Paper Towns by John Green

                       Paper Towns by the spectacular John Green, is a metaphorical book with so many hidden themes. It starts off with a boy named Quentin Jacobsen, who lives across the street from the legend known as Margo Roth Spiegelman. Quentin never really spent much time with Margo in High-School, but one night, everything changed for him, with the help of the rebellious, and adventurous girl he only dreamt of. They started off their adventure with eleven long steps which included rule breaking, humiliation, and revenge towards Margo's and Quentin's formal friends. Although Quentin  did not agree on everything Margo suggested, he knew that he was a different person because of her. But there was a twist to this adventure, because the next day, Margo Roth Spiegelman was gone. She just disappeared in the middle of the night, and was not found the next day, which confused her parents, and Quentin. Although she is gone, Margo has a history of leaving very complex clues to where she went, that annoy her parents very much. But this time, these clues were left for Quentin , and it is up to him to solve the clues, and seek out Margo.

                        Although I am only less than halfway through with Paper Towns, I already feel a deep connection between Margo and Quentin. Margo is almost the exact opposite from Quentin, yet she can make him into an adventurous and rebellious person, with just one night, which makes their friendship special.  If i were put into Quentin's shoes, I would have never trusted Margo, but without the willing trust that Quentin gave her, I don't think that their relationship would have clicked as easily as it did. "I stood up and reached out my hand and said, 'May I have this dance?' Margo curtsied, gave me her hand, and said, 'You may,' and then my hand was on the curve between her waist and her hip, and her hand was on my shoulder. And then step-step-sidestep, step-step-sidestep. We fox-trotted all the way around the seal tank , and still the song kept going on about the stars falling. 'Sixth-grade slow dance,' Margo announced, and we switched positions, her hands on my shoulders and mine on her hips, elbows locked, two feet between us. And then we fox-trotted some more until the song ended. I stepped forward and dipped Margo, just as they'd taught us to do at Crown School of Dance. She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall" (Green, 79). This quote displays the best example of trust between Margo and Quentin because it shows that Margo trusts Quentin to not drop her or to move the right way in the dance, and she wants him to feel the same.

                       Mystery and trust are the current topics in Paper Towns because of the relationship between the two dynamic characters, the average Quentin Jacobsen, and the mystery of Margo Roth Spiegelman. I believe that John Green is attempting to hide multiple themes with each scene of the book because with each scene, I feel that a character learns a lesson or is too late to learn it, in Quentin's case. Margo tried to warn him the morning before she went missing, and Quentin was too exhausted to realize it, making him a major part of Margo's whereabouts. As I continue to read, I realize more and more of how amazingly intricate John Green's writing is, and how one detail can make up his entire message or plot line. I am really enjoying this novel and can't wait to see the secrets that Quentin unfolds regarding Margo.

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