Looking for Alaska by John Green: Through the Eyes of Miles Halter

Looking for Alaska essay "looking for Alaska" by john green is a novel written through the eyes of a teenage boy, Miles Halter. Miles doesn't have any "real" friends and is fasinated by last words. He moves to a borading school in alabama to escape his boaring life at home. He goes to seek what the poet Francois Rabelais called "the great perharps". At Culver creek prepary school he meets the buetiful and mysteroius Alaska Young who constantly thinks about the question asked by Simon Bolivar "how do we get out of this labyrinth?" Miles later askes Alaksa what the labythrinth is and she replies "That’s the mystery, isn’t it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape- the world or the end of it?" The book is divided into two sections: before and after. Tension builds up throughout the book to find out what the turning point is. Finally Alaska finds out the answer to her question. The answer was how she died- straight and fast. Alaskas death was devasting for Miles and also the reader. Miles tries and fails to find out if her death was an accident or did she do it on purpose.