Book Report Project in English By Claire Andrea Pascual – III-Arezzo Title: Paper Towns Author: John Green Genre: Young adult novel, mystery Characters: 1. ) Quentin “Q” Jacobsen – He is the protagonist and the one who is telling the story. He is childhood friends and...
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In the novel Paper Towns by John Green, Quentin Jacobsen is a senior in high school who is on a mission to rescue his runaway love and neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman. As children Margo and Quentin were inseparable, everything they did they did together. Margo and Quentin formed a bond that seemed...
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Paper Towns, by John Green is a young adult novel that takes place in a town called Jefferson Park located in Orlando, Florida. The novel starts with Quentin Jacobsen and his neighbor/crush, Margo Spiegelman, both nine years old, going to the park. There, they discover the corpse of Robert Joyner...
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This alarming number shows that drinking as well as binge drinking on campuses is overly common. There has been an increase in the quantity as well as the frequency of alcohol intake. “Statistics Canada data on sales of alcoholic beverages (in litres of absolute alcohol) show that per adult...
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?Dear Diary, This week has been a total rollercoaster. I still haven’t officially found Margo but I’m getting closer and closer. After following all her clues, looking through all the abandoned subdivisions in Florida and doing my best to understand her I pretty much came up with nothing at first...
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Paper Towns by John Green Ever since Quentin Jacobs has known his adventurous and childhood friend, Margo Roth Spiegelman, he has been madly in love with her. After splitting apart during high school, Q finds her cracking open his window one night seeking for his assistance for an ingenious...
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? Characters: How can you identify with the characters you have met? How did the characters’ decisions surprise you? Did you agree with these decisions? Why or why not? •Quentin Jacobsen or Q oMain character oHigh school senior oNarrator (tells the story from his perspective) oGrew up with Margo...
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?Paper Towns by John Green Essay Quentin and Margo meet at a random night when Margo sneaks into Quentin’s room. Since then, Quentin follows Margo on her adventurous mission for revenge of her boy friend cheating. Quentin and Margo get closer which makes Quentin to feel like he is going to be...
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[trx_quote title="John Green" top="inherit" bottom="inherit" left="inherit" right="inherit"]"That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste."[/trx_quote] [trx_quote...
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I believe that Paper Towns is a book that allows the reader to get wrapped in to the mystery of things or idea of something, and still maintains an optimistic and light-hearted tone, in my opinion is a good book. In the book Paper Towns by John Green the author allows the reader to do just that...
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A book that allows the reader to get wrapped in to the mystery of things or idea of something, and still maintains an optimistic and light-hearted tone, in my opinion is a good book. In the novel Paper Towns by John Green the author allows the reader to do just that. Quentin Jacobsen is a...
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Identity The theme of identity is probably the major theme of John Green’s novel. This theme revolves around Margo Roth Spiegelman: even her surname is a charactonym that can be translated as “mirror man” from German. She perceives people as paper dolls living their paper lives and, after...
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“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.” — — “That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.” — Page 229 — “It is so hard to...
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John Green’s Paper Towns is a coming-of-age story that follows the lives of two childhood friends, the reserved Quentin Jacobsen and the legendary Margo Roth Spiegelman. Quentin says that every human being is graced with one miracle in their lifetime. His miracle is living next door to Margo Roth...
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Quentin Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman are next door neighbors and have been friends since childhood. Quentin describes Margo as “the most fantastically gorgeous creature that God had ever created (4). ” Quentin is both the novel’s narrator and protagonist, and recounts a time when he and...
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Quentin is a senior at Winter Park High School in Orlando, FL. He has woken up late on Wednesday morning, and his mother has to drive him to school instead of him catching a ride with his friends. She talks to him about prom and school on the ride over, though Quentin does not believe in prom...
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Quentin walks over to his bedroom window. Margo is standing there dressed in black and wearing black face paint. She tells Quentin that she needs to borrow his car, which is actually his mother’s minivan. When Quentin says no and reminds her that she has her own car, Margo tells him that her...
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Margo gives Quentin a list of items to buy in Publix and one of the hundred-dollar bills. The list is random, and includes three catfish, a dozen tulips, a can of blue spray paint, and hair-removal cream. What really catches Quentin’s eye, however, is Margo’s random capitalization. Margo tells him...
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The prologue and the first few chapters introduce the relationship between two teenagers, Margo Roth Spiegelman and Quentin Jacobsen. They both witnessed a traumatic event when they were nine-years-old, and though their friendship has cooled over the years, the memory of that day still seems to be...
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As Quentin and Margo drive through the night, Quentin takes note of the streetlights and quotes T. S. Eliot. Margo loves the quote, but is disappointed to find that Quentin did not make it up himself. As they continue talking, Margo finally reveals that Jase has been cheating on her with Becca...
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