Paper Towns Metaphors

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

In life, there is always that one person who is two faced and acts different around every person, and their best friend sees who they actually are on all sides. In Paper Towns by John Green, Q is the best friend of Margo and he sees who Margo really is, this causes Q to change and become fearless and brave in his relationship with Margo.

Quentin Jacobson or “Q’’ to his friends is the protagonist and narrator of the story Paper Towns. He is an average height boy with a skinny body, black eyes and brown hair. Preparing for his graduation in the upcoming week, he has been secretly in love with his neighbor,

In her novel The Street, Ann Petry develops her theme about the disparity between the American dream and the reality of living in America as a black woman. Petry uses mood and characterization to reveal her disillusionment about the American dream as well as her central theme that it is unattainable and impractical, especially for black women. The sinister mood of the novel is created by literary devices such as personification and imagery. Petry personifies the wind by describing how it “rattled the tops of garbage cans [and] sucked window shades out through the top of opened windows” (1).

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.

When they come across a place where Margo had recently slept on her runway, Quentin thinks to himself how he knows Margos smell and what she most likely did while staying there but he can't began to imagine why she would stay there. ¨These are the things I cannot imagine, and I realize I cannot imagine because I didn't know Margo.¨

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).

At the beginning of the book, Quentin narrates a story of when he and Margo were nine years old. They had came across a man who had committed suicide. Margo tried to become a detective, and get all the information she could about the man they had seen. That night she relayed her new-found clues from the investigation. She was obsessed with the puzzle.

The book “Papertowns” by John Green is about a guy named Quentin who has spent his whole life in love with the most popular girl in school, his neighbour and childhood best friend, Margo. They continued to be friendly to one another as they grew up but not friends. One night Margo shows up at Quentin’s window sill, like she used to when they were younger, and takes him on a night of adventures. This night involves getting even with bullies and friends who have wronged them and breaking into an amusement park while having a lot of fun. The next day Quentin goes to school wondering how Margo will act around him now that they have had this adventure together and discovers that she has disappeared. She is 18 so the parents cannot force her to come

Paper Towns by John Green, is a realistic fiction book. It uses realistic characters that the reader can connect to. Quentin is a regular boy in his senior year of high school, in Orlando, Florida. He has his two best friends, Radar and Ben. They live a pretty average and safe lifestyle. On the other hand, Margo Roth Spiegelman is a popular and rebellious girl in their senior class, who also lives next door to Quentin. Ever since they were young, Quentin has loved Margo, and has idolized her. After they spend one crazy night together, Margo disappears and it is up to Quentin to find her, at least that is what he thinks. The author is trying to get across to the reader, through this story, that what you perceive is not always reality. The characters

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

At first, Margo seems like a legend, but she’s just a person. During this story, Margo runs away from home yet again. Police start to search for her and most students are concerned about her. In Quentin’s opinion the school feels empty without Margo, but eventually people stop caring. However, Quentin is still worried about Margo. “What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person”, Quentin still thinks of Margo as a mystery that needs to be solved, not just a person. This is a recurring theme in Paper Towns.

​ “It’s a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those streets that turn in on themselves, all houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people, living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.” (Green, p57) Quentin is also known as Q in the story, falls in love with his neighbor Margo after they take a late night trip to go and play pranks, getting revenge on old friends and break into SeaWorld, as Margo wanted. She’s not the typical girl, she has a passion for electric music and breaking into people’s houses and old, abandon buildings. After their crazy night, Margo goes missing, no one had any idea where she went. They thought she was just going out for a few nights, but they come to realize she wasn’t coming back, she wanted someone to find her, someone meaning Quentin. Paper towns are a confusing yet very meaningful title to this book, she also leads Q to these paper towns

Paper Towns, a novel by John Green and a film directed by Jake Shcreier, follows the story of a boy named Quentin “Q” Jacobsen and his quest to find the missing Margo Roth Spiegelman, the love of his life. Despite being neighbours Margo and Q haven’t been friends, have barely even talked, since they were nine years old, despite Q’s unrequited love for her. Until one night at Margo’s persuasion the two embark on a midnight journey of revenge. The next morning however Quentin wakes to find that Margo has run away. When writing a book or directing a film, theme characters and plot are three things that affect the overall story. One representation of paper Towns did a better job of displaying these three things than the other.

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.