Who Is Margo Roth Spiegelman's Perception Of Reality?

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

“At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you will look back down and see that you floated away, too.” (Paper Towns, 98). This sentence brings a very heartfelt mood to the story. John Green says in an interview with New York Times that he uses more romantic words and feelings to draw in his teen or young adult audience. Margo as a character makes you want to pay attention to the little things and life and take nothing for granted, because one day you will look back on the small things and realize the impact they had on your life, and how they were truly important. In his other book, John Green brings a very emotional story to home for many young adults. It shows the struggles of anxiety, being in a relationship, and big losses in ones life. Aza says to Davis “Most adults are just hollowed out. You watch them try to fill themselves up with booze or money or God or fame or whatever they worship, and it all rots them from the inside until nothing is left but the money or booze or God they thought would save them.” (Turtles All the Way Down 126) This quote is very hard for some to digest. It shows all the bad things people do to fill their voids of loss or mental illness in their

Like in this quote, you cannot simply choose something just for appearance; you need to like what’s on the inside too. In the same way, Paper Towns seems like a classic young adult romance book, but it’s so much more than that. The book is basically overflowing with ideas, literary references and a deep understanding of the way senior year in high school feels like. Not only is it very well written, but you also quickly become attached to many of the characters in this book. As you turn page after page, you soon come to feel like you’ve known the characters for your whole life, and don’t want to see them go. Green’s writing style never makes you feel like you’re being talked down to, because he isn’t just giving his readers a message. John Green encourages his readers to ponder things in hope to connect one thing with another. Because, in the end, this insanely and intricate book is just about someone connecting with something

Paper Towns In the novel, Paper Towns by John Green, Quentin “Q” Jacobsen goes from having a normal boring life to having life changing experience, all because of Margo Roth Spiegelman and her love for mysteries. This is how it all began, “The way I figured it,everyone gets a miracle. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.” (3).

This took away from the idea Perception versus Reality. In the book, it is discovered that, despite what everyone thought, Margo was not always out experiencing new and exciting things. Instead, she went urban exploring with upperclassmen and usually sat alone writing. One character even said, “She seemed pretty depressed actually.” (Green 205). This detail gives more depth to her character and makes Margo seem more real, but it was excluded from the screenplay. The audience was not able to get a glance of the authentic girl behind the mystery, which takes away from the theme. At another point in the book, Q and his friends discover a grimy, asymmetrical Margo, who reacts harshly to their presence in her barn. This moment shows the reality of Margo, who is just a regular girl, and this shatters most of the amazing, cool perceptions Q’s friends had for her. This is a crucial moment for both Margo’s characterization and Perception versus Reality in the story, but the movie chose to cut it. Without these crucial aspects of the novel absent from the movie, Margo’s character does not seem to evolve and the idea of Perception against Reality is lost.

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

Paper Towns is about a boy name Quentin Jacobsen and a girl named Margo Roth Spiegelman. They lived right across from each other. When Quentin and Margo were young they were pretty close, but when they got older they drifted apart. They both had different friend groups and different interests when they got to high school. Then at midnight one night Margo Came to Quentin’s window, and took him on a little adventure.

Paper Towns written by award winning author John Green, is a captivating, intriguing, innovative, coming of age novel that had me hooked from the first paragraph. The novel follows the story of a teen boy - Quentin Jacobsen and his overwhelming obsession and love towards his ex childhood best friend Margo Roth Spiegelman. After spending a night together for the first time in nearly 11 years, Quentin then goes on to discover important life lessons after Margo simply disappears without a trace, leaving Quentin convinced that Margo has left him clues of discovery - that she wants him to find her, or perhaps not after all. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and as I found the quality of of both the writing and story line was extremely strong and relatable

Quentin is unconfident, which makes Margo see him as less attractive. Quentin is also a hopeless romantic which makes him not see Margo in her true colours. Q is unconfident because whenever Margo says something he agrees with her, even though he actually disagrees with her, which does not make him able to voice his opinions. Q is also a hopeless romantic because when it is about Margo, he idealizes her, to the point that he cannot see that she has flaws and that makes it harder for him to see the real Margo. Being a hopeless romantic can cloud the person's judgment when it comes to the person they love, at times a person can end up falling in love with a person who is not who they thought they were, so they do not see the person they love

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.

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.

Paper Towns exhibits that nothing is what it seems up close. Details are what make up someone's unique code, though many may seem great on the outside when you zoom in, the personality is completely distorted. John Green writes Margo to appear as a real down to earth girl. Margo has the perfect characteristic Quentin is willing to fall in love with. Quentin is blinded by his love for Margo and fails to look closer. Ben brings up to Quentin the true hardship of falling in love during the road trip, “ ‘It’s easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl… then I had to basically start liking a whole different person’”(267). Ben had the blindfold taken off, and is now able to see his love up close. Quentin should attempt to see Margo for who she really is, a regular girl, who took him on an adventure one great night.

Paper Towns by John Green is about a boy named Quentin Jacobson and his adventure with his friends to find his crush Margo Roth Spiegelman.Margo was found crouched in a area with her hair cut and dyed a different color with dirt all over her face. When they tried to convince Margo to come back home she just refused. “But imagine being someone else, or wishing something else, is the only way in” (Green 299). To summarize the quote, it's much simpler to think something

When Q finds Margo, he doesn't push her to what he beleives she should do. Q really wants her to come home and contiue their relationship; however, he sees that she, with all her might, goet against the 'papertown'. Q, as a true firend, lets her make her own decision, even if he knows he will miss her.

​ “It’s a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those streets that turn in on themselves, all houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people, living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.” (Green, p57) Quentin is also known as Q in the story, falls in love with his neighbor Margo after they take a late night trip to go and play pranks, getting revenge on old friends and break into SeaWorld, as Margo wanted. She’s not the typical girl, she has a passion for electric music and breaking into people’s houses and old, abandon buildings. After their crazy night, Margo goes missing, no one had any idea where she went. They thought she was just going out for a few nights, but they come to realize she wasn’t coming back, she wanted someone to find her, someone meaning Quentin. Paper towns are a confusing yet very meaningful title to this book, she also leads Q to these paper towns