This book can be read in less than a day. It isn’t until graduation day that he is brought to a long-awaited conclusion. Leaving an elaborate set of clues in her wake, like a book of poems with specific highlighted lines, Quentin is lead to several unfinished or failed subdivisions, turning up nothing. The next day, when Margo doesn’t show up to school, her parents quickly come to the conclusion that she had run away. However, the adventure doesn’t stop there. When Margo randomly knocks on his window one night, throwing Quentin into an elaborate 11-step plan to plot revenge on those who wronged her involving leaving catfish in their cars and houses and spray-painting a blue “M” in their wake, he realizes the feelings he has for her are false by educating him on the meaning of “paper towns.”
#Real paper towns update
Margo becomes infatuated with the investigation of the strange man, and would appear at his window in the middle of the night to update him on her discoveries.Įver since then, Quentin has thought he was in love with Margo, while he discovers he was only in love with the idea of her: he had “paper” feelings for her, loving what he saw and fabricating what he didn’t. Green begins the novel with the story of an extremely scarring and important event: when Margo and Quentin find an unknown dead man in their neighborhood park. In his third young adult novel, “Paper Towns,” John Green, the author of “The Fault in Our Stars,” writes about the “paper” feelings that main character Quentin Jacobson has towards his lifelong (but not close) friend Margo Roth Spiegelman. Paper town (n): a town that is flimsy and planned subdivisions that were started and then abandoned, exist on paper but not entirely in real life a cartographic trick where mapmakers will include fake places onto their maps to make sure no one is copying them.