Metaphors In Paper Towns

Our states’ department of education is under pressure to ban the novel “Paper Towns” by John Green. Critics of the book state that the book should not be taught in the classroom nor included in the library for individual checkout due to mature content. On the other hand, after reading, I believe that teachers should have the right to teach the novel when appropriate and students can read the book if they choose.

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.

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.

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.

Not so much in the way that he scatters social media throughout his books, but more so in the sense that he addresses the way situations, interactions and experiences have changed since the days of Walt Whitman. Green often does this through the use of textual analysis and allusion, something that doesn’t exactly translate very well to the screen. Although, the screenwriters here did find a relatively savvy way to incorporate such allusions into the film through the direct use of Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ (again, an aspect derived from the novel). This film specifically emphasizes idealism, seeing something not as it is, but instead as what you’d like it to be. The film asks you to look at the way you view your work, life, relationships, and, like the film’s title, your own town, and ponder why you see it the way you do, is it out of idealism or realism? ‘Paper Towns’ also touches on an epoch in someone’s life, specifically the final stretch of high school. Not in the cliché sense to where the protagonist doesn’t know exactly what he wants to do after high school, but more so in that he fears the freedom that will accompany the end of his

In the first chapter I automatically noticed that this book's main character, Quentin or known as Q, was one of the “different ones” in school. He was talking to his mom about how he hates prom the people that like prom. As he walks into school he is talking about all the popular kids and how they look at him as he walks by. He has a best friend named Ben that was just like him. They told each other everything. Everyone wants that one friend that you could just tell them whatever was on your mind and would understand. The second chapter his friend/neighbor/his dream girl, Margo snuck through his window and said I need you and your car, I have have stuff

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

John Green’s novel Paper Towns is a story of a modest math geek, Quentin Jacobsen and his adventurous neighbor Margo Roth Spiegleman. Margo climbs through his window one warm Florida evening to summon him on an all night adventure that would change him forever, and his sleep schedule. Through each page, John Green artfully weaves carefully crafted messages to support the theme of “friends help friends through the good, bad, and the ugly”.

John Green loves to make his readers think when they read his books and in Paper Towns there is no exception. Papertowns for the most part focuses on the struggles of having an identity. It addresses the idea of people, places, and things looking one way on the surface but being completely different underneath. One passage in the book that captures this theme on pages 57-58. During this time, the main characters Margo and Quentin are at the top of the building looking out at the town they had grown up in. My favorite line from this passage is spoken by Margo, “Everything’s uglier up close,” (Green 57). I love this line because it is so relatable. In life people constantly change themselves and put on an act as a way to fit in or live

and artistic norms,” the “Village Bohemians”, settled in the port town to enjoy themselves and share their artistic creations. (Sarlós) Due to lack of congruent evidence or remains from those summer months, several myths have arisen regarding the Provincetown Players’ founding, leaving the group’s beginnings fairly open to interpretation. The only three factors in the groups’ birth beyond dispute are as follows: “the plays were first thought of as a profoundly therapeutic party-game for a small, close-nit group; the idea no sooner emerged than it materialized in the form of scripts; Jig Cook was spiritus rector before it all began.” (Sarlos) The Provincetown Players marked a new era of theatricality in the United States and developed a new

Everyone in the world has a tendency to push their ideals onto other people. This point is illustrated throughout Paper Towns by John Green as main character Quentin searches for his childhood friend Margo Roth Spiegelman. Throughout the novel, he has several life-changing revelations on both himself and those around him. The characterization and misconceptions between main characters Margo and Quentin represent the deeper ideal that a person’s true self is hidden from the world.

Paper Towns by John Green teaches the reader never to judge anyone or assume anything about anyone. The author John Green suggests to never to put your thoughts on a person and expect them to be just as you hoped because you can be greatly disappointed. ?? (Need help with thesis)

The novels were really really different but similar at the same time. Both books were of Young Adult Literature. The writing style is different between the books in All the Bright Places Violet was a cheerleader and Finch was the school outcast which makes it an occurrence in recent books. In Paper Towns was written with words that people like me were familiar with which made the book easy to understand. The tone for the books are different too All the Right Places focuses more unhealthy life of Finch and how he wants to take his life and the lively Violet who feels lonely without her sister while Paper Towns is centered around knowing what’s coming next since all the clues are laid out. The sentence length wasn’t that different between the

Love has always been a powerful theme used in many novels, whether they be classics or not. It can affect the outcome of the entire book, whether it be a character, a situation, or even a change in the theme. In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens shows the importance of love and hate throughout his novel. Love has been shown to triumph all, but also shown to cause tragedy as well; both of these themes were shown through Dickens’ classic. Through the many characters and situations in the novel, Dickens was able to tie in how love was intertwined with each outcome.

In the book Paper Towns by John Green, the reader goes through a whirlwind of emotions while still being amazed by all the massive adventure that Q and his friends go on. In the book, the main character Quentin and the love of his life Margo go on an adventure to undo all of her mistakes and get payback on the people that were stupid enough to wrong her. Throughout the book, Quentin shows a lot of different emotions and or traits that can be seen by the reader. Even though there are many traits, Q throughout the book is loving,clever, and adventurous. No matter how tough things get for Q and his friends, being loving,clever,and adventurous helps Quinten get through it.