Love And Friendship In Paper Towns By John Green

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Have you ever been in a situation where you get so connected to a person you hardly even know, but once you guys start talking more and more each day you start feeling a certain way towards them? Maybe it’s the way that they make you feel special with each word or phrase they tell you or how nothing else matters in the world when you two are together. Well in the book Paper Towns by John Green it shows exactly that, how two people can be strangers one moment, but in an instant they can both mean so much to each other. Even if these two people are close by or a million miles apart the connection that they both have for eachother will never fade away. Love and friendship has a very strong connection and can be similar in many different ways, …show more content…
In Paper Towns, pg. 3 lines 1-11, “The way I figured it, everyone gets a miracle…. I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.” I suppose that at this moment where Quentin Jacobsen figured out that Margo was going to end up being an important part of his life. Like I have mentioned before it really doesn’t matter how near or far two people are apart what matters is their connection that they have for one another. In page 8, “Margo always loved mysteries… I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.” Nobody knows where she disappeared to, why would she leave without telling anyone? No one really noticed she disappeared except for Quentin. it’s true when they say that the only people that actually truly care about you know when you’re gone physically and mentally. You could easily noticed the attraction Quentin has for Margo, it’s very difficult for some people to understand a connection between two people who really care about each other. This also implies situations that happen a lot in the real world. There are a lot of people who judge a couple or two people that have been best friends for a long period of time, where they start having feelings for each other, it’s at that exact moment where some people don’t agree with the relationship or they start judging them just because they started off as best friends or maybe even when that connection …show more content…
These are things teenagers can base off of everyday life, when you fall in love with your bestfriend. The feelings are truly undescribable it’s hard to even think about yourself, especially when your friends want to know the reason towards why you still talk to that person in whom makes you feel so very special. It gets hard sometimes but just know that the relationship should be between those two people only and not the whole world. “Being someone’s FIRST love is SOMETHING, but being someone’s LAST love is EVERYTHING.” Going from a friendship to a relationship is beyond perfect especially if you were best friends way before the relationship started. It’s unbelievable how all of that works and it can keep going on forever possibly for all eternity. There is no changing a person’s mind about someone they fell in love with, because only that person truly knows what type of person their significant other is and how he/she acts and says. Love is a very powerful thing and it can be a perfect fairy tale or it could go the other way around, but that’s up to the people that are in the

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