Song Of Myself Analysis

Paper Towns starts with nine-year-olds Quentin “Q” Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman discover the corpse of Robert Joyner, a soon to be divorced man who committed suicide in the Jefferson Park. Nine years later, Quentin and Margo grew apart from each other considering that they are neighbors. One night, Margo shows up in Quentin’s window with black paint on her face. She asks Quentin to help her that night with eleven missions to get revenge on the people that have hurt her throughout her high school years. She especially needs Quentin's car and assistance driving. Margo convinces Quentin to take his mother’s minivan, sneak out of his home on a school night, and help her seek revenge. Margo takes Quentin to an adventure filled with fish, vandalizing,
Quentin was the last person her parents saw her with when her father found her in Quentin house at night. A private investigator asks some question about where Margo could have run away. He notices a poster of Woody Guthrie taped to her bedroom shades. When her parents left home, Quentin bribes Margo’s sister, so they can investigate her room. The poster leads them to a song called “Walt Whitman’s Niece." The song leads them to a poem called “Song of Myself,” by Walt Whitman. In Margo’s room, there is a copy of the poem with highlighted text. One day, Quentin unhinges his door and finds another clue: an address. The next day, Quentin and his friends skip school and drive to the address left by Margo. When they arrive, they find an abandoned mall. Inside Margo left a message painted in the walls that says, “You will go to the paper towns and you will never come back.” Quentin believes that this is Margo’s way of confirming her suicide while his friends believe it means she was tired of her fake life. Quentin spends a stretch of time looking for more clues with no success. On the day of his graduation, he looks at the map of New York he found in the abandoned