Paper Towns By John Green Essay

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 who had been divorced and committed suicide. We then flash forward to the two as high schoolers who have grown apart. Quentin had spent his life loving Margo and admiring her from afar. Until one day she came back into his life. Margo dresses up in all black, wears black face paint, and shows up at Quentin’s window one night, seeking revenge on all those who have hurt her, and asks for his help. She convinces him to help her and together they go off. The day after they carried out their vengeance, Margo goes missing which is not a surprise because it’s a reoccurring issue. Quentin gets worried when three days pass and she has not returned. He goes into her room and finds poems written by Walt Whitman and posters of Woodie
Not physical strings, but psychological strings that keep us sane at our particular time and place. It is said that when a person’s strings break, they are removed from normalcy and quickly deteriorate. This is what happened to Robert Joyner, the man who committed suicide. Joyner killed himself since he could no longer handle his life after divorce and depression. Margo stated that “Maybe all the strings in him broke.”(Green 8) implying that Joyner was falling apart and finally snapped his strings. This also applies to Margo whose strings had begun to break that very day. From that day on she alienated herself from her friends and family because of her self-inflicted pressure to be “cool and mysterious.” As time went on her strings slowly began to break until finally, in her senior year of high school, she had had enough and needed to escape. And so she