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How Are Quentin And Miles Alike

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The last book I’ve read is Paper Towns. It is the third book written by John Green. The book was published in 2008. It’s a mystery young adult fiction type of book. The story takes places in Orlando, Florida. Everything starts at a massive subdivision, Jefferson Park. The plot starts with Quentin Jacobsen (Q)-who’s the protagonist- and Margo Roth Spiegelman-the antagonist, even though she’s not a villain type- playing around in a park with their bicycles, when something that would change their friendship happens. They found a cold dead body that terrified them both in different ways. Since that day, they wouldn’t see or talk to each other. Till their last year of high school, everything was usual. Quentin was an average student, while Margo …show more content…

I haven’t read the book yet, but a friend of mine told me about it, plus I’ve heard from other sources-social media-. Looking for Alaska is about a geek teenager named Miles that falls in love with a lovely and social girl whose name is Alaska. I thought about two similarities; one is that both Quentin and Miles are hopelessly in love with a girl that’s out of their reach. And second, both Margo and Alaska disappear, the only difference being is that Margo is alive when they finally found her, but not the same fate goes to …show more content…

There’s identity searching, friendship, false perceptions, exploration, and there might be a few more. Quentin spends almost the whole book obsessing over Margo, having a completely different concept of Margo. Truth is, he didn’t really know the real Margo, and at the end he realizes a lot of things, ending with a whole different point of view. Friendship, we see how strong the relationship between Quentin, Radar, Ben, and Lacey grows as they try to find Margo. There’s quite exploration, in order to find Margo, Quentin had to explore many places to find clues. And Identity searching, I could easily say that Quentin and Margo were both lost. They were lost because they didn’t know what they wanted, Margo ran away, and finally realizing the truth, she did bad on doing that, but it was the only way of getting away, she confessed she didn’t know why, but then it hit her, finally finding her identity. Quentin was blinded by his desperately desire of finding Margo that he lost himself in the process. He had another perspective, he thought he love Margo, and at the end, he also found his identity and he wasn’t blind any more, he saw everything

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