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be able to open the door when Quentin and Margo are running. After the success of the mission, they are headed to the Orlando City skyscraper. When they are at
the top of the building, they look at the Orlando City and discuss how “fake” the city is. Margo relates the city to “Paper Town.”
After took one night revenge with Quentin, Margo disappears. Her parents tell Quentin that she is run away. After Margo’s run away, Quentin
Mentality changes and becomes extremely preoccupied with thought about Margo regarding her safety and whereabouts. Then one day, he found the clues that
Margo left for him. The clues brought him to an adventure to find Margo. Quentin Jacobson is Margo neighbor. He has average height and has
typical blue eyes. Margo and Quentin haven’t been very close friends as they grew up, but Quentin is still willing to help Margo despite all the trouble he and
his friends have to go through. This can also prove Quentin’s determined mind as the main character who takes on the responsibility to solve the conflict.
Margo’s reasons for the run away and everything about her personality revealed when Quentin finds Margo. Margo’s reasons for run away and relating
herself to paper towns and being a paper girl reveals Margo’s inner self and her longings. In a way, she compares herself to being a paper material to explain the
hidden and mysterious side of her and the truth that lies within herself that only she knows.
3.2 The adventure of Quentin to find Margo
One month before their high school graduation, Margo has devised a revenge mission on her friends who she feels have hurt her over the course of her
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high school career. She convinces Quentin to help her. The next day after the revenges, Margo doesnot show up to school.
After she has been missing for three days, her parents call a detective. Margo has run away four times before in the past. She’s been known to leave
clues.
“She’s been known to leave a bit of bread crumb trail; is that right?”
“Clues,” Mr. Spiegelmansaid, standing up now. The detective had place the folder on the table, and
Margo’s dad leaned forward to look at it with him. “Clues everywhere. The day she ran away to
Mississippi, she ate alphabet soup and left exactly four letters in her soup bowl: an M, an I, an S, and a
P. she was disappointed when we didn’t piece it together, although as I told her when she finally
returned: ‘How can we find you when all we know
is Mississippi? It’s a big state, Margo”
The detective cleared his throat. “And she left Minnie Mouse on her bed when she spent a night
inside Disney World.” Jhon Green, 2015:102
After the detectiveand Margo’s parents went, Quentin and his parents talk about how an irresponsible parents they are,leaving their daughter to find her
own life. Later Ben and Radar visit Quentin. While they are at Quentin’sDue to the fact that Quentin was the last person to see Margo, he is questioner by
detective. However, soon after his conversation with detective, Quentin notices a poster of Woody Guthrie taped to the back of the shade.
I happened to glance out my window, and I saw immediately that someone-the detective, I guessed-
lowered the shade in Margo’s room. But I wasn’t seeing the shade. Instead, I was seeing a black-and-
white poster, taped to the back of the shade. In the photograph, a man stands, his shoulders slightly
slumped, staring ahead. A cigarette dangles out of his mouth. A guitar is slung over his shoulder, and the
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guitar is painted with the words THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS. Jhon Green, 2015:108
Quentin thinks it’s one of the clues that Margo leave for him. It’s approved by his best friend Radar and Ben.
Radar opened the window and stuck his head out, swiveling it around. “It sure seems she left this for
you, though, Q. I mean, does she know anyone else who could see this window?” I shook my head no.
After a moment, Ben added, “The way he’s staring at us it’s like, ‘pay attention to me.’ And his head like
that, you know? It’s not like he’s standing on stage; it’s like he’s standing in a doorway or something.”
Jhon Green, 2015:109
Ben Starling is Quentin’s best friend since childhood and is the first chair clarinet player. His mental mind is filled with ridiculous ideas and facts but
sometimes they come in handy because they’re so simple. On the other hand, Ben’s other half of the brain is always filled with thoughts about hot girls. He is
also physically tall and usually worn baggy clothes which emphasizes his simple mind and personality.
