Narrator

The book "Looking for Alaska" is written in the first person narrator. This has the vintage, that we all know how the main character Miles feels. We know his feelings, we know his thoughts and we know what he is going to do next before he really does it. Also we can better identify ourselves with the main character and we can get deeper into the story.
But there're also disatvantages, for example we don't know how the other characters feel. We are only able to see the person from the perspective of the narrator. We can only speculate how they feel, like we don't know why Alaska is so moody. Maybe she is unlucky with some situations. If the book would be written in the third person narrator, we would know more things about Alaskas feeling, or the feelings of the Colonel after the break- up with his girlfriend Sara.