Paper Towns By John Green Essay

Paper Towns a book by John Green is about the journey Quientin a boy in high school goes on to find his missing friend Margo. When Quentin was little he moved to a new home and right across the street was Margo. He always had a crush on her but never told her. Once high school hit Margo basically forgot about Quentin until one night Margo came to his window and asked him for his help to get revenge on people who had treated her poorly. In that single night Quentin had never felt more alive in his life. He felt alive with her. But the next day she was gone. She had vanished. Quentin was vacuous of where she was. He exhorted himself into finding her. With the clues that Margo left behind he goes on a search . with his 3 friends who have a pusillanimous, to find the girl who became a mystery. …show more content…
For example in the Part 1 “The Strings”, Strings are made to hold things together and stay strong and unified. In this section, “ I felt the unbroken line of me and her stretching back from our cribs to the dead guy to acquaintanceship to now. I wanted to tell her the pleasure for me was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.” (Green 78) But on the flip side of this idea, when the strings break, it means they have died or have lost their way. In Part 2, “The Grass”,
Green says that the grass represents that everyone is interconnected in some way, shape or form. Quentin thought “maybe we’re grass, our roots so interdependent that one is dead as long as someone is alive.” (Green 301) It could even represent the clues Margo left for him. He explains, “ The grass got me to you, helped me to imagine you an actual person.” (Green