Paper Towns Book Report

Paper Towns is a book about Q (Quentin) Jacobsen and his internal conflicts that centers on the perception of his childhood love, Margo Roth Speigelman, and the differences between appearances and reality. He’s been in love with her as long as he can remember. So when Margo suddenly shows up at his window in the middle of the night and asks for his assistance in playing pranks on everyone that has hurt her, you can only imagine that he would say yes. The duo travel to Margo’s ex-best friend’s house, where Margo’s boyfriend is cheating on her, and then to her boyfriend’s house to get revenge. They also stop at an old bully’s house and break into SeaWorld. At the end of the night, Margo hugs Quentin and tells him: “I will miss hanging out with you”.

The next day at school, Q is hardly surprised when Margo doesn’t show up for school, but after that no one see’s her for days. That’s when Quentin starts to worry. Q and his friends Radar and Ben begin searching for the clues Margo had apparently left for Q. Those clues include a poster on her window, parts of a poem, and an abandoned minimal where she wrote stories from her childhood and explored. Based on the clues Margo left behind, Q believes that Margo has killed herself, but then they find one clue that will change everything: a comment on Omnictionary page about Agloe, New York with a very unique usage of capitalization that could only belong to Margo. Quentin and his 3 friends decide the morning of graduation to drive to New York so they can find Margo. Their parents are furious they are going to miss graduation, but they don’t care. After a 20+ trip, they arrive to where Margo is in just the brink of time. There, she explains to Quentin how she always hated Florida, and she planned to leave after graduation anyway. However, after finding out about her boyfriend, she carried out her plans a couple of weeks