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Rising Action In Quentin's 'Paper Town'

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3. In terms of rising action, climax, and falling action, describe the structure of the plot, stating when the action stops rising and reaches a climax and begins to fall. Rising Action: It started one night when Margo sneaks into Quentin’s room. Since then, Quentin follows Margo on her adventurous mission for revenge of her boyfriend cheating. The two (Quentin and Margo) get closer which makes Quentin to feel like he is going to be close friends with her since that day. However, Margo goes missing the next day, leaving only few clues for Quentin to search for herself. Climax: Quentin with his friends, Ben and Radar, find few clues at Margo’s room when her parents are out. At her room they find Walt Whitman’s book, Leaves of Grass, and …show more content…

Since when they are at the top of SunTrust Building Margo once mentioned the term paper town “It’s a paper town. Look at it, all those paper houses and paper streets and the people too.” She meant that the people only care about things that concern them blocking out everything else. A “Paper Town” refers to a fake town on a map created by cartographers to defer copyright infringement. Fictitious entries on maps may also be called phantom settlements, trap streets, cartographer’s follies, or other names. They are all intended to serve as traps for identifying copyright …show more content…

From the beginning it is shown the fun and excitement in having friend/s which is clearly shown during the childhood of Margo and Quentin, and with Quentin and his friend Ben and Radar. As the story continue the characters are starting to choose the route that they will take, this can also be called “decision making”. It is obvious that Margo, a mysterious girl with the kink on mysterious events and Quentin, a teen who prefer not to get in trouble most of the time, took different route in life. Margo then make Quentin realized that living in the comfort zone is nothing compare to exploring what’s outside. Margo used to leave clues every time she left, and not every clues are meant to be solve some clues are merely note saying not to

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