Paper Towns Identity

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The name of the novel, Paper Towns, in fact could be used to explain one of the reasons Margo left Orlando. From the outside it seems that Margo has the perfect life with numerous friends, a popular boyfriend, and a nice house. However Margo doesn’t feel like her life is as flawless as it seems. As Quentin and Margo look over the city on the night of their heist, Margo says, “It’s a paper town … I’ve lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters”(Green 55).

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

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.

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.

The characters in this book are like any other people, John green does a great job with that. One of the main characters in this book Q, ( Quinten), is pretty normal guy, but Q is pretty shy, he needs to get out more, face more things. The girl he likes, Margo, is the opposite. She is adventurous, is one for mischief, and loves mysteries. She may be one for attention, but she's way more than that. She's tired with the world, she says that the world is filled with “Paper towns and paper people.”

Although someone may know another person very well, they most likely don’t know who they really are on the inside. In John Green’s book, Paper Towns, the theme is shown through many different characters, but Margo mostly shows it. Some points describing the theme are that Quentin and his friends realize what kind of person Margo is, and how many different ways there could be of viewing someone, and Quentin coming up to a realization of the value of accepting other's flaws. In Green's book, all the characters eventually accept other's values.

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

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

In “Paper Towns,” in the very beginning, Margo and Quentin go on an adventure. While the movie had this as well, they missed and changed a few of them. They didn’t break into Sea World or give Karin flowers, and they wrapped Lacey’s car in plastic wrap instead of breaking into it. Also, while they did wax off Chuck’s eyebrow, there was no talk about it being Quentin’s idea to somehow get revenge on his enemy. A big difference between the film and novel is the timing of when all this happened. In the novel, they were missing graduation for the road trip, while in the film it was around prom. This meant that Quentin’s friends weren’t in their graduation gowns on the trip, but rather, just hoping to get back in time, which they do. Quentin wasn’t going to go to prom, but in the end of the film, he decides to go. In the novel, Angela is Radar’s girlfriend, but in the film she’s Ben’s girlfriend.