Town

In 2008, author John Green published his book Paper Towns. After reaching number five on the New York Best Times Sellers List and receiving the 2009 Edgar Award for best young adult novel, the Young Adult Book popular amongst the younger generation received it film adaptation on July 24, 2015. Both the book and film center on a group of High school Students who live Florida. The main characters in this story include Quentin Jacobson (protagonist), Margo Roth Speilgleman. From a young age,…

Independent Reading Task Paper Towns by John Green Paper Towns is an award-winning novel by John Green. The novel is a story set in a small town in Orlando, Florida. The story is narrated by and follows the main character, Quentin. As the reader follows Quentin we learn about how he thinks and more importantly how much he likes a certain girl, who he hasn’t spoken to since they were kids. But one night, she leads him on an adventure until dawn and then disappears the next day. The focus of this…

time of Town Criers this was basically 146 BC well into the 18th century. Not much can exactly be said for this. It was a gentleman that would pretty much ring a bell in the village or town square and he would read the current news and events. Well not just read typically he would shout quite loudly. That’s literally it. That honestly makes me wonder why such a normal and easy concept was kept around for so long. The answer is simple, it was cheap and effective. One great example of the town…

Our Town is an interesting play written by Thornton Wilder. At the beginning you are learning about a town and their ways, then at the end you find yourself watching a dead person experiencing life again. The novel is very interesting and keeps your attention throughout it. Our Town is considered a classic. What is a classic, and why is Our Town one? Many people think there are different reasons novels are considered classics, but there is one that stands out. A classic novel is classic because…

Margo Roth Spiegelman was a mystery to Quentin Jacobsen who was completely in love and fascinated with her. Paper Towns is the story of Quentin, finding himself through finding his childhood and high school crush, Margo. He had always loved her because she had something unique and special that he couldn’t find in another girl. When she disappears after a night of pranking that she exclusively invited him to, he goes on a search, following a trail of clues she had left behind. However, some of…

Our Town by Thorton Wilder is a play that revolves around the modern lives of certain families that live in Grover's Corner. Toward the end of the play one of the main characters whose name is Emily, passes away and this leads to the discussion of what the living does and does not understand. When Emily visits the graveyard, she is greeted by Simon and Mrs. Gibbs. Emily is then transported back in time. Emily and Simon believe that the living do not understand what to cherish about life and how…

was a very famous writer in the twentieth century. His works contain writing about the daily routine of life and he uses a Stage Manager. In his play Our Town, he uses these ideas about the Stage Manager and the daily routine of life. The Stage Manager is a big and meaningful role in the play Our Town (Papajewski 4). He is almost like the town of Grover's Corner, beautiful in a unique way, but not amazing (Austell 96). This actor should seem to be laid back and relaxed as the viewers come in…

In the novel Paper Towns, John Green, writes about the friendship of Quentin Jacobsen (a.k.a “Q”) and Margo Spiegelman who end up becoming neighbors in Florida at the age of nine. And they have managed to stay best friends all the way to their last year of high school. One night Margo convinces Q to help her get revenge on the people that have betrayed her. So he helps. The next morning, Q does not find Margo at school and realizes that she has run away. Eventually, Q and his friends are able to…

In Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, the ghost of a young woman relives a day of her own life. She chose a day that was cheerful and somewhat unimportant, expecting to smile at memories of her childhood, but is only depressed by the lack of appreciation for life of all the people in this reconstructed past. “They don’t understand much, do they?” (III.83) If she had chosen another, more important, more joyous day, then would it have been any better? If anything, it likely would have been worse; more…

surrounding salt mines, and began the excavation of the salt dome underneath the town of Grand Saline. With the newly discovered abundance of salt there were plenty of jobs to go around as The Great Depression began to settle upon the market. By the year 1945 there were 950 people employed by the mine in Grand Saline, and that number doesn’t include the transportation jobs that were created by the mine either. The added income in town from the jobs created allowed for the local prices to…