Miles was a quiet young man who just completed high school. He loved reading biographies of writers and he had a curiosity about him that wanted to discover what life had to offer him out there. His parents were not keen on the idea of him leaving to go to boarding school. When they …show more content…
He is introduced to a girl, named Alaska and begins to develop feelings for her. Alaska is a troubled girl who has problems as a result of her mother’s death. She drinks and smokes. Miles’s response to all this was, “God, if I get in trouble my parents will kill me.” (Green 17). He was concerned that he might get kicked off of campus, but his friends assured him that they would not find out. As time went on, Miles was better known on campus as Pudge, a nickname his friends put on him. With the new friends that Pudge had made, he began participating in drugs and alcohol with his friends. One evening Pudge, Alaska and some other friends were together drinking and. They asked himPudge if he ever played Truth or Dare?. “Never played it”, he said. (Green 130). Alaska asked him the first question and the result was the two of them making out. Everyone in the room had passed out or fell asleep. Alaska remembered, that yesterday was her mother’s anniversary of her death and she had forgotten to put flowers on her grave. She got in the car and left. She was too drunk to drive. She crashed the car and was