What Is The Mystery Of The Book Paper Towns

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Paper Towns is a book written by John Green. Its main characters are Quentin Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman. I chose this book because I like love and mystery books. The story of love, which exists between Quentin and Margo, is really interesting. Quentin loves Margo since they were children and this is a platonic love. In some parts of the book, Quentin started to think that Margo loves him, but this is only a thought of Quentin, because she does not make it clear. If she loves him is one of the mysteries of the book because the reader only discover it at the end. The whole story is a treasure hunt to discover if Margo really loves Quentin.
The second mystery of the book is where Margo is. One night, Margo decides that Quentin must help her to take revenge of her ex-boyfriend because he betrayed her. That night, Quentin reenergized the love he feels for Margo. The next day,
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Some of the most important translation problems are the recipients (mainly teenagers and young adults) and cultural references such as the names of the character or the names of the places. There is also a great text-specific problem, the translation of Omnidictionary. The last translation problem is the title of the book. The title refers to one of the “paper towns” where Margo was hidden, “Agloe”. A paper town is a copyright trap in the paper maps.
I think that I would use a foreignization strategy because it is so difficult to translate all the names and transfer all the cultural references into Spanish. Besides, the full story occurs in America and the cities mentioned are known around the world.
I would like to translate into English El asesinato de la profesora de lengua. It is a young literature book written by Jordi Sierra i Fabra. I would like to translate it because it has many word games and they are very funny to

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