Paper Towns

Small Town Who wants to wake to the sound of car horns, jackhammers, and all the different sounds of a city that truly never sleeps? Who wants to sit in traffic for over an hour just to move a mile every 5 minutes? When you’re living in a small town, you are never stuck in traffic or woken up by construction; you might wake up from the train though! Small towns offer hospitality, which is helpful when you are in need of assistance or any type of help and you often know who moves into the town…

A big change in my life was me moving from a city where I was raised to a small town where I have never lived before besides when I was a baby. I had lived in California since I was a baby, I grew up in California. In California is were I was raised, it was a big city with many different towns that were only like ten to fifteen minutes away. I had fit so good there, I had my family and my friends that I grew up with and even a sport I was actually good at that I played in since I was 4 years old…

Within John Green’s, Paper Towns, the theme of veiled identity is enigmatically examined as five teenagers struggle to find themselves as well as the real Margo Roth Spiegelman, a “daring” and unequivocal “adventure” of a person. Delving into the catacombs of individuality, Quentin, or Q, a studious and plain young man, finds that an identity can easily be painted over, but this facade can never truly hide the underlying veracity…

need to be who everyone expects them to be. From this point onwards they are considered as adults and they can finally choose which direction they want to take in their life’s’. Margo’s wish is to travel the world and no longer be known as the fake “paper girl” which she was in…

life and yes I know who you are”- unknown. This quote pertains to Margo because she hates fake people and the society she lives in. Margo wishes that people would not care about what other people say about them and act like who they really are. In Paper Towns, by John Green, the characters Q, Ben, Radar, and Lacey journey on an adventure to find their friend, Margo, who ran away. On their travels, they slowly uncover Margo’s real personality. John Green uses tone, theme, metaphors and other…

One person can have a profound effect on another person’s life. In John Green’s Paper Towns, Quentin Jacobsen has lived most of his life loving Margo Roth Spiegelman, from a distance. Margo is the kind of person that seems too good to be true, a wonder who spends her life in constant excitement and adventure. So when one night she crawls in through his window late at night summoning him out on an eleven part plot of revenge, he follows. Throughout the book, Margo becomes responsible for pulling…

identified as Margo Roth Spiegelman. Police are not classifying this case as a missing minor because she is 18 years of age and technically an adult. Detective Otis Warren also says that her age gives her the right to leave home. Margo is known to leave town for awhile and return. She leaves clues for her family to ensure them she is not in danger. Mr. and Mrs. Spiegelman have not received any clues as to her whereabouts. Quentin Jacobsen is the last known person to have spoken to Margo before…

Paper Towns is the story of a boy named Quentin Jacobsen and the adventure he is drawn into by his childhood friend and secret love Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children, Quentin and Margo discovered a dead man's body; an event that binds them in ways they do not realize. As they grow up however, they grow apart. After this is explained in the prologue, Part I of the book sets up the main narrative by introducing the setting, Jefferson High in Orlando, Florida in the early 2000s and introduces…

As the town’s people assimilate, the author mentions several families by name showing that the entire town is gathering. Every member of every house comes to the ceremony –children included. The readers see the first foreshadowing of darkness when the children gather pebbles and rocks into piles. As the short story progresses, Jackson narrows in on one…

The Lottery Plot June 27 arrived in the form of a bright morning; sunlight bringing out the vivid colors of the flowers and the grass, and heralding in a day of longstanding tradition in a rural town. On this morning, the annual lottery was to be held. Townspeople gathered together, socializing, sharing stories, remarking on the day’s work and last year’s lottery as children played and gathered stones into a pile. They took time each year to participate in this time-honored tradition, but not…