Paper Towns By John Green Essay

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Human connection is the most basic foundation of our world, but with all the suffering around us it is hard not to question if we really do share a bond. In the novel Paper Towns by John Green, the main characters go on a quest to find Margo Roth Spiegelman, but end up finding themselves instead. There are a lot of metaphors in the book to describe human connections as Quentin says himself “Maybe our strings break or maybe we’re grass our roots so interconnected we can not only understand each other but become one another. We don’t suffer from a shortage of Metaphors is what i mean.(Green) Looking at the journey of each individual character in the book i have come to the conclusion that humans are most definitely connected in someway with…show more content…
The more unsettled the people around you are the more you suffer. Margo, Quentin, Lacey,Ben and Radar all live in the same town, went to the same school. “All these paper people living in their paper houses” (Green) People in Orlando were generic, so how did it happen that these five teenagers who all had very similar lives to begin with ended in such different destinations and through various different journeys. They all began with a web of connection. Margo let hers fall apart, while Quentin shortened his, Lacey expanded hers and Radar and Ben tightened theirs. Human connection is the base for our survival and to let it fall apart is dangerous. “All the string inside him broke”(Green) “It was a lame string but it was the one i had and every paper girl need at least one string”(Green). This proves how even Margo had connections she loved and wanted to be loved. Sometimes people need to restart building their webs. It’s not because they didn’t have connections and relationships or because those relationships weren’t worth being. People need a fresh start because the relationships they restricted them instead of encouraging them and those when people are held back from finding themselves they will cut
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