The same story can be told hundreds of different times, and hundreds of different ways, all because of the way we interpret it. John Green’s “Paper Towns” was an extraordinary tale of the popular girl and nerdy boy going on an exciting adventure and falling in love. The story takes you into the interesting thoughts of Margo, and Quentin gets wrapped up in it. The book was lat-er transformed into a movie where we get to see the story from a similar, but somewhat different perspective. Both versions of the plot are great, but which one truly prevails, and portrays the best version of the story? In both formats of “Paper Towns”, the mysterious Margo Roth Speigelman is seen from the eyes of Quentin Jacobsen. In his perspective Margo is utter perfection, and he describes her as this popular girl that everyone loves. Each story depicts Quentin’s first encounter with Margo, when she first moved in next store. The book takes a more serious route, while the movie made it almost comical. At times we see Margo’s personality getting lost in the persona that Quentin made up in his mind, but this happens even more so in the book, because we are left to picture their mannerisms. One …show more content…
One major difference in the plot is the duos trip to Sea World in the middle of the night, which only took place in the book. There were many tasks Margo had to complete before she could run away, and in the book she wanted to break in to Sea World because it was the only theme park that she hadn’t broken into. A snake, while in the park even bites her, and Q ends having to suck out the poison, all of which was skipped over in the movie. We do experience the two getting revenge on all the people who did Margo wrong, and it has a very similar tone to the book. Their wild adventure in the movie was very close to the books story, even though there was a large piece