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In a society where young adults are consumed by superficial appearances, the desire to understand others and conceptualize life is neglected. In the novel, Paper Towns, John Green challenges young adults to consider different perspectives through relatable characters and their experiences. At the beginning of the novel, Margo and Quentin do not recognize each other’s existence. Then, one night, Margo enters Q’s room through the window, and they go on an epic adventure of revenge. The next morning, Margo is gone.

Quentin Jacobsen (Q) has been madly in love with Margo Roth Spiegelman since they moved in next to each other and were childhood friends. While they grow up that drift apart. Quentin goes to school and meets his friends as they are considered the “nerds” of the school but Margo is one of the most “popular” girls in school. In the same day Margo is at Quentin’s bedroom window wanted his car so she can complete her 11 part revenge plot which she also wants help from Quentin. Her first target was her ex-boyfriend Jase and ex-best friend Becca as her boyfriend was cheating with her best friend. Margo and Quentin, put a dead catfish in Becca’s room after they call her father to tell him that Jase and Becca are downstairs, they get a photo of Jase

In Paper Towns, Margo used Quentin for revenge on the people who had done her wrong before she ran away. Margo claimed that she chose Quentin and he chose her back but in all reality, most of the shenanigans that they got themselves into did not benefit Quentin at all so Margo was just using him. “‘I picked you. And then you picked me back.’ Now she looked at me. ‘And that’s like a promise. At least for tonight.’” (Green, 70). Quentin does not realize that he has been used because he loves Margo. In both The Great Gatsby and Paper Towns it comes out and says that Jay loves Daisy and Quentin loves Margo. This is more so true with Quentin and Margo. We see this in two places. The first is when Margo and Quentin are on their adventure and he is just listening to her talk. “The thing about Margo Roth Spiegelman is that really all I could ever do was let her talk, and then when she stopped talking encourage her to go on, due to the facts that 1. I was incontestably in love with her, and 2. She was absolutely unprecedented in every way, and 3. She never really asked me any questions, so the only way to avoid silence was to keep her talking.” (Green, 31). The second time is after their adventure when Quentin goes to school just to see Margo. “... I would have skipped school, except I had a perfect attendance, and while I realized that perfect attendance is not particularly impressive… I wanted to keep the

Because Margo had already run away from home, her parents don’t really care because they expect her to come back. Quentin was the last person her parents saw her with when her father found her at Quentin’s house at night. A private investigator asks some question about where Margo could have run away. Quentin bribes Margo’s sister, so they can investigate her room where they find a poster. The poster leads them to a song called “Walt Whitman’s Niece." The song leads them to a poem called “Song of Myself,” by Walt Whitman. In Margo’s room, there is a copy of the poem with highlighted text. One day, Quentin unhinges his door and finds another clue: an address. The next day, Quentin and his friends skip school and drive to the address left by Margo. When they arrive, they find an abandoned mall. Inside Margo left a message painted on the walls that say, “You will go to the paper towns and you will never come back.” Quentin believes that this is Margo’s way of confirming her suicide while his friends believe it means she was tired of her fake

What would you do if the love of your life ran away, and left a breadcrumb trail behind? Leave it be? Tell their family? Follow the trail and hope it leads to them? These very thought are running through Quentin’s conscience when his childhood love, Margo Roth Spiegelman, leaves town, and everything behind, including Quentin. Often depicted as, smart, thoughtful, and level headed Quentin does the only rational thing he can think of, follow the trail. Throughout the trail Quentin is forced to change his understandings of Margo, and most importantly himself.

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 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.

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.

