![]() He lectures all the time and makes Miles think about religion, philosophy, and life, and Miles loves it. ![]() Miles's favorite class is religious studies, taught by an old man nicknamed… the Old Man. They have to avoid the Eagle-the aptly-named dean of the school-when they're creating mischief so they don't get brought before a peer jury and appropriately punished. The three take Miles (nicknamed Pudge because he's so skinny) under their wing and introduce him to the social order of campus, mischief-making, smoking cigarettes, and drinking. The Colonel grew up in a trailer park, Alaska and her dad don't get along (mystery alert), and Takumi is just kind of there for a while. ![]() Miles meets the Colonel (real name Chip Martin), Takumi, and Alaska Young. The story is split in two parts: before and after. He tells his parents that he's going to seek a Great Perhaps, that there's something more for him.Īnd there is. Miles Halter is tired of his predictable and friendless life (check out the going-away party for him at the beginning of the book), so he decides to attend Culver Creek boarding school in Alabama for his junior year of high school. ![]()
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