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maybe he meant he was off to the great, perhaps, like he was saying maybe he was going into something great, I dont know…

So I was right?
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“I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.” and “I am off in search of a great perhaps.”
if thats what he said i think he means that after death is unsure. no one can explain what its going to be like or what will happen to you.

Francois Rabelais was a famous critic of the Rennaisance Church, so I take his last words to mean that nobody can say for certain anything about a life after death. Maybe he recognized his own uncertainty about a life after death, and in saying that he seeks a “great perhaps” maybe he means that he is seeking the heaven that may be. He must have been an open minded atheist to leave room for uncertainty.

The Great Perhaps is the manifestation of what is to come. Whether it is the next day, the next week, or your next life. It is a great perhaps. a great mystery.

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THE GREAT PERHAPS: the anythings and everythings of the world, the paths we go and the possibilities which they may or may not lead too. I love this and most days I find myself thinking about all the ways and possibilities that may occur by doing a certain thing. Its quite amazing to think that every day has the potential to go any way you choose, and the people you may meet and the oppitunities you can gain by going a different way.

mebbe he was refering to death ?

We don’t know what the Great Perhaps is. John Green didn’t specify. The reader can generate ideas of what the Great Perhaps is, but no where in the book is there a solid definition of the term.
In the “Some Last Words on Last Words” section, John said “I was born into Bolivar’s labyrinth, so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais’s Great Perhaps.” Because he said this, it is my belief that the Great Perhaps isn’t only the Perhaps of death, but the Perhaps of how to escape from the “labyrinth”. And in some cases (cough cough, Alaska, cough cough), the Perhaps of death and the Perhaps of escape were the same thing.

I don’t think anyone can ever really know what is going on in another man’s head and as these are supposedly dying words, I don’t think anyone can be sure. I have only read the quote in ‘Looking for Alaska’ so I know virtually nothing of the man himself but I always thought that the ‘Great Perhaps’ was the question everyone asks. Is there life after death? It is impossible to imagine ourselves not existing and I’m sure everyone has asked this at one point or another but no-one can ever really know because so far it is impossible to bring people back from the dead. Thus, the Great Perhaps.

I read ‘Looking for Alaska’ and after reading I always wanted to understand the meaning of the Great perhaps. Until I realized the Great perhaps is the unknown. Its like how humans always want to know what happens after we die, the possibilities are endless. It is the same with the Great Perhaps. The point is to never be certain what it is because in life you can never be certain of anything. In Miles’ case the Great perhaps he was searching for was the adventure of his future. But Alaska was looking for an entirely different Great Perhaps. She was searching for the answer of the way out of the Labyrinth of suffering and the answer to what happens when we no longer exist.