Paper Towns Themes

#1. Paper Towns is the story of two childhood best friends, Margo Roth Spiegelman and Quentin Jacobsen. The readers are immediately drawn into the story and discovering Quentin’s secret love for Margo. In the prologue, the two of them find a dead body in the park. They may not realize this at the time however this event truly binds them together but uncovers a part of Margo, Quentin has never seen before. Her dark yet mysterious side. Part one of the book starts off by explaining the main setting of the book: Orlando Florida. At this time Margo and Quentin are in their last year of high school. Quentin’s nerdy best friends Ben and Radar and introduced into the story. On the contrary Margo is the most popular girl in school, has many friends, and is most known for her hilarious pranks. Margo never pays attention to Quentin, despite that Quentin is still secretly in love with her. One night, Margo sneaks into Quentin’s bedroom and wants him to help her execute an overnight plan. The plan involves revenge on lying cheating ex boyfriends as well as deceiving best friends. They also sneak into Sea World, and a Sun Trust bank. Margo
This theme is shown through many of the characters. Margo expresses this theme as she doesn’t care if she has to leave everything behind, she knows that she doesn’t want to be stuck in Orlando for the rest of her life because she hates it there. She knew she had to just leave everything all at once of she might not be able to do it. Ben also proves that he will chase after what he wants, by not giving up on trying to get a date with Lacey. He knew it would be risky and he knew he may get made fun of, but it’s what he wanted to he didn’t worry about anyone else.Finally, Quentin leaves his family and friends at his graduation, he misses his graduation, in order to find Margo because that is what he wanted out of life in that