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John Green Paper Towns Essay

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Biography
John Green is a bestselling New York Times author who has written award-winning books such as The Fault in Our Stars, Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns. He has won awards such as the New York Times bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller and he is the Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. Also, Paper Towns was made into a movie in 2014 starring model turned actress Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff.
Summary
Q is in for an unforgettable night when Margo climbs in his window one night and takes him on a remarkable adventure made up of pranks, vandalism, revenge, and SeaWorld. But just when Q thought they were starting to become friends again she disappears. He discovers clues she left behind and thinks she wants him to come and find her. Q and his friends embark on a journey to try and figure out where the love of his life went and why she never said goodbye.
Review
The genre for this book is Mystery, Suspense, and Young Adult. In the first part of the novel, its takes place in Orlando, Florida specifically Jefferson Park (the subdivision they live in), and the outskirts of Orlando. In the second part of the book, their road trip takes them from Orlando, Florida to Agloe, New York. …show more content…

As a teenager, it is surprising to see someone so close in age with me do that much to find someone they did not know anymore. Q has known Margo since he was 2 then in high school they stopped talking, now that they're seniors they reconnected. So in Q's mind, he sees only what he wants to see in Margo and not who she really is. He was more in love with the idea of Margo then who she actually was. He realizes this here "The fundamental mistake I had always made—and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make—was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl."(Green,

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