Quentin Marregelman Analysis

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

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

“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.

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

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

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

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.

One night. All it took was one night for Quentin Jacobsen’s life to be turned upside down. John Green’s novel ‘Paper Towns’ tell of two amazing adventures that changed Quentin’s life forever.

Paper Towns by John Green is a somewhat romantic young adult novel. The novel’s overlying central idea is that people are not made of paper. They have dimensions; unexposed sides to themselves that the world may never see. A person can never truly be known, because the human mind is a complex thing, filled with nooks and crannies never to be exposed.

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

Quentin goes on a mission to solve the clues and find the girl who stole his heart and made him feel alive. He goes on many dead and journeys and gets no where, until he sees a comment on a website that could only be from her. He decides to ditch graduation with his two friends and Margo’s “friend” to go on a twenty-one-hour drive to Algoe, New York, where they end up finding her. Once they find her, she tells them that she did not want to be found and they find out Margo is not who they thought she was. Quentin then gets to know the real Margo Roth Spieglman and he realizes he does not want to give up his whole life back home for a girl he only loved the thought of. Margo and Quentin burry their childhood selves and say their goodbyes, promising

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

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

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