Paper Towns John Green

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.

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.

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.

Paper Towns by John green is one of my favorite books ever. In this book "Q" has to go on a search to find his crush/friend. Miles and Q are a lot alike, they are both kinda wallflowers, the don't have very many friends and they are pretty smart but quiet. Both of these characters have to do something the never could have done before. In Looking for Alaska he stepped out of his comfort zone by drinking and smoking which lead to Alaska's death. However in paper towns Q has to step out his comfort zone to find the girl that he

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).

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.

In the book, Paper Towns, by John Green, one of the main characters, Margo Roth Spiegelman, greatly influences the actions of her childhood best friend, Quentin Jacobsen. Margo brings out the more adventurous side of Quentin as she convinces him to live more and break the rules. After Margo goes missing, she leads Quentin on a quest to find her. Margo also helps Quentin think more deeply about life, people’s true characters, and love.

Paper Towns by John Green is the story of Quentin and his friends, Ben, Radar, and Lacey as they travel go on a journey to find Margo who may not want them to find her. The theme of this book is a reunion. Meaning that the main character, Quentin, goes on a journey to reunite with Margo, who he has known his entire life. To accomplish this, he first has to figure out where she went and then he has to come up with a strategy to reunite with her.

Paper Towns, this book is based on teenager, and like other teenagers, has a crush on a certain girl. But the girl he likes isn’t like other teenagers, she’s different. It gets exciting when this girl sneaks into his room in the middle of night with a list of things to do. They end up going on a journey. But the next day it all changes. She’s gone. When he wants to find her, he then notices that she had left clues to try to find her. But what happens when he does?...

When Quentin and his friends went searching for Margo, they came across places that helped them understand what kind of person Margo really is. All of them knew Margo, but not in a certain way. "These are the things I cannot imagine, and I realize I cannot imagine because I didn't know Margo” (Page 170). Quentin is thinking about Margo and the clues she gives him. Also, he questions why she

In the realistic fiction novel, Paper Towns, the author John Green writes a story about little kids Quentin “Q” and Margo Roth Spiegelman as they are riding their bikes and they spot a corpse of a divorced man who had committed suicide at Jefferson Park. Nine years later, Quentin and Margo grow apart and never talk. But suddenly, one night Margo shows up at his house to ask Quentin to help her with eleven missions to get revenge on the people who have hurt her in her high school years. She needed Quentin’s car and him to drive. They go on their journey on a school night and seek revenge on many people. Margo takes Quentin to an adventure filled with fish, vandalizing, spray-paint, and breaking into SeaWorld. After her eleven things are completed, Quentin is glad that he is back to being friends with Margo.

He learns there is more to people, especially Margo, than what meets the eye. Quentin comprehends that everyone changes and grows, and it is quite trivial to cling to a perceived notion of Margo he had fabricated years earlier when they were children. This mere image Quentin had constructed portrayed Margo as flawless, unblemished, prize-like object to be sought after. After Quentin discovers Margo he learns that she wasn’t as concerned about his well being as he was with hers. "Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.” (199) Quentin started to see Margo for what she was, not the one- dimensional girl he had formulated in his imagination when he was younger. “And all at once I knew how Margo Roth Spiegelman felt when she wasn’t being Margo Roth Spiegelman: she felt empty. She felt the unsaleable wall surrounding her.”

Paper Towns, by John Green, follows seventeen-year-old Quentin Jacobsen, also known as Q, on his journey to find Margo Roth Spiegelman when she goes missing the night after their adventure around Jefferson Park. In this passage, Quentin is enjoying dinner with his parents, who are both therapists. His mother brings up Chuck Parson, a ‘bully’ at Quentin’s school, and she is “pleased for him” because he got accepted into the University of Georgia. The mention of Chuck and Quentin’s dislike for him ultimately leads to a discussion about human perceptions of one another and Q seeing Margo as who she truly is. Two metaphors are used during the discussion: windows and mirrors.

Quentin is a shy boy, who is not so popular in the school. He has two good friends called Radar and Ben. Quentin is very good at school and is that kind of guy who obeys the rules and doesn’t do anything wrong. However, his neighbor Margo, who he had known almost eleven years, is the opposite to Quentin. He has always been madly in love with her but he have never had the courage to say it to here.