Paper Towns Sparknotes

The book is better because it gives more excitement and emotion. The book just explains each of the events in great detail. I don’t know about other people, but for me the more information there is, the more I understand it. And in the movie of “The Outsiders”, it does not really say much about what’s going on. For instance, when Johnny dies, in the movie, Ponyboy goes home but it does not tell how long he had been out. In the book, Pony is walking home from the hospital and a man asked him if he wanted a ride (Hinton 151). Though others might think that the movie is better because it visualizes the events that are happening. But, even though it envisions what the book tells about does not mean that it is one hundred percent better.

Quentin is symbolized as a paperboy because he is one of the people who has a monotonous life and is an ordinary person. In the book, Margo tells Quentin, “All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail,”(Green 57). The quote explains how life in Orlando is like a paper town. Everyone

In the movie there was a lot more stuff going on and everything happened a lot faster. In the book it took so much longer for everything to happen, and in the movie it felt more “real”. In the movie we could actually see how dark and scary the city really was. The city was really dark and they had a lot of blackouts and they were running out of lots of stuff. Lastly, the mayor got killed and that’s what he deserved. He was taking from The City of Ember, and so they were running out, because he was taking it all. All in all, the movie was a lot better then the

Anyways, when it comes to comparing the book and the movie, I think the book is the best for a number of reasons.

The book was better than the movie as I have stated above. One reason for the book being better than the movie is that facts have shown that 74% of the movies that have books. The book is better. This is one of those cases. The book was longer, which led to a series of unfolding events where as the movie got right to the chase, and skipped a lot.

Senior Quentin Jacobsen has grown up with senior Margo Roth Spiegelman, but as they got older their social lives went serrate ways. Quentin or “Q” as his friends call him is now more of a nerd, hanging out with his band nerd friends Ben and Radar. Quentin is smart, careful, kind, intelligent, and extremely level headed. Margo on the other hand is the total opposite. Margo Roth Spiegelman is the popular girl, dating the jock, gorgeous, and very mysterious.

In John Green’s novel, Paper Towns, Green expresses his idea, through lessons that Margo teaches Quentin, that it is important to live in the present and not in the future. In the beginning of the novel, Margo brings Quinten on a revenge adventure. During this time Margo first brings up the idea to Quentin that he lives in the future, “Q, you’re going to Duke. You’re going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole life, and then you’re going to die, and in the last moments, when you’re choking on your own bile in the nursing home, you’ll say to yourself:’Well, I wasted my whole life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school’” (Green 70).

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.

In Paper Towns by John Green, I've noticed the peculiar relationship between Margo and Quentin. I believe that this symbolises two of the most important themes in the novel, being Identity and exploration. Ever since Quentin and Margo found a dead body in a park together their friendship hasn't been the same, then Margo disappears and leaves Quentin clues to find her or ‘save her’ he and his friends eventually skip graduation and explore the options these clues leave them along the way Green develops his intense and sometimes complexly confusing themes.

Paper Towns exhibits that nothing is what it seems up close. Details are what make up someone's unique code, though many may seem great on the outside when you zoom in, the personality is completely distorted. John Green writes Margo to appear as a real down to earth girl. Margo has the perfect characteristic Quentin is willing to fall in love with. Quentin is blinded by his love for Margo and fails to look closer. Ben brings up to Quentin the true hardship of falling in love during the road trip, “ ‘It’s easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl… then I had to basically start liking a whole different person’”(267). Ben had the blindfold taken off, and is now able to see his love up close. Quentin should attempt to see Margo for who she really is, a regular girl, who took him on an adventure one great night.

“All those paper people living in paper houses burning the future to stay warm” is just a look into a teen novel Paper Towns written by John Green and was released in 2009. Paper towns is a teen novel that outlines the relationship between two childhood friends but as they have grown up their friendship has grown apart. Quentin and Margo are now graduating high school when Margo feels she needs a change in her life. Taking Quentin her childhood friend on a adventure to plot revenge on anyone that had messed with her before she would leave to venture out to a paper town. She leaves clues behind resembling that she is okay, but Quentin interprets it differently. Once he finds out he has feelings for her,

I enjoyed the book better because it had a multitude of details ,however the movie was great too.

Paper Towns starts in Orlando Florida, where Quentin Jacobsen has carried on with all his life, adoring Margo Roth Spiegelman since when they initially met. The book, on the other hand, begins with the foundation of Margo and Quentin's relationship. Back when Quentin and Margo were in primary school, they were friends ... Until one day, when amidst their journeys, they discovered a deceased man sitting under a tree. Margo was truly fascinated of the man, needing to explore his demise, yet Quentin needed to leave and call for help quickly. After they cleared out and the police had assumed control, Margo had really investigated it herself while Quentin was at home. One night after, Margo went to Quentin's window and lets him know what she had

Every character reacted individually to Margo’s disappearance in his or her own manner. First, many of Margo’s friends and family demonstrated a negative attitude or no attitude at all towards this situation. Mr. and Mrs. Spiegelman reacted in an extremely negative manner. The two parents were sick of Margo’s various antics and disappearances, and they changed the locks on their house in order to keep her out. Most of the other individuals involved in the situation, including her friends, showed little acknowledgment of the situation because Margo had performed her vanishing act before. She was like a magician, and one day she would reappear again. Next, the characters that experienced the greatest reception to Margo’s disappearance were the ones that knew her the least. The one exception to this rule is Margo’s friend Lacey. Lacey is the only one of Margo’s friends that participates in helping Quentin find her. Despite Margo being mad at her, Lacey is desperate to help find Margo. Ben becomes exceedingly uninterested in the Margo situation once he forms a relationship with Lacey. Ben still participates in finding Margo because he wants to support both Lacey and Quentin. Radar, Quentin’s other friend, is immensely supportive of Quentin throughout the situation. He helps out when he is able to and enjoys all the mystery in the clues that Margo leaves behind. The one affected the greatest in this situation

One main reason the book was better is because in the story, the narrator was a character. That means you get to know what's always going on in his head. For example, in the movie there's a scene where the narrator gets injured and