Who Is The Real Margo?

“Who is the real Margo?” (Green 226). Quentin Q. Jacobsen, The narrator of Paper Towns by John Green, is a boy counting down the days left in high school, then suddenly found himself away from his routine, pondering on this question, Because of one night, Quentin’s life was changed when his neighbor and his childhood crush Margo Roth Spiegelman opened his window and entered his life, then vanishes the next day, leaving clues for Quentin to follow. Searching for fragments on a shattered road, the more he reveals, the more Quentin realizes that Margo Roth Spiegelman, was not the girl he thought he knew.
When Quentin thought about Margo in the beginning of the story, his mind creates an image like: “Margo Roth Spiegelman, whose six-syllable name
In the process of searching for these clues, Quentin finds that the perfect image he had assumed for Margo all this time was incorrect by analyzing the clues Margo left for him. “Margo herself was—at least part of the time—very unMargo” (Green 169). Quentin tries to understand Margo Roth Spiegelman through the maze of clues she has left for him, but he could comprehend, because he haven’t truly abandoned the idea of perfection he has for her, as he gets closer and closer toward fitting all the pieces of the puzzle, he noticed that he had been imagining the untrue image of her this whole time, along with his peers as well, That is when he realized the untrue image he had for other people all this time, his friends, the popular kids at school, and the bullies too. Just like what Margo said: “Isn’t it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.” (Green 48). This is when Quentin realized the wrongful image he had for Margo all along; that he liked the imagined “idea” of Margo more than her