Quentin Marregelman Analysis

First, one goal that I have noticed in "Paper Towns" is that John Green had set up the problem. Here is a sentence from the book, that expresses the goal that Green uses, "As mom pulled up to school, I saw Margo's usual spot empty in the senior parking lot." Green is setting up the problem because that is the first observation that Quentin noticed about Margo's disappearance; later in the book Quentin notices more clue expressing

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

Lacey, the last main character in Paper Towns, is a kind-hearted person who helped Quentin during his road trip to Agloe. In the book, Lacey describes Margo, “‘I honestly never thought of her as anything but my crazy beautiful friend who does all the crazy beautiful things,’” (Green 185). In the quote, Lacey talks about Margo, like she was her friend and cared about her, even though 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.

Agloe was a paper town until someone built a store and made it real. Then soon later it went back to be a paper town. This ties into the quote, "you will go to the paper towns and you will never come back." This quote is significant to the story because Margo went to a paper town and was not turning back home. She went to Agloe because it was "A paper town for a paper girl," as said on page 293. That is why she went. She says on page 294, "I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also." Margo was a paper girl that wanted to become real. That is why she went to the paper town that became

In the novel entitled Paper Towns by John Green she runs off to an unknown place called a paper town and a lovesick friend is determined to find her. There is multiple reasons and much rationality in why Margo had decided to disappear to this place.     The most obvious reason that the novel, Paper Towns is called this, is because

In chapters 1-3 of Paper Towns, there was an act that occurred which caused a reaction in later on chapters. After Margo and Q’s late night adventure, Q was happy and excited to see her the next day; however, she never showed up to school. For everyone they revenged on that night, Q suddenly got noticed and gained a few more friends. During school, most students didn’t really care about what happen to Margo and where she went. On the other hand, Q was trying to figure out where she was by using the clues she left behind. Because of this, Q missed prom and had less attention to school and more towards finding Margo. In part 2 of the book, it mentions how he was so focused to finding Margo that he didn’t want to do any activities before and after

On page 57 I found a quote that really resembled the title of the book, “It’s a paper town…all those paper people living in in there paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.” One night Q’s life was not what he had expected at all. When Margo took Q to the top of the SunTrust bank Q had no idea what was happening until he walked into the conference room with Margo and saw their whole town of Orlando Florida. That is when Margo told Q that she believed they lived in a paper town. Later on Q found out a paper town is a fictionist town that a mapmaker creates so people won’t copy it. So Margo thought the town of Orlando Florida was made up and so were the people, pets, buildings the whole entire city. Since Orlando is not technically an actual

“It’s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all these cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.” (Green, 57)The novel “Paper Towns”, by John Green is about a boy named Quentin Jacobson, who has spent a life time loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar, so when she cracks open a window into his life, he follows. I think a major theme in the novel is seeing the truth in people, and knowing that our view or idea of a person will never be enough to show all that a person really is.

Quentin, a nerdy high school senior, is, and always has been, infatuated with his next door neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman. Quentin describes this situation by saying, “My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivision of Florida, I ended up living next to Margo Roth Spiegelman” (Green 1). Previously best friends, the two have become largely independent of one another, almost never speaking or even sharing a friendly glance. Until one night, Margo breaks into Q’s window and takes him on a wild night of revenge against her enemies. Expecting to run into Margo at school the next day, Quentin finds that she has gone missing, presumably run away. After learning about Margo’s tendency of leaving breadcrumb trails, Q soon discovers the clues, and they are for him.

There are two main reasons that Margo discarded her life in Orlando and relocated to a different place. The first of these justifications is that nobody ever understood who the real Margo Roth Spiegelman is. Margo was surrounded by people who inaccurately interpreted her. Margo did not feel incredible and wonderful like everybody imagined her to be, she felt empty, lonely, and crestfallen. Margo left because she had no one left; her boyfriend had cheated on her, her closest friends had betrayed her, and her parents resented her. In Margo’s mind, all the strings inside of her had broken. She was a paper girl in a paper town, and she had nothing left holding her there. In addition, Margo also left because she felt that Orlando was a paper town and so was everyone and everything in it. Margo left because she was tired of being a paper girl in a paper town: “A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could have ever imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could

In the beginning of the novel “Paper Towns”, the main character, Quentin, is determined to find Margo, to bring her home, and that he will not be happy until he does. He also tells himself if she does not want to come back home with him, he will stay and travel with her. By the end of the novel, after he finds her, he is willing to accept Margo doesn’t want to come back, that maybe he can be happy, even if he does not find her or she does not want to come back, and that he has a life back at home and he cannot just run away with the girl of his

At the dawn of this novel the character named Quentin meets Margo and they place for socializing encompassing the town. They basically explore the town, impose and sneak in at night to places where they cannot go to. For the reason that it was late night and everything was closed. Consequently, Quentin falls in love with Margo that night and awaits to see her the next

By comparing Orlando to paper town, Margo’s unique perspective is shown once again. The way that she talks about the cul-de-sacs expresses her feeling of being trapped without any open places. The paper town relates to the houses where everything is frail including the people who live inside because they only concern and care about their own things. This refers to Margo’s family lacks of attention to her or sometimes the overly protective behavior they shown. Through this, Margo’s desire to escape to the place with no limits or her need for freedom is seen. As it was seen in the beginning, Margo being different from others is represented with her mysteriousness and odd

Paper Towns is a movie portraying the journey of Quintin and his friends search for Margo, Quintin’s childhood crush that disappeared after they shared an adventurous night together (Bowen et al., 2015). Margo left clues behind which allowed Quintin and his friends to figure out where she was staying at. The last few weeks before they walk the stage, these friends are going out of their comfort zone and doing things that they have never done before. They realize that these few weeks will be the memories they will cherish as their senior year comes to an end. Throughout the film these young adults are slowly figuring out their own identity.