six one-story buildings, each with sixteen dorm rooms," that "were arranged in a hexagon around a larger circle of grass" (Green 7-8). So the main conflict is that when Miles begins to hang out with "the Colonel" more he meets the rest of his friends which included a girl named Alaska, as he knew about her longer, the more and more interested he came in her, Miles wanted to know her story and what she was all about. When it says " Alaska sat directly across from me in the circle of desks, but she didn't look at me once the entire class, even though I could notice little but her..." (Green 30). This shows that the more he sees her the more he needs to know about her, and Alaska won't say a word to him, also no one will say one word about her to him. I've so far read just the beginning of the book but i predict sometime when i get more into the book that Miles will find out more about Alaska and maybe something no one else knows about. A connection that i noticed while reading was when Chip "Colonel" says to Miles while sitting by the lake on the beach " Yeah, but he doesn't really go into blitzkrieg mode until classes start," ( Green 17). This connection is to history back to the term meaning "lightning war" by the Germans during World War Two.
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