Radar is another Quentin’s best friend. He is exceptionally smart and gifted the ability to use technology. Therefore, he is always thinking about various
technologies and finds ways to invent them in order to incorporate into his program Omnictionary. Seeming like a nerd, Radar doesn’t look like one for he
wears contact lenses and is quite tall after growing six more inches during high school.
According to the poster that they saw earlier, Quentin thinks that they have to come inside of Margo’s room. So they wait for Margo’s mom and dad to
leave her house. As soon as her parents leave her house, Quentin, Ben, and Radar
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bribe her little sister, Ruthie, to let them in, so that they can search through her room.They soon discover that the poster leads them to a song called Walt
Whitmans Niece. This then leads them to Walt Whitmans poem, Song of Myself, which is a part of his poetry collection, Leaves of Grass. In her room,
Margo provides a copy of the poem with highlighted sections.
There were several quotes highlighted in blue, all from the epically long poem known as “Song of
Myself.” And there were two lines from the poem that were highlighted in green:
Unscrew the locks from the doors Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs Jhon
Green, 2015:116
Quentin believes that Margo has left the highlighted sections as clues for him to find her.Thus, Quentin spends countless days and nights reading and re-
reading the poem to search for clues of her where about.One day, when Quentin driving with Radar and Ben they discuss about the clue suddenly, Ben giving
Quentin an advice to unhinge the door.
“It’s not poetry. It’s not metaphor. It’s instructions.
We are supposed to go to Margo’s room and unscrew the lock from the door and unscrew the door itself
from its jamb.”Jhon Green, 2015:125
With the advice from Ben, they went to Margo’s and start to unhinge the door. But there’s nothing on the door.
A few days later, Quentin started a little depressed about prom, because Quentin hate prom. Quentin thought about the clue and he noticed the clue was
mine. The doors were mine. So, he started to unhinge his door. When the door started to fall, he saw a tiny piece of paper flutter down from the door. It was a
sliver of newspaper the Orlando Sentinel, half straight edges and half ripped. In
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the paper was write “do Sentinel May 6,2.” The day she’d left. The message was clearly from her because Quentin recognized her handwriting “8328 bartlesville
Avenue.” Then he went to the computer and looked up a map of 8328 Bartlesville Avenue. It was 34.6 miles away, way the hell out Colonial Drive almost to the
town of Christmas, Florida. The next day, Quentin decides to go to the address with Radar and Ben.
After driving about one hour they arrived at the address. They found a strip mall wavering in the bright distance. It’s a place that called Pseudovision; a
subdivision abandoned before it could be completed.It was a place where someone would go to die. They all go to the building and find the “troll hole.”
There, they find a mysterious writing that says,
Once you go to paper town, there is no leaving it
.Jhon Green, 2015:149
Thethree friends are freaked out and decide to leave the building. Eventually, the clues lead Quentin to believe that Margo may be possibly hiding
out or buried in one of the many abandoned subdivision projects or pseudovisions around Orlando.Margo says it as Paper town.
Quentin searches abandoned subdivisions in internet and managed to compile a list of its. Then, he drove out of town on colonial and arriving at one of
pseudovision Grove Point Acres. From close up, he could see that Grove Point Acres was more finished than it initially appeared. He looked to evidence she had
been there footprints or something written in the dirt or some memento. But he seemedto be the first person on there. No tent. No campfire. No Margo.
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Quentin drove to the other pseudovision called Holly Meadows. He drove past Holly Meadows three times before he finally found it everything in the
area was oak trees and ranch land. He ended up his searching for today. The next day, Quentin lies to his parents that he’s going to prom and
decides to continue his search. He went to the next pseudovision called Quail Hollow. Unlike the previous pseudovisions, someone was keeping up Quail
Hollow. No houses had been built, but the lots were marked with surveying stakes, and the grass was freshly mown. In the center, there’s lake that for some
reason, drained. He’s feeling thankful that there’s nothing like body, or something related to Margo. Quentin finished his searching at there. Then, hegoes to the
minimall and while he was there, he discovered Margo’s blanket, nail polish, andtravel guide books. Also, multiple clues show up proving that Margo was at
the minimall such as the smell of Margo’s shampoo and skin lotion on the blanket. While Quentin is still there, he starts to grasp the meaning of the poem
and starts to question may different sides that Margo has when she’s with different people.
