Paper Towns By Quentin Jacobsen

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Quentin Jacobsen, a protagonist of Paper towns is a slightly built teenager, he works hard to try to graduate from high school. Quentin is 18 years old and his friend call him “Q” which is short for Quentin. Quentin study’s hard, gets good grade, and he focuses on going to college. He’s the one that is scared most of the time and runs away from stuff that scares him.
Quentin often does the opposite of what he says, making him seem hypocritical at times. Sometimes when something doesn’t go right like he thought then he gets selfish. Quentin never gives up and when he thinks somethings happened to Margo then he goes and searches for her. Quentins parents are therapist so his life with his parents is peaceful.
Quentin never gets into trouble

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