The characters

     In my book, Looking for Alaska, I am far enough to know what the characters are starting to want. For example, Pudge and Alaska have tension between them to where they are madly in love already, although they barely know each other. Alaska, unfortunately for Pudge, has a boyfriend. So, Pudge and Alaska want each other. Now the Colonel is having troubles with his girlfriend. They are both bad girl/boyfriend material, so they deserve each other, that's the only reason they're together still, so other than that, Colonel is just free. Lives day-by-day. Doesn't really want something. Not yet anyway.
   I would say that the main theme in this book is love. Finding love, losing love, and most importantly looking for love. colonel and Alaska hook him up with some girls, when really Pudge just wants Alaska, hence the title. Now my book is split up into two main parts: Before and After. Then in the Before, it is separated into days: days before the After.  The Before is when Pudge is pulled into Alaska's world and makes him fall in love with her, and After that, nothing is the same.

Looking For Alaska

       I have recently started reading Looking For Alaska, and am on page 60. So far the main characters are Miles, Chip, and Alaska. Miles lived in Florida, but for his junior year, his parents sent him to his father's old boarding school, Culver Creek in Alabama. As he gets set up in his non air-conditioned, flaming hot room, he meets his roommate that's been there since freshman year. Chip, the roommate, says that they all have nicknames. His is colonel, and Miles' is pudge, which is ironic since he is a 6'1 scrawny kid. Down the hall they go and meet up Colonel's friend for some cigarettes, which is when Pudge meets Alaska. 

     The night before the first day of school, the Weekday Warriors, or the rich kids of the Birmingham-area that think are so cool, grab him, duct tape him, and throw him n the lake after they say it's for being friends with Colonel. Pudge gets out and tells Colonel. Apparently they do it to all new comers, but they don't duct tape the people to where they can die. So Colonel "declares war". After a couple weeks go by, Colonel, Pudge, Alaska and some more friends go for a smoke, when The Eagle, one of the vice-principals, catches them and throws them into school court. A court that they hold every semester and make some kids come in as the jury. Alaska and Colonel take the blame, since they were the only ones smoking at the time, and Pudge and the other friend, Takumi, were let off, for no rules against watching people smoke. 

   Now the questions I have are, will Alaska and Colonel get thrown out of Culver Creek in the future for getting caught smoking again, and will Alaska and Pudge date, because they have tension between them, but always turn it away because of Alaska's boyfriend.