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Miles Halter
- woonde in florida, verhuisd naar Alabama
- Hij is 16
- Hij wilde er weg, naar Culver creek school omdat : “He wanted to go seek a great Perhaps,
and didn’t wanted to wait till he dies”
- Zijn nieuwe school heet: Culver creek Preparatory school
- Zijn kamer daar is room 43
- Zijn kamergenoot is Chip Martin
- Hij ontving een brief van Chip Martin voordat hij naar deze school verhuisde
- Zijn bijnaam is Pudge, omdat hij zo dun is
Chip Martin
- Het was Chip zijn 3e jaar op Culver creek
- In zijn applicatie voor Culver creek vertelde hij dat hij graag naar een school wou waar je
lange boeken kan lezen
- Zijn ouders zijn gescheiden, zijn moeder woont in een trailer park
- Zijn bijnaam is Colonel
Alaska Young
- haar moeder is in 1997 gestorven, haar vader spreekt ze weinig
- op 7 jarige leeftijd vond ze haar naam niet mooi en mocht ze haar naam veranderen: Ze koos
een naam van de wereldbol: Alaska
Takumi
- a thin Japanse guy (Asian)
Lara
- She is from Romania
- Every “i” in a word, she talks like it is an “ee”
Miles ondergaat een ontgroening door Kevin Richman en een paar andere gasten: Hij werd geducked
taped om zijn enkels en mond en werd in het water gegooid. Hij verdrinkt bijna
One hundred twenty-six days before
Dress code on Culver creek is Casual Modesty. From the french classroom is the building split up in
fourteen rooms facing out towards a lake. The old man (mr doctor) with only one lung is going to talk
about religions. Christianity, islam and buddhism. Pudge gets an assignment to think about a reason
for life and what is the nature of being a person
One hundred twenty-two days before
The only thing Colonel learned from his dad is how to tie a tie. Colonel has a girlfriend Sara, who is a
weekday warrior. They dated for nine months but never actually got along with each other. He was
supposed to go with Sara and her parents to an opera with Sara's car but they didn’t go because they
got into a fight. The Colonel has a drink called Ambrosia ( drinks of the gods) . This is five parts milk
and one part vodka. Some people thought that the Colonel snitched the couple Paul and Marya. They
were in the last week of the previous school year and got suspended for four (actually three)
reasons: 1. they were naked 2. they were drunk 3. they were smoking and they were being offensive,
Paul is a weekday warrior and rich. Weekday warriors are students that get to go home on the
weekends.
, one hundred ten days before
Pudge gets expelled at religion class and Alaska stands up for him and also gets expelled. Pudge was
only staring out the window. Colonel has something such as a rap name: Colonel Catastrophe
one hundred nine days before
Alaska has a car. The Colonel does basketball. They mostly only play basketball in the fall because
the school in their league are too small for the football teams. One of the things that appealed to Miles
was that his father told him there was no PE requirement. Miles absolutely hates sport. The important
thing about their basketball team is a senior player called Hank Walsten. He is five-foot eight. Wilson
Carbod is almost six-feet and the starting center in the basketball team. Colonel calls basketball the
Culver creek nothings. The Colonel got kicked out in that game, he already got kicked out thirty-seven
times.
one hundred eight days before
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one hundred one days before
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one hundred days before
On school forms and stuff was Alaska called Mary Young, but on her 7th birthday she could choose
her own name and decided to use the globe ball. She is calling herself Alaska Young. Her parents
couldn't choose a name for her because they didn’t agreed on names. Alaska wants to teach later
disabled kids. Miles wanted to kiss Alaska when they were talking on the swings ( one of Alaska's
favorite things) but Alaska snapped out of it. On that moment Alaska told Miles the hard truth:
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth thinking about how you will escape it one day and
how awesome it will be and imagining that future that keeps you going but you never do it. You just
use the future to escape the present (miles agrees). Alaska says: You never get me that’s the whole
point. ( Miles told her that he sometimes don’t gets her)
ninety-nine days before
Alaska trades him twenty cigarettes Marlboro ( that’s what he started with when he first started
smoking) for only 5 bucks. Alaska says: “Sometimes you lose a battle. but you mischief always wins
the war”. Pudge, Alaska and Takumi got a usual hangout spot, The Eagle ( directeur) walks in on
them and calls Colonel with the name : Chipper¨
Ninety- eight days before
The school has a jury, every semester twelve students get chosen, three from each class to serve on
the Jury→ THe jury gives punishments for non expellable things:
1. You went to the jury
2. you made your casa
3. they punishe you
Alaska’s boyfriend is in a band: Jake. Alaska chose the nickname of the band: “Hickman territory”
Pudge got set up with a girl named Lara and went with Alaska and Takumi on a “three and a half”
date. They went to a basketball game but Pudge got hit with the ball and might got a concussion
(hersenschudding) He threw up on his date Lara and spended the date in the hospital with Lara and
Takumi. Pudge is jealous of Alaska’s boyfriend. Sara is mad at The Colonel and decides to tell Jake
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