Paper Towns Metaphors

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.

In her novel The Street, Ann Petry develops her theme about the disparity between the American dream and the reality of living in America as a black woman. Petry uses mood and characterization to reveal her disillusionment about the American dream as well as her central theme that it is unattainable and impractical, especially for black women. The sinister mood of the novel is created by literary devices such as personification and imagery. Petry personifies the wind by describing how it “rattled the tops of garbage cans [and] sucked window shades out through the top of opened windows” (1).

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).

In the novel Paper Towns by John Green, Margo Roth Spiegelman’s whole life has revolved around the philosophy of strings. Margo’s strings represented life, the living and dead, she uses metaphors and examples to show what strings are to her and the way she uses them. She used them to express being or something being broken, though in her eyes everything is shattered. She used the strings to explain how she was a paper girl which mean margo is fake, not real, and most importantly non existent in her eyes. Margo lived in a paper town which was full of paper people who she never liked because all they did when she ran away was make rumors.

Paper Towns, a novel by John Green and a film directed by Jake Shcreier, follows the story of a boy named Quentin “Q” Jacobsen and his quest to find the missing Margo Roth Spiegelman, the love of his life. Despite being neighbours Margo and Q haven’t been friends, have barely even talked, since they were nine years old, despite Q’s unrequited love for her. Until one night at Margo’s persuasion the two embark on a midnight journey of revenge. The next morning however Quentin wakes to find that Margo has run away. When writing a book or directing a film, theme characters and plot are three things that affect the overall story. One representation of paper Towns did a better job of displaying these three things than the other.

​ “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

Although someone may know another person very well, they most likely don’t know who they really are on the inside. In John Green’s book, Paper Towns, the theme is shown through many different characters, but Margo mostly shows it. Some points describing the theme are that Quentin and his friends realize what kind of person Margo is, and how many different ways there could be of viewing someone, and Quentin coming up to a realization of the value of accepting other's flaws. In Green's book, all the characters eventually accept other's values.

At the beginning of the story, Quentin spends most of his time obsessing over Margo. He views Margo as a ‘flawless, beautiful object to be sought after.’ (“Paper Towns Themes”). However, later in the story, Quentin realizes that “Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure.

The book Paper Towns, by John Green, follows the story of a seemingly invisible, love-sick boy named Quentin, on his journey to find the girl he has admired since childhood. Margo is one of the most popular girls at her school, but is very good at keeping secrets and hiding how she feels inside. She goes through a major moment of psychological development when her and Quentin discover a man who has shot himself. This is proven when Quentin recounts a childhood story of her, when he talks to her for the first time in nine years, and when he truly attempts to empathise with her.

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

The book “Papertowns” by John Green is about a guy named Quentin who has spent his whole life in love with the most popular girl in school, his neighbour and childhood best friend, Margo. They continued to be friendly to one another as they grew up but not friends. One night Margo shows up at Quentin’s window sill, like she used to when they were younger, and takes him on a night of adventures. This night involves getting even with bullies and friends who have wronged them and breaking into an amusement park while having a lot of fun. The next day Quentin goes to school wondering how Margo will act around him now that they have had this adventure together and discovers that she has disappeared. She is 18 so the parents cannot force her to come

When they come across a place where Margo had recently slept on her runway, Quentin thinks to himself how he knows Margos smell and what she most likely did while staying there but he can't began to imagine why she would stay there. ¨These are the things I cannot imagine, and I realize I cannot imagine because I didn't know Margo.¨

John Green’s novel Paper Towns is about a boy named Quentin Jacobsen who falls in love with the girl next door, Margo Roth Speigelman. In Quentin’s eyes Margo couldn’t be any more perfect. Unfortunately, Quentin and Margo drifted, they were friends when they were younger but grew apart as school sorted them into cliques. Quentin and his best friends Radar and Ben are “nerds” while Margo and her “frenemie” (a supporting character) are popular and “cool”. Bewilderingly enough, Margo invites Quentin on thrilling adventure that included catfish, exes, friends, breaking laws, and Sea World. The day after Quentin’s dream-come-true day, Margo is gone. At first, no one even worries about it, but as time goes on Quentin becomes worried. Detective Warren

Paper Towns by John Green, is a realistic fiction book. It uses realistic characters that the reader can connect to. Quentin is a regular boy in his senior year of high school, in Orlando, Florida. He has his two best friends, Radar and Ben. They live a pretty average and safe lifestyle. On the other hand, Margo Roth Spiegelman is a popular and rebellious girl in their senior class, who also lives next door to Quentin. Ever since they were young, Quentin has loved Margo, and has idolized her. After they spend one crazy night together, Margo disappears and it is up to Quentin to find her, at least that is what he thinks. The author is trying to get across to the reader, through this story, that what you perceive is not always reality. The characters

Quentin Jacobson or “Q’’ to his friends is the protagonist and narrator of the story Paper Towns. He is an average height boy with a skinny body, black eyes and brown hair. Preparing for his graduation in the upcoming week, he has been secretly in love with his neighbor,