John Green's Novel 'Paper Towns'

Our states’ department of education is under pressure to ban the novel “Paper Towns” by John Green. Critics of the book state that the book should not be taught in the classroom nor included in the library for individual checkout due to mature content. On the other hand, after reading, I believe that teachers should have the right to teach the novel when appropriate and students can read the book if they choose.

They were looking out over the town. Margo was thinking how ugly it was, and how fake it all looked while Quentin thought of how gorgeous the view was. “I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenient store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper thin and paper frail. And all the people, too.” (Green 57-58). Margo was saying that it is just one big boring town that is all the same. There is never any excitement. This relates society today because everyone does the same thing everyday. We wake up go to work or school or whatever we do first thing in the morning but we do it exactly the same, every day. People are doing the same thing all the time and that makes it not interesting. It's like school we wake up, we go to school, we do what the teacher tells us and we go to our next class. It's the same schedule everyday and that's what makes school

Quentin, Ben, Radar and Lacey skip their graduation to search for her. During this hunt for Margo, Quentin starts to realize that Margo is becoming less and less of the Margo Quentin thought he knew. ¨Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing.

Radar is pointing out Quentin's greatest flaw: he wants people to be the way he imagines them not the way they really are. By explaining this he is helping Quentin grow and find himself if Radar had not said anything Quentin may not have noticed that Margo’s identity could be perceived in thousands of different ways, that he is perceiving her to be the perfect girl he wants her to be. Radar’s name implies that he has the ability to pick up things others do not see about people. It is important to note that Radar is also pointing out his own flaw and is maturing with himself.

Paper Towns by John Green is a love story about a guy named Quentin and a relationship with the girl that he has liked since she moved across the street for him in Orlando Florida when they were kids and her name is Margo. The story starts out when they were kids Margo and Quentin then one day they were riding their bikes and see this dead guy on the side of the street. Quentin isn’t torn by seeing a dead guy, but Margo is. Magro does this investigation on her own and going off and doing things that might be dangerous. She always tried to take Quentin with her, but he was too afraid to disobey his parents. This is where they split up and aren't really friends they see each other through the windows in their bedrooms but they never really talk anymore. Quintin started going into his studies and was working on being a doctor while Margo was off seeing the world she was always running off and coming back.

Most people spend their whole lives talking to others, but never truly knowing who they are speaking to. John Green, the New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in our Stars and An Abundance of Katherines, presents the reader with Paper Towns, the perpetual journey of Quentin Jacobsen as he attempts to break out of his shell in order to find love. Paper Towns follows Quentin, a shy and nerdy senior in highschool, as he travels in search of the miraculous Margo Roth Spiegelman, who disappears after they share a night of vengeful adventure. Although Q’s single minded obsession with Margo led to conflicts between him and his friends, he eventually realizes that his infatuation for Margo has skewered his perception of reality, and that people

To begin, Quentin was a normal nerdy boy, in that case, with future plans. He had good grades and to put it more simple, he had never skipped a class ever. This is an essay that addresses Quentin`s development and which events who leads to development of the character.

She very easily and often points out the imperfections of society. Her tendency to find flaws in today’s society doesn’t give her the opportunity to look at herself and realize how much of a one dimensional “paper” figure she has become in front of society. Margo shows a false personality to society, she doesn’t show her true self. This shows how unreal Quentin’s love for Margo really is, he falls in love with whats on the outside, what she projects out to society. Margo says she finds judging people off their looks “ridiculous[...]”(41), but she still falsely portrays herself to society. Society has no other option than to judge her based on what she shows them, which is a very one dimensional image of herself. All in all, Margo is definitely not the typical antagonist in a teen drama, although she might project herself as the typical popular girl who has the good looks and a popular boyfriend. Under the fake image that is shown to society, Margo Roth Spiegelmans character in Paper Towns contradicts many stereotypes for the antagonist in a teen

Stepping out into the cold, she felt a hand on her shoulder. She shrugged it off and began to run. Margo heard their screams to come back. She was almost at the end, but then she landed on the ground with a loud thud.Her cries echoed off the wall. Margo looked around to see that no one was there, or at the door. They had disappeared, walked away from the door. Had she made it up? Did they actually care? Of course they didn’t, she was crazy after all. Margo had been left alone again, except this time it wasn’t in a closet, it was on the hard floor of the

