Paper Towns By John Green

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The book Paper Towns by John Green starts with the two main characters in a flashback, nine-year-olds Quentin Jacobsen and Margo Spiegelman discovering the corpse of Robert Joyner, a soon to be divorced man who had committed suicide in their towns Jefferson Park.
Flashforward nine years later, Quentin and Margo had grown apart from each other growing up in dissimilar fashions. One night, however, Margo shows up in Quentin’s window with black paint spread across her face. She then proceeds to ask Quentin to help her that night with eleven missions regarding those she plans to get revenge on, the individuals that have mentally hurt her throughout her high school years.The reason she chooses Quintin is that of the accessibility to a car, her …show more content…

After her eleven trials are completed, they return home and Quentin fosters a sense gladness and excitement that he is back to being friends with Margo. The next ongoing days, Margo never shows up to school, turning up as missing to her parents. Because Margo had already run away from home, her parents remain worry-free, expecting her to come back after she has run out of public attention. Quentin turns out as the last person Margo had seen before she left, suspect to that of Margo’s parents. A private investigator hired by her parents goes on to ask Quentin some questions about where Margo could have run off …show more content…

However, on the day of his graduation, he looks at the map of New York he found in the abandoned mall. In the map, there are pinholes, one placed in a town called Agloe, New York. He looks up Agloe on the Internet and finds that it is a copyright trap or “paper town”, and that its population rose up from zero to one up on May twenty-ninth. Quentin, Ben, Lacey, and Radar, his loyal friends, skip their graduation to drive to New York to find Margo, as Quentin has a very strong hunch that she is there. In order to return in time for graduation, they must make their travels less than one

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