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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