Developing Characters

As I continue to read Looking for Alaska, I have found that Pudge and Alaska have started to make a lot more effort to speak and communicate to each other, even though I'm not very far into the book. For example, both of them are in a religion class together and Pudge seems to be very interested in what the teacher talks about but gets distracted with the outside world. When he is caught off guard looking out the window, Dr. Hyde, the religion teacher, tells him to leave the classroom. This situation seems wrong to both Alaska and Miles, but Alaska is the only one to actually stand up for him, acting like a sister to him. After he gathered his belongings, Alaska tells the professor that this is BS and why would he get kicked out for looking out of a window? It makes sense to me but after that, he tells both of them to leave. 

They start to enjoy each other's presence and make an effort to talk about what's going on in their lives. When they go to this field of clovers in a park with colonel, they have a lot of fun. Even though them just meeting doesn't mean they are going to be "best friends" you can already sense a feeling of them being close in a way that can't be described. Hopefully as the book continues, the sense of strong friendship increases. 


This link shows how to see how the characters are developed.


http://www.charactercincinnati.org/sixsteps.html