Paper Towns John Green

The book Paper Towns by John Green begins with young Quentin “Q” Jacobsen and Margo Roth Speigelman who live in the subdivision Jefferson Park which is part of Orlando Florida. They’re neighbors and are also very good friends. The book starts out with them going to the park where they find a dead man who has shot himself. After they leave the park and get back home, the novel moves forward in time to when they are in high school. Q and Margo have grown apart and do not talk much anymore. One random night, Margo appears in Q’s window and she asks him to sneak out with her to get revenge on people that haven’t been nice to her. They set out on this adventure in the middle of the night. Quentin and Margo first go to a girl named Becca’s house. …show more content…
After she is missing for 3 days, Quentin finds out she has run away. Q notices a poster on the back of her shades, which then leads him to a book that has different highlighted clues in it of where she could be. Quentin continues to look for clues and finds a slip of paper with an address on it. Quentin, his best friends named Radar and Ben, and Lacey decide to skip school the next day to look for her at the address on the paper. They find clues in an abandoned mini-mall that tell them that they will find her body, which leads them to think she committed suicide. Quentin and his friends search all over Florida for Margo. Q then matches up a map he was using to find her with holes made by tacks at the mini-mall. Quentin then discovers that she is hiding in New York. Lacey, Ben, Radar and Quentin skip their graduation to drive to New York to find Margo. The drive takes almost 24 hours and after searching in Roscoe, New York, they finally find Margo in an old barn and find out that she didn’t mean to leave the clues for them. They are all very surprised when Margo is upset that they found