Looking for Alaska has several some simple and some complex characters. While in the title Looking for Alaska; Alaska is not even the main character, although she does play a major role in the book. Miles "Pudge" Halter, the main character, appears a simple character although can be seen as complex throughout the book with twists and changes to who he is. Honestly after reading the book I would have been totally for Alaska being the main character because personally I thought Alaska was a way more interesting character (obviously speaking she is way more complex than the other characters). So Pudge is the skinny self-conscious boy who is literally completely opposite to Alaska the outgoing beautiful and open girl. The two characters who are what hold Pudge and Alaska together are Chip "The Colonel" Martin and Takumi. The Colonel was the one to introduce Pudge to Alaska and Alaska introduced Pudge to Takumi. The Colonel and Takumi are pretty easy to understand and the book obviously revolves around Alaska and Pudge. These four are in boarding school together at "Culver Creek High" which is a dormitory school located at a lake, a symbolic and important location for the four characters. The conflict in this story being that Pudge who had no friends at his previous high school wants to make friends at Culver Creek and was accepted by The Colonel. Throughout the book Pudge learns about the other characters and tries to have a better social life than at the previous high school he attended. Comparing this book to other works is difficult because this is one of the first drama books I have read but I can say that this love story relates to other works in that the love they share can not be expressed to each other because Alaska is in a relationship already. In this short video hyper linked below John Green, the author of Looking For Alaska tells the readers how these characters came to be and in general how to book came to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0pz5g5FP0g
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