Radar’s Omnictionary program states “Copyright traps have featured in mapmaking for centuries. Cartographers create fictional landmarks, streets and municipalities and place them obscurely into their map,” (Green, 235). A copyright trap is a fake place on a map to prevent it from being plagiarized. Agloe is a copyright trap that Esso creates to place on their map. Margo reads a book and finds out that Agloe is a paper town. It only exists on the map. She also finds out that Agloe was only a paper town until an anonymous person builds the Agloe General Store there. When Quentin finds Margo at Agloe, Margo tells Quentin “Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real.” and “I thought that maybe the paper cutout girl could start becoming real here also” (Green, 294). Margo thinks that since a paper town like Agloe can become a real place, maybe she can become real too if she lives in this real place. Margo wants to become real like Algoe, she does not want to be fake anymore. She wants to be herself, not how others see her and want her to be. While Margo was in Algoe, she got to be herself, but Quentin did not. When Quentin finally finds Margo in Algoe, he tells Margo “I didn’t get to be me, Margo, because i thought you were dead” (Green, 284). Margo affected Quentin’s life a lot. He becomes like Margo and ends up living a fake life because of her. When I was in grade one, I was friends with a group of people

She hangs out with her best friend and her boyfriend, who are all in their clique, apart from Quentin and his friends. At the beginning of the book, when Ben, Radar, and Quentin are waiting for school to start, Quentin sees Margo. ‘’Ben started outlining plans for finding a date, but I was only half listening, because through the thickening mass of humanity crowding hallway, I could see Margo Roth Spiegelman. She was next to her locker, standing beside her boyfriend, Jase. She wore a white skirt to her knees and a blue print top. I could see her collarbone. She was laughing at something hysterical - her shoulders bent forward, her big eyes crinkling at their corners, her mouth open wide.’’ This example shows that Margo is living her regular, stereotypical life, laughing with her friends and boyfriend. During this time, she seems to be exactly how Quentin perceives her, which is happy, confident, and pretty. At the end of the book, her character has changed dramatically. Instead of having everything planned and perfect, having her friends and boyfriend, and living a fearless life, Margo experiences a lot of negative events which create unwanted, negative emotions, so Margo decides to leave Orlando all together. When Quentin and Margo are talking in Agloe, New York. Margo says ‘’Originally, this

The book Paper Towns begins with a flashback from nine years before all of the current events occurred. Quentin Jacobsen or “Q” and Margo Roth Spiegelman are nine years old, at the park, riding their bikes. They find a dead body at the park and in a way it creates a bond that would last forever. Now, they are in high school and it is their senior year! Quentin’s best friends, Radar and Ben, are nerds and they happen to be the total opposite of Margo. Margo is the popular girl in high school that has a complicated story. Margo and Quentin have been neighbors their whole life but it has been nine years since they last talked. One night Margo sneaks into Quentin’s room through his window and asks him to help her get revenge on her

Both girls are outgoing, unpredictable, crazy in their own ways, and somewhat popular compared to their peers. The girls were crushed on by two teenage boys that needed their affection more than they even knew. Pudge wanted Alaska to love him even though she had a current boyfriend, and Quentin from Paper Towns wanted to confess his ultimate love to Margo, but she left Orlando so he goes on an adventure to find her and pour his heart out to her. Both texts include a departure of the female characters, which makes a huge twist in the

He will seek and take after each clue that he discovers regardless of the fact that it drives him to a dead end. Some significant hints she cleared out were a highlighted duplicate of Walt Whitman's "A Song of Myself" where she had highlighted a line that indicated unhinging the entryways. Which Quentin in the long run figures out is to be taken truly as Margo had concealed a location in his entryway. He takes after the lead and discovers only a surrendered building yet after he has assessed it commonly, he finds that Margo had composed something on the dividers of the building however had painted over it. That lead turns into a dead end as

Margo Roth Spiegelman is a human mystery… who Quentin Jacobsen had been in love with for years, and probably always will be. When Margo abruptly appears back in Q’s life, they start off their once forgotten adventures with a night of vandalism and revenge on their so-called “enemies”. Living freely for one night makes Q believe that the Margo he fell in love with years ago is back in his life... and for good now. However, the idea of her being his ‘partner in crime’ like when they were little is immediately changed when she disappears out of the blue. Margo, being the mysterious girl she is, leaves behind clues for Q and his friends to where she’s hiding. In Paper Towns by John Green, Q and his friends search miles retrieving more clues along the way. On this race to find Margo, they are also attempting to make it back in time for prom night. Therefore, they go through obstacles and create some adventures of their own, making it all worthwhile to find the girl of his dreams.