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    person or an object. In John Green’s Paper Towns, the words paper town symbolizes many things such as a fake town, a pseudovision and a copyright trap. These are all different thing but they all have one thing in common. The symbols of paper town all circle around one main theme, and that theme is fakeness. Paper town symbolizes different meanings, and one of them is a fake town. A paper town is a fake town because it is not what it looks like. Margo thinks of Orlando as a paper town. When Quentin and

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    Paper Towns, by John Green, is about a boy named Quentin (Q to his friends) who has spent most of his lifetime loving his childhood friend, Margo Roth Spiegelman. One night, Margo takes Q with her on an adventure,she spends the night getting her revenge on her so called “friends”. The next day, Margo is nowhere to be seen and no one seems worried but Q. Q discovers that Margo left behind clues, and he is determined to discover the mystery behind Margo, but the closer Q gets to her the more he discovers

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    Paper towns by John Green is a book about a boy named Quentin Jacobson who is in love with his childhood friend, Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children Margo and Quentin took a trip to the park one afternoon, but when they arrived there was a dead body. Margo believed that it was only because all of his strings had just broken. One late night, a month away from graduation, Margo showed up at Quentin's window asking for help on a task of 11 different things. Quentin agrees to help Margo, she tells Quentin

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    Paper Towns by John Green teaches the reader never to judge anyone or assume anything about anyone. The author John Green suggests to never to put your thoughts on a person and expect them to be just as you hoped because you can be greatly disappointed. ?? (Need help with thesis) 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

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    Paper Towns by John Green is the story of Quentin and his friends, Ben, Radar, and Lacey as they travel go on a journey to find Margo who may not want them to find her. The theme of this book is a reunion. Meaning that the main character, Quentin, goes on a journey to reunite with Margo, who he has known his entire life. To accomplish this, he first has to figure out where she went and then he has to come up with a strategy to reunite with her. This book starts out when Margo runs away from home

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    In John Green’s novel, Paper Towns, Green expresses his idea, through lessons that Margo teaches Quentin, that it is important to live in the present and not in the future. In the beginning of the novel, Margo brings Quinten on a revenge adventure. During this time Margo first brings up the idea to Quentin that he lives in the future, “Q, you’re going to Duke. You’re going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole life, and then you’re going to

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    “It’s a paper town. I mean look at it Q: look at all those 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). This quote is from The #1 New York Times Bestseller, Paper Towns, written by John Green. In part one of this book, Quentin Jacobsen, the main character, lives in a subdivision in Florida named Jefferson Park. Quentin’s miracle in life was his

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    main events chronologically in the order they happened. In other words, write the main ideas about the story from the beginning, the middle, and the end. Use Times New Roman Size 12 font. In Paper Towns by John Green, I read about the life of a few high school seniors’ last months of high school. Quentin Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman have been childhood friends forever because they are next-door neighbors. They were neighbors since the age of two

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    John Green’s novel Paper Towns is a story of a modest math geek, Quentin Jacobsen and his adventurous neighbor Margo Roth Spiegleman. Margo climbs through his window one warm Florida evening to summon him on an all night adventure that would change him forever, and his sleep schedule. Through each page, John Green artfully weaves carefully crafted messages to support the theme of “friends help friends through the good, bad, and the ugly”. The first time in the novel that the reader can see “friends

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    Paper Towns, by John Green, follows seventeen-year-old Quentin Jacobsen, also known as Q, on his journey to find Margo Roth Spiegelman when she goes missing the night after their adventure around Jefferson Park. In this passage, Quentin is enjoying dinner with his parents, who are both therapists. His mother brings up Chuck Parson, a ‘bully’ at Quentin’s school, and she is “pleased for him” because he got accepted into the University of Georgia. The mention of Chuck and Quentin’s dislike for him

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