Pudge and The Great Perhaps

The main character in Looking for Alaska by John Green is Miles "Pudge" Halter and from the very beginning he mentions The Great Perhaps.Francios Rabelais was a poet and his last words before he dies were 'Igo to seek a Great Perhaps.'. And Pudge really wants to find his Great Perhaps before he dies. And he continues to say "I thought of the Great Perhaps and the things that might happen and the people I might meet and who my roomate might be..." (Green. 8) and  "...I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation." (Green. 9) Personally, I think that what Miles is searching for is not something you can search for but something that finds you. And, that he may have found it in Alaska. And finally he realizes it, "...For she had embodied the Great Perhaps-- she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps... You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth." Also I think this sentence implies that somehow The Great Perhaps and The labyrinth were related in a way. Miles found his Great Perhaps in Alaska and Alaska found her way out of the labyrinth maybe because of Miles.

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