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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

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

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.

So he agrees and they end up having a really great time. I believe that this is the beginning of the theme exploration within the novel. Personally I believe that Margo Roth Spiegelman fits perfectly into the song ‘On the Road Again’ because she can’t stop going places she's never gone before, exploring possibilities and exploring herself in a way too. I do however think that Quentin has more of an explorative spirit than Margo as he explores himself, his love for Margo, his friendships, the country and Margo’s mind all by following some clues. Both characters exploration develops throughout the text as Quentin’s goes from exploring a new flavour of nutrition bar to exploring his own actions and feelings that he hasn't even given the smallest thought to over the past 17 years such as his love for Margo Roth Spiegelman, and exploring new options such as he can actually be someone else to not only others but himself he does’t just have to be Margo’s admirer. This is just like what many teens are going through right now, maybe not in such a gigantic scale but there are so many teens out there right now including my self who are exploring new horizons, such as tertiary study options and learning what the relationships we have at this age mean to

But Green throws in a twist, this love story seems normal on the outside if readers ignore the close up details of each character. Lacey may seem like a popular stick up girl, but once removing the popularity filter from her, she is a regular quirky teen. Quentin appears as a boring, nerdy guy, but when with Margo his whole demeanor and confidence changes. Margo may seem like a down to earth girl, but is really a paper girl. Margo admits to becoming a fake girl, the kind everybody likes, “ A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could ever have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also”(294). Margo appeared so perfect to Quentin, but that was only because she had converted into the idea everyone fell in love

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

Paper Towns is The New York Times Bestseller, Edgar Award, and Printz Award winning novel written by John Green. The way Green organizes the book is well simple and well planned and is simple to follow. The novel is divided into three sections that organize the growth of the story and plot. I liked the way this was done because it keeps the reader alert and more involved in the novel. Margo and Quentin, the two main characters in the novel, are childhood friends who gradually drift apart as they grow older. Everything changes between Margo and Quentin when they discover a dead man 's body. This event transforms their lives and Margo 's imagination. Margo disappears one day after spending a night filled with bold risks with Quentin, and he is convinced that Margo left him clues to help him find her. Symbolism is shown throughout the book that helps convey many different meanings of life; and two examples of symbolism include strings and paper towns.

Theme is another factor in this debate. The novel and the movie have very similar, yet very different ways of portraying the theme. The main theme in Paper Towns, don’t idolize people, speaks of the way Quentin and many others regarded Margo all her life, as a miracle. After Q goes on his journey to find her he learns a lot more about her including that “The fundamental mistake I had always made was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was just a girl.” (Green, 199) (Jake Shcreier). This is a quote from both the novel and the film that represents the theme however the setting in which it is said is very different in the two mediums. In the novel Quentin is in his bedroom, it is a quiet night and he is thinking revelling in his thoughts. This is a calm and simple setting that allows the reader to completely focus on the

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

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.

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

Quentin “Q” Jacobsen is a soon-to-be graduate of high school. He is charming, very affectionate towards Margo Roth Spiegelman, and hates getting into trouble. Paper Towns by John Green, is a novel about a boy named Q who has his whole future planned out. He is going to go to Duke University, get married, and have children. Until one night, Margo asks him to go on a crazy nighttime adventure that changes his life. She convinces him that going to college, getting married, and having children is in fact not the perfect life. He then realizes that he can’t live without her. Unfortunately, he would have to after that night. Q then finds out that Margo ran away the next morning. Margo leaves him clues to her current location, and Q tries his best to follow. He is determined to find her, and fast.

In “Paper Towns,” in the very beginning, Margo and Quentin go on an adventure. While the movie had this as well, they missed and changed a few of them. They didn’t break into Sea World or give Karin flowers, and they wrapped Lacey’s car in plastic wrap instead of breaking into it. Also, while they did wax off Chuck’s eyebrow, there was no talk about it being Quentin’s idea to somehow get revenge on his enemy. A big difference between the film and novel is the timing of when all this happened. In the novel, they were missing graduation for the road trip, while in the film it was around prom. This meant that Quentin’s friends weren’t in their graduation gowns on the trip, but rather, just hoping to get back in time, which they do. Quentin wasn’t going to go to prom, but in the end of the film, he decides to go. In the novel, Angela is Radar’s girlfriend, but in the film she’s Ben’s girlfriend.