Quentin Jacobsen knows Margo Roth Spiegelman since childhood. But as it is precisely when children grow up, they have lived over the years apart. More surprised is Quentin, as Margo one evening at his window and knocks him like a ninja dressed abducted to a wild trip. You will experience a magical night and Quentin hopes that he now comes back Margo closer, but the next morning she disappeared. Initially, no one thinks something, because earlier they burned many a time just for a few days by. But this time it's different. Margo left instructions that are clearly intended for Quentin. He follows their trail of breadcrumbs and examined the girl who he has known since his childhood. But the more he progresses, the clearer it is to him that at the end of this track is a completely different person who might not waiting for him.
I found Paper Towns surprisingly profound. I had not expected that John Green deals with the tension between the reality and the illusion of a person, but that's what I think. Quentin had has this idealistic image of Margo that he cherished for years, maintained and enhanced. Over the scavenger hunt, however, he recognizes that it is also exactly was precisely: an image in two dimensions and with no real depth. Through their notes Margo tells him a lot about your true personality, which has only partly to do with the facade that they maintained carefully. It is amazing that Quentin learns in this way not only a lot about Margo, but also about yourself. Without knowing it at first, he embarks on a transformative journey. I think it's the whole book about unaware that Margo in a way, is only a deputy. Yes, he is looking for it, but actually he is looking for himself and with each step toward the real Margo he himself is a bit real. This self-discovery process is in my view the reason why Quentin quite obsessive behavior at a certain point. John Green has this fixation worked out wonderfully by used a literary parable. It is certainly not a coincidence that Quentin just read Moby Dick in the classroom because he has much in common with Captain Ahab. Margo, however, has to reflect a weakness for the poetry of Walt Whitman, which made me to think about how they will be represented by his works, while she herself is absent. I believe it is not about a particular poem, which Quentin is convinced, but rather to post Whitman's way. The wide room for interpretation, he lets his readers.
I still noticed another point which I think is a literary parable. Quentin's English teacher is Dr. Holden. It rings because with you? Holden. As Holden Caulfield in. The Catcher in the Rye. One of the most popular approaches analysis assumes that this book by JD Salinger is primarily a critique of American society and the idea of the American dream. In Paper Towns is Margo, which expresses a similar criticism; she finds life in the epitome of the American dream as the suburban flat and colorless. It is extremely interesting to note that Dr. Holden is the one that Quentin helps to interpret Whitman's poem Song of Myself and it thus gives the key to the understanding of Margo. This can not be a coincidence. Good writers do not happen to you just like that. I do not think John Green has stumbled by accident on this name.
I really enjoyed the John Green reading week with the reading of Paper Towns. There was a lot of fun to go with Quentin on the journey; find out what it means to know another person truly and what is necessary for it. I never thought that I expected so much profundity, supported by figures, which are not only sympathetic, but I also rapidly grew fond. It has amazed me that John Green is not just hypothetical writes about the facets and to live out of a personality, but his ideas also including transfers to his characters. They are all alive and believable.
I do not understand why Paper Towns John Green of many fans arriving less good, because I thought it was great. I just had a look behind the facade throw.
