Looking for Alaska is John Green's first novel, published in March 2005 by Dutton Juvenile. Based on his time at Indian Springs School, Green wrote the novel as a result of his desire to create meaningful young adult fiction. The characters and events of the plot are grounded in Green's life, while the story itself is fictional. Looking for Alaska follows the novel's main character and narrator Miles Halter, or "Pudge," to boarding school where he goes to seek the "Great Perhaps," the famous last words of François Rabelais. Throughout the first half of the novel, Miles and his friends Chip "The Colonel" Martin, Alaska Young, and Takumi Hikohito grow very close and the section culminates in Alaska's death. In the second half of the novel, Miles and his friends work to discover the missing details of the night Alaska died.
About Looking for Alaska
Based on a novel of the same name by John Green, the series centers on a new student at a boarding school who falls in love with a charming female student.
Achievement of Looking for Alaska
Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage created the show. It was finalized as an eight-episode limited series after a film adaptation was repeatedly delayed.
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Latest information about Looking for Alaska updated on July 28 2021.
