Paper Towns By John Green And A Film Directed By Jake Shcreier

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

Eventually, he forgot about it and followed her plan. This shows how Margo initiated Quentin to change over time. Another internal conflict Margo faced was when Quentin and his friends finally found her and he asked her to come back. She knew that she would miss her sister and Quentin, but on the other hand, she wanted to stay back and follow her own journey. One of the external conflict Quentin faced with Ben was when Quentin asked Ben to drive him around but Ben couldn’t. When Quentin talked about this with Radar, he told Quentin that, “You keep expecting people not to be themselves” (Green 195). And this is when Quentin finally realized his mistake. Another external conflict Quentin faced was when Margo got mad when he found her by finding and linking all the clues that he thought she left him, but she didn’t leave any clues and was planning on never coming back. Quentin got a little upset about her not seeing him again but he got over it and went back home.

Lacey, the last main character in Paper Towns, is a kind-hearted person who helped Quentin during his road trip to Agloe. In the book, Lacey describes Margo, “‘I honestly never thought of her as anything but my crazy beautiful friend who does all the crazy beautiful things,’” (Green 185). In the quote, Lacey talks about Margo, like she was her friend and cared about her, even though Margo

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 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.

Paper Towns, by John Green, is about a boy named Quentin (Q to his friends) who has spent most of his lifetime loving his childhood friend, Margo Roth Spiegelman. One night, Margo takes Q with her on an adventure,she spends the night getting her revenge on her so called “friends”. The next day, Margo is nowhere to be seen and no one seems worried but Q. Q discovers that Margo left behind clues, and he is determined to discover the mystery behind Margo, but the closer Q gets to her the more he discovers that she isn’t who he thought she was. One of the reasons why Q seemed to like Margo so much is because she was different, she was actually very wise.

Paper towns, written by John Green, is a about a young and timid teenager named Quentin. However, he is in for the night of his life when Margo Roth Spiegelman, the most popular girl at school, selects him to help her with risky pranks on the friends that betrayed her. However, Margo disappears the following day, which brings Quentin to develop an obsession of finding her. Quinten, unable to merely forget about Margo, embarks on a journey together with his friends to find the girl who stole his heart. The plot functions along with the main conflict, which is Quinten against the society. The first example of this conflict is demonstrated early in the novel. After Quinten helps Margo play the pranks on her ex-friends, Margo disappears the following

Across most of Greens books, he uses the same theme to convey the message he finds important. His recurring theme in Paper Towns and Turtles All the Way Down is through everything love is always there. First, in Paper Towns, the main characters are two high school students and after a night of adventure and revenge, Margo

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.

On page 57 I found a quote that really resembled the title of the book, “It’s a paper town…all those paper people living in in there paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.” One night Q’s life was not what he had expected at all. When Margo took Q to the top of the SunTrust bank Q had no idea what was happening until he walked into the conference room with Margo and saw their whole town of Orlando Florida. That is when Margo told Q that she believed they lived in a paper town. Later on Q found out a paper town is a fictionist town that a mapmaker creates so people won’t copy it. So Margo thought the town of Orlando Florida was made up and so were the people, pets, buildings the whole entire city. Since Orlando is not technically an actual

John Green loves to make his readers think when they read his books and in Paper Towns there is no exception. Papertowns for the most part focuses on the struggles of having an identity. It addresses the idea of people, places, and things looking one way on the surface but being completely different underneath. One passage in the book that captures this theme on pages 57-58. During this time, the main characters Margo and Quentin are at the top of the building looking out at the town they had grown up in. My favorite line from this passage is spoken by Margo, “Everything’s uglier up close,” (Green 57). I love this line because it is so relatable. In life people constantly change themselves and put on an act as a way to fit in or live

“It’s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all these 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.” (Green, 57)The novel “Paper Towns”, by John Green is about a boy named Quentin Jacobson, who has spent a life time loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar, so when she cracks open a window into his life, he follows. I think a major theme in the novel is seeing the truth in people, and knowing that our view or idea of a person will never be enough to show all that a person really is.

Paper Towns written by award winning author John Green, is a captivating, intriguing, innovative, coming of age novel that had me hooked from the first paragraph. The novel follows the story of a teen boy - Quentin Jacobsen and his overwhelming obsession and love towards his ex childhood best friend Margo Roth Spiegelman. After spending a night together for the first time in nearly 11 years, Quentin then goes on to discover important life lessons after Margo simply disappears without a trace, leaving Quentin convinced that Margo has left him clues of discovery - that she wants him to find her, or perhaps not after all. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and as I found the quality of of both the writing and story line was extremely strong and relatable

Paper Towns, a novel by John Green, amazed me by being a mystery novel trapped in a drama. The book succeeded in telling the story of a boy named Quentin whose entire world is surrounded by Margo Roth Spiegelman, a mysterious girl with an adventurous life who one day goes missing for good. Initially, I recognized the wild and audacious spirit of Margo, shown on the night she travels around Orlando with Quentin, yet later realized the incompleteness and sadnesses in her eyes. After I finished reading the book, I had a greater understanding of how people are perceived in the eyes of others, and no matter how much you build someone up in your head, when it comes down to it, they are just as fragile as anyone else. Relating to this concept, one of the most memorable and important realizations in the book is when Quentin finally realizes that Margo has flaws.

In the beginning of the novel “Paper Towns”, the main character, Quentin, is determined to find Margo, to bring her home, and that he will not be happy until he does. He also tells himself if she does not want to come back home with him, he will stay and travel with her. By the end of the novel, after he finds her, he is willing to accept Margo doesn’t want to come back, that maybe he can be happy, even if he does not find her or she does not want to come back, and that he has a life back at home and he cannot just run away with the girl of his