Paper Towns Identity Quotes

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.” is a strong quote written in the book Paper Towns by John Green. Quentin, the shy boy gets the night of a lifetime when Margo his neighbor and easily the most popular girl in their entire high school, finds him late at night to help her in her scheme to prank multiple friends of hers who have betrayed her. Not everything went as Quentin thought though when he awakes the next day to find out that Margo is missing. It is not until then that he realizes the extent to his feeling for her and with the help of a few friends, sets out to follow her hidden clues in order to find the girl of his dreams. When reading the book, you can easily get wrapped up in the words and intensity but within all this chaos the theme of identity shines so brightly. This theme is specifically shown through the moment when Margo claims that she’s not pretty, people’s reactions after she disappears, and Quentin’s attitude towards her disappearance.
Margo starts the beginning of the fourth paragraph off in a way you wouldn’t expect. When her and Quentin are talking about a situation that went down between Margo, her friend Becca, and her boyfriend, he says that she's hotter than Becca without even realizing it. Margo’s response of “That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re
It is shown through the moment when Margo claims that she’s not pretty, people’s reactions after she disappears, and Quentin’s attitude towards her disappearance. The heart wrenching story of Quentin chasing after the lost soul of Margo leaves you with a better understanding of the way our human minds tend to look at people and judge identities, as well as the way we see our own. As the author wrote, “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a