Paper Towns Character Analysis Essay

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Payton Ray-Conklin
Mr.Hyde
English II Pre-AP, Period 1
7 March 2016

Paper Towns by John Green
SETTING:
The main setting of Paper Towns takes place in the suburbs of Orlando, Florida. It also takes place in the neighborhood where the two main characters, Quentin and Margo, have lived their whole lives. Another major setting of the story takes place on the “mission” Margo takes Quentin on. The setting throughout the story changes extremely, but Orlando is the origin of story; however, the setting changes extremely when Margo disappears to Agloe, New York.
PLOT:
The Story is filled with an extreme amount of adventure; however, the main event is when Margo disappears from her hometown, Orlando, Florida to live in Agloe, New York. Margo leaves behind many clues for Quentin and his friends to lead them to where she is. Quentin …show more content…

Quentin Jacobsen: He is the main character. He is very shy, he lives a very uneventful life, and is just an average shy high school boy. He wants a eventful life, but doesn’t know how to have one. He is a very realistic character in comparison to some of the other characters in the story, but in the story i think Quentin was the character who changed the most. He went out of his comfort zone and started having an eventful life to find a girl. He started doing things he never imagined he would ever do and I believe he starts to grow as a person the more life he experiences.
Margo Roth Spiegelman: She is the most vivid character of the story, because of her intense actions and mysteriousness. She likes to be secretive, leaves people unaware of what she is capable of, adventurous, and mysterious. Margo is portrayed as the popular, one of the most attractive girls in her school, and is admired by especially by Quentin. I believe in this story Margo doesn’t change much, but she stays the most mysterious character throughout the entire story.

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