How did you feel about the characters? Whom did you like or not like and why?

I felt that all the characters were very easy to love. Every character created by John Green is always so loveable. I loved all the main characters in this novel individually for many different reasons. What I liked about Pudge was that he refused to let himself waste his life away and wait to seek his Great Perhaps. He was impulsive to want to go to Culver Creek but it was a good thing and so many good things came from it. I admire his courage to be able to do what he did, because he just up and moved away from his parents to live in Alabama with a roommate he doesn't know and he's essentially starting over with a fresh start with all new people away from his family. What I like/don't like about Alaska is her mysteriousness. What I liked about her mysteriousness was that it always kept her very intriguing to myself and Miles but what I didn't like about it was the not knowing who she truly was. I think that like Pudge she's a very courageous person because of the traumatic event of her mom's death and her father abandoning her emotionally and blaming her, a child. Even after all that although she states to Miles that she is a deeply unhappy person she continues to live her life and let herself love and be loved because it's all she can do. She never lets herself be vulnerable and I think that's a very hard thing for someone to do which makes her courageous to be able to stay sane with all that going on in her head. Although Alaska's boyfriend wasn't one of the main characters of the book and hardly had any dialogue I found myself disliking him very much because my mind/heart was so set on Miles and her to be together so he kind of annoyed me for no real reason but that he was with Alaska and Miles wasn't. What I really liked about the Colonel was that he was very comedic, I found myself laughing aloud while reading things that he would say or do. I just really loved his character he always kept me laughing. -Jessica