For my second book analysis I decided to read the book “Paper Towns” by John Green which has 305 pages and I chose it because I love John Greens books and how he manages to always put a deeper meaning in his stories. Since the story got interesting pretty soon after I started reading it, it barely took me one week to finish reading it.
The book explains the relationship between Quentin Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman and especially focuses on Quentin´s feelings. Since they drifted apart from being childhood best friends to strangers, Quentin has always loved Margo and he admired her from afar. He saw her as the fierce and strong girl and pictured her together, how he thought she would be. He loved her for his idea of who she was and not
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She was sick of it and when it finally gets too much she decides to run off, away from the “paper towns” which is her label for cities. She says everything is so fake and the longer you try to understand her point of view the clearer you can see it. A lot of our relationships are fake and we only do it for popularity.
If I were in Quentin´s situation where I had a clue from the girl I loved to where she ran away, I would´ve done the same as him. No doubt. He worries about her and follows her weird clues and finds her even when she never intended for him to find her. She never intended to be found by anyone. But Quentin was so desperate that he went above and beyond to just find her. Her clues only were meant to lead him to an abandoned house and it should´ve stopped there, but he searched and searched and searched until he found the next clue, which she unknowingly left behind. I would have done the same as Quentin. If I really would have thought the person was worth it and I loved the person, I would have searched and looked for him the same as Quentin did for Margo. He could have never imagined that Margo Roth Spiegelman was not the girl he expected her to