Paper Towns Movie Vs Book

I read the book Paper Towns by John Green that was copyrighted in 2004 and watched the movie Paper Towns directed by Jake Schreier that was released in July of 2015. Some of the lead cast members were Cara Delevingne, Nat Wolff, and Justice Smith. In the book, Margo hadn’t talked to Quentin all of high school and she randomly came into his room in the middle of the night wanting him to drive her around. After going on a wild, crazy adventure with Margo, the next day she disappeared and left clues to find her. Quentin spent the last few weeks of high school trying to find Margo and missed graduation in order to do so. Many plot events were important to the story and stayed the same in the movie because of their importance , however in the movie

One example is in the book Quentin and Margo went to “SeaWorld in the middle of the night” but this event did not happen in the movie (Green 68). In the book, Margo and Quentin went to a lot more places on their adventure and did things that were more dangerous. This helped change Quentin because he did things we would never imagine he would do and got out of his comfort zone because, he was so scared about getting in trouble. When they went to SeaWorld Margo got bit by a snake and they got caught, which helped add drama and suspense, that was missing in the movie. This also helped strengthen the relationship between Quentin and Margo because he tried to suck the venom out of her leg when she got bit by a snake. Another event that was different was in the book Quentin took “a pretty long look at the two pseudovisions but didn’t find much” (Green 158). Over the whole course of the book, Quentin went to five other pseudovisions, or abandoned subdivisions in order to find Margo, which didn’t happen in the movie. This shouldn’t have been removed from the movie because it showed how important it was for Quentin to find Margo and how determined he was. He drove hours to find her, skipping school to do so, and school was very important to Quentin, so it shows he truly cared about Margo and wanted to find her. The biggest difference between the

In the book and the movie when Quentin and Margo went on their adventure they went to the top of a very tall building that looked over the city. While they were up there, Margo said “from here, you can’t see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever...You see how fake it all is” and how the city was a paper town (Green 57). When they looked at the city, everything seemed so perfect because you couldn’t see all the flaws from far away, making it look fake. When you are up close, you see all the flaws, but when you are far away you don’t, which shows that things aren’t always how they seem. This event was important to the story because it was the first time Quentin heard the word paper towns, which would help him realize where Margo has been staying while she was missing, and ultimately led Quentin to find Margo. Another way the theme was shown was that Quentin was imagining he would find Margo and be some extravagant event. He thought he would be like a hero and they would go home together and their lives would go back to normal, but that is the complete opposite of what happened. When Quentin asked Margo to come back home, Margo said no and that she would “get sucked right back in” and wouldn’t be stuck there (Green 295). In the book when Quentin found Margo she was really upset and they got into a fight, which was the complete opposite of