Paper Towns John Green

First of all, the story takes place in the summer of 1960, in a town by the name of Castle Rock in the state of Maine. The problem of the book immediately comes to surface as a boy by the name of Ray Brower from Chamberlain, Maine goes missing and is presumed dead. The main character, Gordie Lachance, and his three friends, Chris Chambers, Teddy Ducamp, and Vern Tessio, set out to find his body after telling their parents that they are going camping.

Agloe was a paper town until someone built a store and made it real. Then soon later it went back to be a paper town. This ties into the quote, "you will go to the paper towns and you will never come back." This quote is significant to the story because Margo went to a paper town and was not turning back home. She went to Agloe because it was "A paper town for a paper girl," as said on page 293. That is why she went. She says on page 294, "I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also." Margo was a paper girl that wanted to become real. That is why she went to the paper town that became

Paper Towns In the novel, Paper Towns by John Green, Quentin “Q” Jacobsen goes from having a normal boring life to having life changing experience, all because of Margo Roth Spiegelman and her love for mysteries. This is how it all began, “The way I figured it,everyone gets a miracle. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.” (3).

one of the cities in the book called Hooverville. It was this same city where one

These reasons are very cool and intelligent of the author to put these into his story. One of the reasons this book is called Paper Towns is because where the author says that Margo and Q live is actually a real paper town. Where they play mischievous pranks on people is also an actual paper town. Another reason is because Margo does research on paper towns and marks paper towns on the maps that Q finds as some of the clues she leaves for him to find her. She uses the paper towns because they lead to abandoned places and the middle of nowhere and it confuses him and makes him sometimes believe that she is dead, yet he still never gives up. He was determined to find her dead or alive. A third reason this is called paper towns is because Margo sends Q to the paper towns and some of the places he actually finds clues to where to try and look next. Quentin actually ended up finding her at a paper town she had marked. She was in an old, rundown, crumbling piece by piece

John Green argues within looking for Alaska for a view the world is a labyrinth. In general life is not fair “I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist”(Green 219) Pudge(the protagonist) says this in his essay to answer the question “damn it! How will I ever get out of this labyrinth.” “You've got nothing to be sorry for chip there was nothing you could have done”. But if only she knew. Madame o'malley tells this to the Colonel as he was having a mental mishap. Even though that the author never said Colonel feels damned about Alaska's death. He implies, it “the colonel was screaming inhale,scream I realized he was screaming “I'm So sorry”. (Green 141) Colonel thinks that it's all his fault

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.

"'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

In the movie, the filmmakers uses the rural area around the train tracks to distinguish from the small town they live in and Gordie narrators the movie while stating where they live, the season and the year. The movie clearly distinguishes what area they are in throughout their journey to find the dead body. In the book, the author, Stephen King, uses very descriptive details about where the boys are to make the book come to life. He uses details in the clothing, prices of the items at the store, and the description of how the boys act during the hot summer season. They both take place in a town called Castle Rock, but in the book it is Castle Rock, Maine

Q spends the whole night finding little clues that Margo left behind. He unscrews his door knob and finds a little piece of paper with an address written on it. This has to be were Margo went, that is all I am thinking. Q and his friends go to that address immediately finding out it wasn't what they expected. On the inside in spray paint it said once you go to paper town there is no leaving it. I immediately thought that she must be in the city. Q and his friends got scared and

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.

Quentin feels honored that he was asked to help her with her revenge. However that was the last night Quentin would see Margo. After a night full of revenge and pranks on her friends, Margo has disappeared. Quentin wonders if he will ever see her again. Quentin and his friends search Margo’s room to look for clues. They find a poster that is taped to the back of her window shade with a poem; the poem is a copy of “Leaves in the grass” which they believe will lead them to Margo. But the poem leads them to an abandoned mini mall, where Margo has been camped out but no longer is. After a long and hard search of the mini mall Quentin and his friends find a map that might lead them to Margo. Quentin’s biggest fear is that Margo is dead. But she’s alive and she’s in Agole, NY until may 29th. The map that they found

In the novel entitled Paper Towns by John Green she runs off to an unknown place called a paper town and a lovesick friend is determined to find her. There is multiple reasons and much rationality in why Margo had decided to disappear to this place.     The most obvious reason that the novel, Paper Towns is called this, is because

Most people spend their whole lives talking to others, but never truly knowing who they are speaking to. John Green, the New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in our Stars and An Abundance of Katherines, presents the reader with Paper Towns, the perpetual journey of Quentin Jacobsen as he attempts to break out of his shell in order to find love. Paper Towns follows Quentin, a shy and nerdy senior in highschool, as he travels in search of the miraculous Margo Roth Spiegelman, who disappears after they share a night of vengeful adventure. Although Q’s single minded obsession with Margo led to conflicts between him and his friends, he eventually realizes that his infatuation for Margo has skewered his perception of reality, and that people

There are two main reasons that Margo discarded her life in Orlando and relocated to a different place. The first of these justifications is that nobody ever understood who the real Margo Roth Spiegelman is. Margo was surrounded by people who inaccurately interpreted her. Margo did not feel incredible and wonderful like everybody imagined her to be, she felt empty, lonely, and crestfallen. Margo left because she had no one left; her boyfriend had cheated on her, her closest friends had betrayed her, and her parents resented her. In Margo’s mind, all the strings inside of her had broken. She was a paper girl in a paper town, and she had nothing left holding her there. In addition, Margo also left because she felt that Orlando was a paper town and so was everyone and everything in it. Margo left because she was tired of being a paper girl in a paper town: “A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could have ever imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could