Literary Elements In Paper Towns

The conflict of person vs. person begins with Don Justo Flores. Each day he goes to the beach where people beach pay him to see his birds perform tricks. Don Justo is a lonely man but he has a story. He had two wives and five children, including Justina, his first, and Ernestina, his fifth. Suddenly he receives a telegraph; he suspects it is bad news but he cannot read. He hopes the telegraph is from Justina saying all is forgiven. So as he walks on the beach as usual, he finds a girl named Rita and asks her to pick her fortune. Don Justo asks the guy next to her to read him the telegraph. The guy tells him it is bad news after he reads, “Come home at once, papa Justina is gone from us.”(A Place Where the Sea Remembers, Sandra Benitez, p. 108) So he gathers his things and goes to town for tequila and he blames himself for not being a good father and not being there for Justina when she was a little girl. He remembers allowing his second wife to push Justina out of the house; he cannot stand the pain.

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.

Life is very complex and often hard to define. However, this challenge does not stop people from trying to sum up the meaning of life in one word. In Paper Towns by John Green, the three metaphors the strings, the grass, and the vessel are used throughout the book to chronicle the protagonist’s, Quentin, experiences. The novel revolves around Quentin Jacobsen, a high school senior. When his former best friend and long time crush, Margo Roth Spiegelman, comes back into his life and then suddenly disappears, Q attempts to piece together the clues he believes Margo left behind for him. Each of these three metaphors represent what Q is feeling and allow him to view life from different perspectives. As

2) The conflict in this story is person versus environment (society) And to a lesser extent, person versus person.

Battles and fights are some examples of conflict in most fictional stories. They can be many different fights, like the epic battle between good and evil, or a kingdom defending their land from enemies. When people think of the word ‘battle’, they may think of climatic sword fights and war. But sometimes, battles can take place inside of a person. Perhaps a character may have conflicting aspirations and desires that may cause an internal battle and maybe result in something catastrophic. Or perhaps a character has opposing personalities that might clash and cause something important to happen. In many works of literature, the writer

The conflict in this short story is about man vs man, man vs society and man vs self. Man vs man is portrayed through the bullies and Mickey, man vs society is struggling with identity and man vs self is the struggle with inner self power.

The five main characters involved in Paper Towns. They are Quentin Jacobsen, Margo Spiegelman, Ben Starling, Radar Lincoln, and Lacey Pemberton. All five characters connect back to the main theme of the story, which is that people change over time and they chase after what they want in life, no matter what they leave behind.

In the book, Paper Towns, there are many people that cause conflict like Chuck Parson, Jase Worthington, and Margo's parents. Throughout the story, these people cause small conflicts. The real person who is always in the center of conflict is Margo. Even though Margo isn't really a "villain", she is the main person that causes all of the conflict in this book. She is very well-known at her school, and she is dating the popular jock, Jase Worthington. Everyone knows Margo Roth Spiegelman.

One conflict in this story would be Paul and Joey at the carnival while the Tangerine Middle kids where there. The boys on the Tangerine middle soccer team vandalized the one of the carnivals exhibits. In the story it says “ The Tangerine County Sheriff’s Department received a complaint from the owners of the carnival that one of their exhibits was vandalized by boys from the soccer team.” “ All three adults turned to me. Mr Morrow said. “ Okay who did it.” This conflict would be a example of character vs character. This would be character vs character because the boys (joey and paul) have to tell who it was that vandalized the exhibit. This conflict helped drive the plot because after the sinkhole disaster, Paul has to go to Tangerine middle with the kids that vandalized the exhibit.

In this situation Ponyboy and Darry are verbally fighting each other. Furthermore, when Ponyboy arrived late coming home, Darry was really mad and slapped Ponyboy in the face. Another example of person vs person would be Paul and Darry. Since Darry can’t pay for his college and he needs to look after his brothers, he becomes a greaser. Paul is the complete opposite when compared to Dally. Paul comes from a rich family and he gets to go to college and be a part of the football team. This is an example of person vs person because in the rumble they are both physically hurting each other because of their differences. This is an example of person vs person because they are fighting each other to show superiority and dominance. Finally, an example of person vs person would be Johnny and Dally. When Ponyboy was at the movies Dally was annoying and bothering cherry by saying rude comments. In the text it states “Dally started to put his arm around her, but Johnny reached over and stopped him. Saying "Leave her alone Dally." In this situation Dally and Johnny are an example of person vs person. Dally wants to tease Cherry but Johnny is stopping him. This is creating an obstacle for Dally thus making it person vs

People can get to know each other through conflict because if you get in fight or just hear a person start to be rude you can know what their personality is and could get into a big argument. In the story Nicole and who we really are very similar because they are both black and have white families and people would be talking bad stuff about them and they would know who is rude and who is nice. Another example my personal example when I got bullied a lot in Los Angeles and one day I fought back and got out all my anger from my mind and body. So conflict can happen when you don’t know the person because the bullies didn’t know me well and don’t know my personality.

| Person vs. Society * This story seems to be Tom against “the mob”. Tom seemed to have a different outlook compared to the other people in the square. Person vs. Self * Tom also had a minor Person vs. Self conflict because he didn’t know whether to follow the crowd or listen and follow his feelings and aspirations.

Throughout literature and film, common themes have appeared and stand out once seen by a viewer and reader. Because of these themes being so prominent, they have shaped culture and society into what it is today. One of the most important and well-known theme is friendship. A bond as strong as friendship is shown to be able to conquer anything. Literature shows the ups and downs of friendships time and time again, and in most cases, towards the end, those relationships have changed characters’ lives causing people to relate to it. However with any relationship, the downs in friendships can always reach rock bottom at some points. Authors use friendships to create archetypes about different sets of characters. Because of this companion archetype, people are able to find different ways to fulfill those empty spaces in their very own lives.

The main character of Paper towns is Quentin Jacobsen. He is 18 years old, lives in Orlando, Florida, and is a senior about to graduate high school. He is a regular person in the beginning of the book with fears and isn't special in any way and he lives a very normal life, except for that he is madly obsessed about his lifetime neighbor, his childhood friend, and his lifelong crush, Margo Roth Spiegelman. Margo unlike Quentin, lives a very not normal life and her personality is the complete opposite of Quentin’s. Margo is brave, curious, confident, and is downright awesome. These attributes make Quentin feel like Margo is amazing and make him want to be with her. Nine years ago at the age of nine, Quentin and Margo find a dead body in Jefferson park, Quentin is scared of it and backs away while Margo on the other hand is curious and approaches it. Margo says that she can see that all the strings inside of the dead guy are broken. Then Quentin grabs her and they run home away from it. This shows that Quentin is a person that is easily scared and afraid of things, but he also really cares about the people he love. Then nine years later, Quentin Jacobsen is an average, unpopular student that is still afraid of things, while Margo Roth Spiegelman is one of the most popular girls in the whole school and is still courageous and brave. Quentin and Margo now hardly even talk to each other now until, One night, Margo goes to Quentin’s room and asks him if he wants to

The main goal of the protagonist (Quentin) is to find his childhood best friend, Margo after she “goes missing”. However, Quentin hasn’t spoken to Margo in over nine years, until she shows up at his window for the first time since they were kids. Margo takes him on a crazy adventure, but little did Quentin know that she was going to leave after that. He ends up being the last person to see her, so he feels like it is his obligation to find her. Margo loved leaving clues, so when quentin starts finding “clues” around her house and the town, he starts to believe that the clues were left for him. Quentin even said it himself, “i don’t know who she is anymore or who she was, but i need to find her”(pg.141) this shows how determined he was to find her, despite how much he even knows about her.