Chip teaches Miles about the social structure of the school. Chip introduces Miles to his friend Alaska, and Miles is quickly enamored by her. Chip and Miles discover that this action was taken in retaliation for Chip supposedly ratting out their friends—a couple named Marya and Paul—and getting them expelled the previous year. Miles, Chip, Alaska, and another friend, Takumi, begin planning a revenge prank.
Miles becomes part of their friend group and starts smoking cigarettes. The four of them get caught smoking and Alaska and Chip cover for Miles and Takumi, demonstrating to Miles that you cover for your friends instead of ratting them out. Miles settles into his new school and does well in his classes because he spends so much time studying. Alaska decides she will find Miles a girlfriend, and eventually introduces him to a Romanian student named Lara.
Miles is hit by a basketball, gets concussed, and then vomits on Lara. Afterward, Miles tries to talk to Alaska, but is confused when Alaska becomes moody and short with him for no apparent reason.
The Weekday Warriors target Alaska with a prank, reminding Chip and Alaska they need to work on their own revenge prank. Takumi reveals to Miles that it was actually Alaska who ratted out the couple who were expelled the previous year. Takumi warns Miles that he cannot rat anyone else out if he gets caught carrying out the revenge prank. Miles is still infatuated with Alaska and asks his parents to let him stay at school over Thanksgiving break so he can be with her.
Although he knows she has a boyfriend, Miles wants to be with Alaska. They ultimately spend Thanksgiving Day with Chip and his mom. The five of them spend the remainder of the night and weekend camping and hiding in a barn on campus as their alibi is that they were all off campus. They play a drinking game and Alaska reveals that, as a child, she saw her mom die of an aneurysm and did not call an ambulance because she thought her mom was just sleeping.
The text of the novel is the only source material for the novel! I think Alaska is clearly struggling and in a lot of pain, though. But the weird thing about depression is that it tends to further isolate you from people, thereby making it ever-harder for anyone to bridge the gap and really hear you in the way you need to be heard.
This is the most insidious thing about depression, I think: It makes itself more powerful by dragging you away from the world outside of yourself. I was pretty reckless when I was in high school, and I have periodically lived with depression, and I really struggled against self-destructive impulses. I also never drove drunk. Driving drunk always seemed really crazy to me because you could hurt someone else.
Of course, what I never thought through in high school was that when I hurt myself, I was also hurting other people, especially the people like my parents who loved me the most.
Fair enough; it is a little gimmicky. Such things happen, though. Guilt is a very common response to the loss of a parent or loved one. Occasionally, you do. But all that stuff is so interdependent. That was all meant to indicate how incompletely he sees Alaska, something she mentions to him again and again. Yeah, he starts to affect the action in the second half of the novel, but he is very conscious of this passivity. It was important to me when writing the story that Pudge not be blameless.
The question for me becomes whether you can find a way to live with yourself, whether forgiveness is still available to you even though the person you need to forgive you is gone. Alaska can never reconcile that question for herself with regards to her own mother. Pudge does eventually find an answer that brings him comfort, but along the way he has to become much more proactive about his life and his choices.
Oh, I think Miles is probably just lying to his father. You know, as one does. But yeah, Miles is weak-willed. He engages in self-destructive behavior and fails to recognize the seriousness of the self-destructive behavior around him.
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