John Greene Paper Towns Essay

Paper towns, written by John Greene, is a fictional teen novel full of action, suspense, and many meaningful metaphors about life. It starts off with a recollection of Quentin Jacobsen’s childhood and one particular memory that will reappear throughout the whole story. It is anything but an average day for young, innocent Quentin and his life long crush, Margo Roth Spiegelman. After riding their bikes to the local playground, Margo noticed something that would have been quite traumatizing for any other nine year old, but it intrigued her. She stood right above a dead man, right in the middle of the park, right in the little ordinary subdivision of Jefferson park in Orlando, Florida. Nine years later, Margo and Quentin are both seniors in highschool and have both drifted apart drastically since that day. They’re both into their own separate social groups and Margo has a boyfriend. With prom coming up, Quentin and his friends are still lacking dates. However,

This kind of disappointed Quentin. When he returns home, he finds his parents sitting with the Spiegelmans along with a cop. They tell him that Margo is not only missing from school, but she is missing from home, too. She hasn’t been seen since the night before. This wouldn’t be the first time she disappeared without warning or reasoning, though. Margo’s parents explain to him that she has left clues before about her trips away, but they “never lead to anywhere”. This only enhances Quentin’s determination to find her even more.
He starts the investigation almost right away. It all started when he noticed a poster hanging from Margo’s window that wasn’t there before. So, he goes to hunt for more clues at her house, taking Ben and Radar with him. Surprisingly, they find quite a few clues. Eventually, they find a poetry book that they think they have to encode. However, like the Spiegelmans said before, the clues aren’t really enough to lead