Paper Towns John Green Comparison

Paper Towns by John Green, is an adventurous story about a boy searching for his true love. The main character, Quentin Jacobsen, was just a normal boy living a normal life, until he met the love of his life, Margo Roth Spiegelman. One night, Margo shows up at Quentin's window asking for help on her revenge plot for her friends and cheating boyfriend. Quentin agrees and they spend the whole night getting revenge. The next day, Quentin finds out that Margo has gone missing. As he follows her bread crumb trail of clues, he realizes that Margo is not the girl that he always imagined her to be. Quentin, the protagonist of Paper Towns by John Green and I are alike in many ways. We both share the same views of the world, are viewed by the world in similar ways and I would respond in a comparable way to the central conflict of the novel.

Throughout his journey to find Margo, Quentin begins to figure out somethings about the world and other people. As Quentin and his friends are playing a game on their road trip, Quentin thinks, “It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined. I feel like this is an important idea, one of those ideas that your brain must wrap itself around slowly, the way pythons eat,” (257). Quentin says this as a realization that people, other than him, have complex lives of their own. This quote represents the growth that Quentin undergoes throughout the novel. Coming of age is a slow process. This process consist of tiny realizations that gets processed as time goes on. This shows that Quentin has self-knowledge as he learns new things