The world is made up of opposites and differences. In the novel paper towns by john green, the use of opposites helped me to understand the themes: appearance can be deceiving, the importance of identity and the bad affects of obsession this is shown through a variety of quotes in the text.
A quote from the book that shows appearance can be deceiving is when Q is in Margo’s room looking for clues that link to where she is, he then finds her music collection and says “But I was distracted by Margo’s music collection. She liked everything I could have never imagined her listening to all these records.” This shows how much q doesn’t actually know Margo he has built this image of her in his mind of how he wants her to be and is surprised when
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At one point in the text Margo tells q everything uglier up close” by saying this she’s trying to tell Q that she is not everything that he thinks she is. She furthers this by also saying “from here, you can’t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is.” This scene in paper towns shows us the obsession Q has for Margo. He has built the image of a perfect girl, and insists upon only seeing her, and not the way she is in reality. We see this through different scenes where he defends Margo, not allowing others to taint his image of her, and when margo says that everything is uglier up close, he says “not you”. Q’s obsession distorts his ability to see reality. This is one of the downsides to obsession. Q’s obsession distorts his ability to see reality, this is a downside to obsession, and offers a lesson to teenage readers about the importance of seeing past the perfect images of people we can make in our minds of people we care about. The novel paper towns teach us that everyone has flaws. in conclusion paper towns teaches us about fake images of people, and how important identity really is. And the importance of knowing that everyone is human and everyone has flaws. It also teaches us