John Green has utilised the genre of mystery/romance by using the main characters personality’s and qualities to outline these two genres. Quentin is romantic because he goes on a massive road trip and misses out on once in a life time experience in high school just to find Margo. Margo is mysterious as she vanishes without telling anyone and leaves clues which are easy enough to follow and are a sign of being okay. The story flicks back and forth between these two genres about mystery and love. Green has made use of dictation by writing in first person. This creates a thought that Quentin is telling a story in the moment and John Green is writing it down there and then. In the story understatements have been used to allow us to think deeply into the phrases. The phrase “I will miss hanging out with you” was told by Margo the night before she left. This gives sense that she will not see him which gets us thinking she may be leaving because of what she stated, but Quentin takes it differently. He thinks as they are in different social groups at school they won’t be able to hang out any more. Imagery has been created throughout the story due to when Margo explains the city as “paper people in paper houses” we imagine fake people on paper in houses. This could also resemble drawings or creations as Margo has a creative mind. The author also used parallelism this occurred when Margo and Quentin discovered more about themselves at the same time. They also both realise what they want in life at the same time as well. The style of John Green’s writing is he incorporates deep thoughts and intellectual language and concepts while also including how teenagers think and speak to entice them to read the story. All these techniques have been utilised by john Green and to make the story better. I still believe the book is really good because he has incorporated

In the novel Paper Towns by John Green, Quentin (also called Q) is an average teenager with a not-so-average neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman. Since Margo moved to the neighborhood and discovered a dead body while with Q, she has been different. She tried to piece together the puzzle as a kid, later becoming a puzzle herself when she goes missing after a night out with Q. Margo is known for leaving clues behind on her many adventures that she’s gone on, and she usually returns even though no one ever solves the mystery, but this times it’s different and it doesn’t look like she’s coming back this time. The clue’s are pointed at Quentin, and why she chooses him is unclear, but all Q knows is that the love of his life has just run away and she wants Q to find her. On his journey, he encounters hardships that are important to the work as a hole because without them Quentin would not be able to do what has never been done before, and that is to find Margo. With the help of his best mates Radar and Ben plus the assistance of Margo’s friend Lacey, the race to find Quentin’s love is thrown into full gear.

I find that she uses this theory of her to play with Quentin identity. The night Margo and Quentin go out on their adventure, it obvious how Margo takes Quentin out of his comfort zone and he learns how to take risk. However, in the end Margo realized how she fell into her own paper girl theory, she states, “I looked down and thought about how I was made of paper. I was the flimsy-foldable person, not everyone else. And here's the thing about it. People love the idea of a paper girl. They always have. And the worst thing is that I loved it, too. I cultivated it, you know?" (Green 293). This shows how Margo realizes that it's not life nor everyone in it who’s boring, but she’s the one who is boring, and she has to find what she really appreciates and loves in order to have completed her identity and eventually live life to the fullest. Therefore, Margo teaches the audience on how it’s wrong to change a person's identity and how it’s not one’s place, instead one should worry about completing and changing their own

Quentin doesn't seem like the kind of person who sees people based on who they look like or what kind of social status they have. The only thing that Quentin can see from Margo Spiegelman is how she looks and the popularity she has. In the beginning of the book, Margo appears at Quentin’s window dressed in all black, staring at him. While opening the window Quentin stated, “Her eyes were all I could see at first, but as my vision adjusted, I realized she was wearing black face paint and a black hoodie” (Green 25). Quentin’s view of Margo dressed in black resembles how he views her throughout the book. He only sees the the idea or outer figure of Margo and not the real Margo. Quentin and Margo’s adventures begin that night, which marks the beginning to Quentin’s so called successful

They confront her about disappearing. Margo disses Lacey’s choice to date Ben. Margo gets mad at Quentin and the two duke it out over everything, including his idealization of her. Quentin’s crew tells him they’re leaving in the morning, with or without him. Then Margo admits that she’s kept a journal of stories about a fictional version of her 10 year old self who had a crush on a fictional version of 10 year old Quentin and she explains her desperation to get away from where she grew up. She calls her parents and talks to Ruthie, her little sister, and the two fall asleep, Quentin’s head on copies of Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson and Leaves of Grass. When Quentin wakes up, she’s digging a hole for her journal and they bury it. She invites him to go with her to New York, but he says no. They plan on staying in touch and kiss with their eyes open, Quentin finally feeling like he can see her almost perfect while in the movie the crew arrives to see that Margo is not there, Quentin gets in a fight with his friends, telling them to go back to get to prom without him. He stays, waiting, then finally gives up and heads to the bus station to find a way home. A blur of Margo’s hair flashes in the corner of his eye while he’s buying a bus ticket and he catches Margo outside the bus station. She’s surprised he found him and calls