Paper Towns: A Literary Analysis

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In the book Paper Towns, a new plot develops from the original one; Quentin Jacobson who wanted to save Margo, who ran away from home. After the gang of friends drove for many hours to Agloe, they finally find Margo with “her lips chapped to cracking, makeup-less, dirt in her fingernails, [and] her eyes silent” (Green 281). Margo was writing in a simple cubicle when she saw Lacey, Ben, and Radar. She even scared them into running back into their car. Margo later screamed at Quentin for not “[coming to Agloe] to make sure [that she] was okay” and that he only “came [there] because [he] wanted to save poor little Margo from her troubled little self” (Green 284). The only reason Quentin went after Margo was because he had a massive crush on her

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