“It’s a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all these cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.” (Green Pg. 57) “Paper Towns”, by John Green, is a novel about a boy named Quentin Jacobson, who has spent a life time loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar, so when she cracks open a window into his life, he follows. John Green
your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste” (Green 37). That is just one gem of a quote from the young adult novel Paper Towns by John Green. It’s too bad that it didn’t make it into the movie adaptation. In fact, lots of things didn’t quite make it to the big screen. Movie adaptation time can be scary for any lover of books, but throughout the adapting process of Paper Towns, the fans were promised repeatedly by author John Green that the movie exceeded expectations. Author Walter Kirn
Two of John Green most famous novels, The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns, share a common theme which is 'literature'. The theme of literature and writing, especially in the plot around meeting Peter Van Houten, lends an element of metafiction to the book. One of the poems specifically referenced in Paper Towns, which gives insight into Margo Roth Spiegelman and provides Quentin with plenty to think about, is "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman, which comes from Leaves of Grass. In The Fault In
feelings of others especially after a strike of misfortune. Although the world is not perfect and life will never be fair, I'd hope the people around me would be compassionate as I would to them. As author John Green said, "The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive," Paper Towns. John Green is simply saying that forgiveness is an easy way to relieve the suffering created by burdens