Characters in Looking For Alaska In the novel Looking for Alaska, the characters aren't the best role models but they seem like actual people. For example: Alaska, One of the main characters, is how Miles and Chip get cigarettes. And Miles, who narrates the story and eventually ends up falling in love with Alaska, doesn't automatically fall in love with Alaska; he spends the next page talking about how pretty Alaska is. And Alaska doesn't fall for him; she kind of flirts with him but constantly reminds Miles whenever something is about to happen that she has a boyfriend. The other enjoyable things about the characters is they all have little quirks. Miles memorizes the last words of famous people, Alaska has a really large stack of books she is planning on reading when she is "old and boring", and Chip can name all the countries in world on a map. But the way that the characters act as a group seems very real to me. Most of them have nicknames like Chip is the Colonel and Miles is Pudge but their conversations are really convincing. "'Anyway' Alaska said 'I thought the way he treated you was awful. I wanted to cry. I just wanted to kiss you and make it all better' 'Shame you didn't' I deadpanned and they laughed. 'You're adorable' she said, and I felt the intensity of her eyes on me and looked away nervously. 'Too bad I love my boyfriend.' I stared at the knotted roots of the tree on the creek bank, trying hard not to look like I've just been called adorable" (Green 43).