Paper Towns is a movie portraying the journey of Quintin and his friends on a mission to find Margo, Quintin’s childhood crush that disappeared after they shared an adventurous night together. Margo left clues behind which allowed Quintin and his friends to figure out where she was staying at. The last few weeks before they walk the stage, these friends are going out of their comfort zone and doing things that they have never done before. They realize that these few weeks will be the memories they will cherish as their senior year comes to an end. Throughout the film these young adults are slowly figuring out their own identity.
High School Cliques Just like any typical high school the viewer is able to see the different cliques. The two cliques that were presented in the film were the popular kids and the nerds. Quentin and his friends were the nerds because they were in band, focused on SAT exams, never skipped school, did not party and drink, and had high grades. These are characteristics that are typically given to non-popular kids or nerds during high school. On the other hand, the popular kids were presented as wealthy, rebels, attractive, hold high status, would drink, and had parties. These two different cultures allowed the viewer to understand that high school is an important part of a student’s life.
Adolescent Dialogue The dialogue presented in the movie related to the spoken language of today’s teenagers. There were a lot of curse words shared among these
In life, there is always that one person who is two faced and acts different around every person, and their best friend sees who they actually are on all sides. In Paper Towns by John Green, Q is the best friend of Margo and he sees who Margo really is, this causes Q to change and become fearless and brave in his relationship with Margo.
Just like in the movie, high schools form cliques that are based off of similar personalities. Spending time in detention
First, high schools do have cliques that unify students by groups. However, that doesn’t mean students confine in the groups they are “assigned” to, as shown in most movies representing cliques. In the movie The Breakfast Club, the five main characters used to represent the school all come from different crowds, which ultimately results in showing how they can still get along even though they don’t necessarily hang out with the same people. The characters are defined as “a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal.” These labels divide the characters into
The book Paper Towns by John Green is a story about going past the imagination to actually know somebody. Quentin, who is convinced he is in love with the wild and adventurous Margo, goes on a journey to find her when she ran away. Through this journey, he finds a new Margo, the real Margo. Instead of imagining the Margo of his dreams, who is perfect and daring, he sees a different side, like looking through a fun house mirror. Using the theme of perceptions vs. reality, John Green shows readers through Quentin that you have to dig deeper in order to know and understand someone.
In the famous movie, “The Breakfast Club,” we see how five teenagers, each a member of a different high school clique, spends a Saturday in detention together and realize that they are all more than their respective stereotypes. High school cliques determine who, what and where students belong. The typical high school has "cliques"; which are groups of students with similar interests that hang out together. When looking at what really goes on in the average high school, and how friendships are formed, it is amazing. When observing the jock, the nerd and the popular kids, one must wonder where they fit in and how these groups will affect the future.
Paper Towns is a novel written by John Green. It’s about Quentin “Q” Jacobsen who is now a senior band geek (who isn’t actually in band at all). Since he was young, Q has been head over heels for his next-door neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman. However both teens are on totally different routes toward the beginning of their lives. The morning after pulling an all-nighter filled with revenge and Mountain Dew, Margo goes missing. She’s known for running away and coming back with improbable stories that in fact, turn
Paper town symbolizes different meanings, and one of them is a fake town. A paper town is a fake town because it is not what it looks like. Margo thinks of Orlando as a paper town. When Quentin and her are at the top of the SunTrust Building and they look at Orlando from above, Margo says, “All these paper people living in their paper houses,” (Green, 57). Margo thinks the
John Green’s novel Paper Towns is about a boy named Quentin Jacobsen who falls in love with the girl next door, Margo Roth Speigelman. In Quentin’s eyes Margo couldn’t be any more perfect. Unfortunately, Quentin and Margo drifted, they were friends when they were younger but grew apart as school sorted them into cliques. Quentin and his best friends Radar and Ben are “nerds” while Margo and her “frenemie” (a supporting character) are popular and “cool”. Bewilderingly enough, Margo invites Quentin on thrilling adventure that included catfish, exes, friends, breaking laws, and Sea World. The day after Quentin’s dream-come-true day, Margo is gone. At first, no one even worries about it, but as time goes on Quentin becomes worried. Detective Warren
The main theme in Paper Towns is to always chase after what you want in life. This can be seen in many of the characters- Margo who leaves everything behind to find herself. Ben, who never gives up hope of dating Lacy. Quentin, who misses his graduation in order to find Margo.
As one might expect from a teenage film, the characters use a large selection of colloquial language, including taboo language. This ‘slang’ is most often used towards each other than towards the adults, likely due to the fact that it has perhaps been used to converge (Giles’ Accommodation theory
Paper Towns was written by New York Time’s bestselling author John Green and recently adapted onto the big screen by director Jake Schreir. This young adult novel takes place in a fictional neighborhood located near Orlando, Florida. The novel focuses on the main character, Quentin Jacobsen, and his neighbor and former close friend, Margo Roth Spiegleman, who decided to run away and leave her life behind in this small “paper town” they call a home. Although this had been planned for a while, Margo had decided to leave soon after she rekindled her friendship with Quentin during a late night trip filled with mayhem and payback to those who wronged her. The movie adaption of Paper Towns is decently similar to the novel, but there are various
Paper Towns uses a lot of symbolism to represent the feeling of emptiness and something being unrealistic. The paper towns are fake towns that have no real meaning. Q realizes that the real version of Margo isn't his “miracle” in life because Margo isn't everything that he had built her up to be. John Green uses symbolism throughout the novel to demonstrate how one sees himself, outlooks on life, and ways of viewing other people in the
Within the mind, we have thoughts and triggers that set our fears. Fear is the number one thing that can cause us from doing things in life. No matter what time frame we are in, on this planet, we learn that fear is worth controlling in life. One spectacular movie that inhibits fear and control so well in our human nature is The Village by M. Night Shyamalan. Mr. Shyamalan shows so much potential in this film with ourselves and the viewing of certain scenes that trigger the mind with control and fear. A few of the scenes in the movie inherit the cultural background with the late 1800’s time frame and sets a real tragedy throughout the film. In this motion picture, we learn certain things that fear some of us and have plot twist actions that make the movie so spectacular. As we approach the plot twists; fear, themes, and control for this video, it is a life lesson in most cases maybe for those who are in-love or just looking for a movie to open our minds.