Margo Roth Spiegelman's Paper Towns

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.

My graphic representation shows the east coast states and a red line going through those states. That line is how Quentin and his friends got to Margo. That is the link between them. The red line is not just a route that he needed to follow. He had to figure out the final destination of this red line. Spending hours upon hours of trying to find Margo, he finally pinpoints her location to Agloe, New York. His biggest clue was the quote "fyi, whoever Edits this—the Population of agloe Will actually be One until may 29th at Noon." It wasn't the quote itself, but the way it was capitalized. Margo capitalizes randomly, and that is how Quentin knew it was her. The destination on the graphic representation is Roscoe, not Agloe. That is because Agloe is only a paper town.

Quentin Jacobsen Throughout the novel, “Paper Towns”, which is written by John Green, our protagonist Quentin Jacobsen undergoes significant character development which is largely influenced by his interactions with his neighbor and childhood friend Margo Roth Spieglman who eventually goes missing. Quentin is initially described as a timid and quiet individual however, as the story progresses, his character grows and becomes more courageous and is determined to find Margo at all costs. His relentlessness in his pursuit of Margo highlights his character growth as he is confronted with various challenges that he is forced to overcome, but in doing so, is forced to do things that he would never in his life imagine doing. Initially, Quentin, or

In a society where young adults are consumed by superficial appearances, the desire to understand others and conceptualize life is neglected. In the novel, Paper Towns, John Green challenges young adults to consider different perspectives through relatable characters and their experiences. At the beginning of the novel, Margo and Quentin do not recognize each other’s existence. Then, one night, Margo enters Q’s room through the window, and they go on an epic adventure of revenge. The next morning, Margo is gone.

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.

Theme is another factor in this debate. The novel and the movie have very similar, yet very different ways of portraying the theme. The main theme in Paper Towns, don’t idolize people, speaks of the way Quentin and many others regarded Margo all her life, as a miracle. After Q goes on his journey to find her he learns a lot more about her including that “The fundamental mistake I had always made was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was just a girl.” (Green, 199) (Jake Shcreier). This is a quote from both the novel and the film that represents the theme however the setting in which it is said is very different in the two mediums. In the novel Quentin is in his bedroom, it is a quiet night and he is thinking revelling in his thoughts. This is a calm and simple setting that allows the reader to completely focus on the

"'It's beautiful,' I said. Margo scoffed. 'Really? You seriously think so?'" Quentin replies, "'I mean, well, maybe not,' I said, although it was.'" (Green 57). Quentin is keen on Margo’s approval and willing to change his opinions and beliefs to agree with hers, which determines the weak sense of self-essential to his personality. Margo glorifies his confidence when he flirts with her, but it is clear Quentin still lacks the confidence to defend his views and opinions. If Quentin does not become more confident in himself, he will always second guess himself and he will not be happy with

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

The definition of courage is the ability to do something that frightens one. Margo Roth Spiegelman is an astonishing character that displays this trait. Margo and Quentin first met when they moved into the same neighborhood, Margo being her curious self she decided to sneak into Quentin’s bedroom. They talked for hours on end and began to grow a strong friendship. Since that night, Quentin follows Margo on all of her mysterious adventures so she can try to get revenge on her cheating boyfriend. However, Margo then goes missing the next day and leaves a small number of clues for Quentin and his friends to find her. In John Green’s Paper Towns, Green demonstrates what it’s like to grow up with a moving family, arguments and many more at home issues that teenagers face daily.

Adventure is a clear theme and motif throughout his journey. While he loved the idea of finding Margo, the quest to find her was ultimately better than finding her. Their trip spanned the entire East Coast from Florida to New York. Speed pit stops, side stories of romance and even deadly cows were encountered in the process of reaching his final destination. After shock and disbelief strikes himself and the rest of his friends when they're left alone at a vacant and barren shack in the middle of nowhere, his friends are ready to end the journey there and make it home in time for their senior prom. Quentin had other plans. Quentin had gone blind, covered in the mask of love and made the choice to stay alone, while his friends had begun their trip to return home. When Quentin finds Margo roaming the streets of Agloe, he confesses his love, but instead of being met with joy, he discovers his misdirection. Margo wasn't leaving clues for him to find her, she was leaving clues to remind him that she was safe. Quentin now becomes enlightened on the fact that she didn't bring him the happiness that he had always wanted but instead the experience did. The experience of going on an adventure was what made him feel good.

In Paper Towns, Margo used Quentin for revenge on the people who had done her wrong before she ran away. Margo claimed that she chose Quentin and he chose her back but in all reality, most of the shenanigans that they got themselves into did not benefit Quentin at all so Margo was just using him. “‘I picked you. And then you picked me back.’ Now she looked at me. ‘And that’s like a promise. At least for tonight.’” (Green, 70). Quentin does not realize that he has been used because he loves Margo. In both The Great Gatsby and Paper Towns it comes out and says that Jay loves Daisy and Quentin loves Margo. This is more so true with Quentin and Margo. We see this in two places. The first is when Margo and Quentin are on their adventure and he is just listening to her talk. “The thing about Margo Roth Spiegelman is that really all I could ever do was let her talk, and then when she stopped talking encourage her to go on, due to the facts that 1. I was incontestably in love with her, and 2. She was absolutely unprecedented in every way, and 3. She never really asked me any questions, so the only way to avoid silence was to keep her talking.” (Green, 31). The second time is after their adventure when Quentin goes to school just to see Margo. “... I would have skipped school, except I had a perfect attendance, and while I realized that perfect attendance is not particularly impressive… I wanted to keep the

She believed nobody would like her true personality because of her flaws, which is why she cultivated her paper identity. Even Quentin fell for her fake personality, helping her cultivate it without him knowing it. Margo struggled to see meaning and value in everything because her paper identity was preventing her from doing so. Quentin believed Margo was describing her own opinion of Orlando and its people when she was actually describing how she felt about herself. I too, hadn 't noticed that Margo was talking about herself at first, which is why I chose to use it.

They weren't spending any more time or hangout together since the dead body, On day at the middle of the night Margo came to Quentin window asking him for a favor. She needs him to drive her around for revenge against her friends who betrayed her by lying and cheating. Quentin wasn't sure about it at the first but he was so excited that he and Margo are friends again.

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.