Quentin's Discovery In The Book Paper Towns By Quentin Jacobsen
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The novel Paper Towns is a tale about an adventure a high school senior named Quentin Jacobsen goes through to find his childhood friend, Margo Roth Spielgman. Quentin, also known as “Q”, and Margo are childhood friends until they discover a dead man’s body; however, as they grow up they grow apart due to this discovery.
The book begins at Winter Park High School in Orlando, Florida introducing Quentin’s best friends, Radar and Ben. Prom is approaching and Q’s friends have decided they want to attend but Q opposes the thought of prom. That night Margo appears in Quentin’s bedroom window in the middle of the night. She asks him to accompany her to play pranks on several people. He gets his mom’s minivan and helps her with her eleven part plan to get revenge on multiple people using items they had picked up at the store. Through the night Quentin’s love for Margo reenergized; however, Margo disappears the next day.…show more content… He tells Detective Otis Warren everything he knows and the detective assures him that Margo will return because she has ran away several times. Ben and Radar come to Q’s house and he tells his friends what happened; they agree to help find Margo. She leaves Q a series of clues and he comes across numerous misleading clues. Making himself increasingly pensive, he tries to piece the clues together. He eventually decides that the only way to find Margo is to understand who she is. Throughout the adventure to find Margo, he notices Margo’s repetitive use of the phrase “paper towns”. He analyzes the phrase and figures out that Margo is in Algoe, New