Analysis of Looking for Alaska

In Looking for Alaska,  the format of the first half is in the form of short stories divided by day. But the two halves are divided before and after implying that this is still technically exposition or rising action. At the moment the stories (which are interesting by the way) look for the most part unrelated unless on the rare occasion one of the stories of the previous day is brought up again. I think this could result in one of two ways. 1: all of the stories could just be unrelated exposition to get a feel for the characters. As un eventful as that sounds that's apart of life. Everything might happen for a reason but not everything has to do with everything else in your life. For example, your fifth birthday will not be important to you during your midlife crisis. or 2: maybe all of the stories will tie in after the event that happens that kicks off the second half of the story. Maybe not major ways but maybe following the train of thought of our protagonist and narrator, Miles. This rises the question, "what is happening to call the second half 'after'?" I don't know. But based on the title Looking for Alaska and Alaska being one of the main characters I believe that there is a good chance Miles, the Colonel and possibly Takumi will have to go find her. When the group is just sitting together smoking cigarettes Miles asks, "'Why do you smoke so... fast'... She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas case and said, 'Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die'" (Green 44)  If this is the case, her motives for getting lost are unclear and I feel there is a good chance it will be for most of the book because going off the back cover, it descirbes Alaska as, " The gorgeous, clever, funny...self-destructed, screwed up and utterly facinating Alaska Young" (Green). And Miles even said, "' Sometimes, I don't get you' ... She just smiled towards the tv and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point" (Green 54). But not only is Alaska unpredictable, everyone is. You never know how someone is going to react to something because you only have the concievable power to use your own mind. But no matter how it ends, I am just happy it is not a mere page story about how to find the state of Alaska in a map.