Analysis Of The Book ' The Towns '

David McCullough argues that people have more time to read then they are willing to admit, gathering information is not a form of learning, and that reading happens to be the best means of learning. He references a story of Theodore Roosevelts’ adventure through the Dakota Territory in the middle of winter. In this story Roosevelt is following a couple of thieves, down the Mississippi river, because they stole his prize winning rowboat. After catching up to the thieves and capturing them, with the help of his trusty Winchester, he dragged them cross-country, with a borrowed wagon, to justice. Then traveling forty miles on foot across the snow covered badlands to railhead Dickinson. An astonishing feat, made memorable by Roosevelt reading all of Anna Karenina through this journey. McCullough thinks of this when people claim they have no time to read.

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

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.

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

In a society where young adults are consumed by superficial appearances, the desire to understand others and conceptualize life is neglected. In the novel, Paper Towns, John Green challenges young adults to consider different perspectives through relatable characters and their experiences. At the beginning of the novel, Margo and Quentin do not recognize each other’s existence. Then, one night, Margo enters Q’s room through the window, and they go on an epic adventure of revenge. The next morning, Margo is gone.

Paper Towns takes place in and around a fictional subdivision called Jefferson Park, located in suburban Orlando, Florida. The novel focuses on the narrator and protagonist, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, and his neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman. As young children, Quentin and Margo one day discover the corpse of Robert Joyner, a divorced man who has committed suicide, in the park. Following this incident, the novel flashes forward to present-day Quentin and Margo, who are now high school students that have grown apart from each other. However, a month before their high school graduation, Margo shows up at Quentin's bedroom window with black face paint and clothes in the middle of the night. She has devised a revenge mission on a group of people who

Town is a series of thirteen short stories, each of which is told from different teenagers in a small town in NSW. Over the course of the year we meet a number of different young people from the town and are invited into their lives. The stories tackle a number of important and relevant young adult themes, including school life, family dynamics, sexuality, rumours and reputations, disability, illness and death. Whilst Roy does not shy away from tackling hard and confronting issues, his stories are told with a blend of humour and pathos which draw the reader in and allow him to entertain as well as to engage in some powerful social commentary. All of Roy’s characters are well-drawn and realistic. Readers can easily relate to these people and

Paper Towns starts in Orlando Florida, where Quentin Jacobsen has carried on with all his life, adoring Margo Roth Spiegelman since when they initially met. The book, on the other hand, begins with the foundation of Margo and Quentin's relationship. Back when Quentin and Margo were in primary school, they were friends ... Until one day, when amidst their journeys, they discovered a deceased man sitting under a tree. Margo was truly fascinated of the man, needing to explore his demise, yet Quentin needed to leave and call for help quickly. After they cleared out and the police had assumed control, Margo had really investigated it herself while Quentin was at home. One night after, Margo went to Quentin's window and lets him know what she had

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.

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.

When she leaves Orlando, she is running from the perfect image everyone, including Q, has created for her. She is also getting away from paper towns and paper people in Orlando, even though she herself could very easily be considered paper. As she gets closer to Agloe, and farther from Orlando, she believes that she is getting farther and farther from her old paper-self. But she doesn't know that as she is becoming more real she is letting down people who saw her as paper by not being perfect. Margo doesn't see herself as paper, she thinks of herself as real, just surrounded by all paper people. But she soon realizes that all her peers and people around her aren't paper, and actually are real people she doesn't know enough. It's then realized that Margo is the same as everyone else, she is equal to everyone else around her, and is not the only real person amongst paper people. “On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings the same way we are. We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.” (Green, 164)

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.

“Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one”. (Green 8). Paper Towns by John Green is a “brilliantly crafted, funny and coming-of-age journey about true friendship and true love”, (Penguin Group). It has won the Edgar Award and can be found in New York Times, Publishers Weekly and USA Today as a bestseller. Paper Towns is characterized as a mystery novel because it focuses on an investigator, its mood varies frequently, and it has a very relentless pace.

The main character of Paper towns is Quentin Jacobsen. He is 18 years old, lives in Orlando, Florida, and is a senior about to graduate high school. He is a regular person in the beginning of the book with fears and isn't special in any way and he lives a very normal life, except for that he is madly obsessed about his lifetime neighbor, his childhood friend, and his lifelong crush, Margo Roth Spiegelman. Margo unlike Quentin, lives a very not normal life and her personality is the complete opposite of Quentin’s. Margo is brave, curious, confident, and is downright awesome. These attributes make Quentin feel like Margo is amazing and make him want to be with her. Nine years ago at the age of nine, Quentin and Margo find a dead body in Jefferson park, Quentin is scared of it and backs away while Margo on the other hand is curious and approaches it. Margo says that she can see that all the strings inside of the dead guy are broken. Then Quentin grabs her and they run home away from it. This shows that Quentin is a person that is easily scared and afraid of things, but he also really cares about the people he love. Then nine years later, Quentin Jacobsen is an average, unpopular student that is still afraid of things, while Margo Roth Spiegelman is one of the most popular girls in the whole school and is still courageous and brave. Quentin and Margo now hardly even talk to each other now until, One night, Margo goes to Quentin’s room and asks him if he wants to

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