After searching through the books, Quentin falls asleep but gets awakened by Ben’s phone call asking him to come pick him up from Becca’s
party. At Becca’s party, everyone was drunk and acting hyper especially Ben. While the party chaos is taking place, Quentin and Becca talk about Margo and
who she really is and how she can’t be replaced. The next day, Quentin called Ben and Radar to inform them about the discoveries that he made at the minimall and
the boys gather to discuss numerous subjects.
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After visiting the minimall with Ben and Radar, Quentin plans to go again. But for this time with LaceyPemberton. However, when they visit,
someone is inside the mini mall. It is Gus and his friends. Gus andMargo know each other because Gus was a senior when Margo was a freshman. They tell
stories about how Margo used to visit the minimall often to “explore” the building by taking photos, notes, and just looking at the dead building. They tell Quentin
that she takes notes in her notebook every time when she visits and Lacey also brings back memories of Margo writing down notes in her notebook.
The next day, Quentin is discovering some locations that Margo pointed in the map. But Ben calls and says that his parents won’t be home for few days
because they were out of town, trying to buy the Black Santas. Thus he opens a party and at the party, Ben and Quentin talks about how to kiss a girl because Ben
says that he sucks at kissing with Lacey. Quentin gives Ben few tips about kissing when Lacey listens to their conversation. But they soon gather up in the living
room and talks about stuffs that are going around them. When Quentin going back home, right before he is about to sleep, he stared at the wall and saw something
And every time I opened my eyes, I saw where each map had been - the four holes marking the rectangle,
and the pinholes seemingly randomly distributed inside the rectangle.
A map.With plotted point” Jhon Green, 2015:217.
He discovers that Margo left locations in the map by pinning them with pins. The next day, Quentin and his friends head to the minimall to find Margo’s
map in the office. However, unlike how Quentin imagined, the points are not as specific as he thought, which makes it harder to decipher the locations that Margo
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was trying to point out. The final exam weeks are coming up,Quentin and his friends are busy studying. However, Ben and Lacey come up with the theory that
Margowill show up at graduation to get attention
Ben showed up then. “I swear to God, Q, Lacey and I were up on IM until two o’clock in the morning
playing on that site, thelongwayround? And having now plotted every single possible trip that Margo
could have taken between Orlando and those five points, I realize I was wrong all this time. She’s not in
Orlando. Radar’s right. She’s coming back here for graduation day.”
“Why?” “The timing is perfect. To drive from Orlando to
New York to the mountains to Chicago to Los Angeles back to Orlando is like exactly a twenty-thee-
day trip. Plus, it’s a retarded joke, but it’s a Margo joke. You make everyone think you offed yourself
with an air of mystery so that everyone pays attention. And then right as all the attention starts to
go away, you show up at graduation.” Jhon Green, 2015:224-225
However Quentin doesn’t believe that Margo needs attention.When the final was over, Quentin cleans his locker while everybody went home. He realizes
that it is the last time he would be at school because the next day is Quentin’s graduation day. For his graduation present from his parents, Quentin gets a Ford
minivan. Before it turns noon, Quentin searches up some locations in the Omnictionary. While searching the locations, Quentin finds out that Agloe, New
York was also called “paper towns.”
Agloe, New York, is a fictitious village created by the Esso company in the early 1930s and inserted into
tourist maps as a copyright trap, or paper town. Jhon Green, 2015:235
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Every Omnictionary entry contains subpages where you can view all the edits ever made to the page and any discussion by Omnictionary members about it. The
Agloe page hadn’t been edited by anyone in almost a year, but there was one recent comment on the talk page by an anonymous user.
Fyi, whoever Edits this-the Population of agloe Will actually be One until may 29
th
at noon. Jhon Green, 2015:236
Quentin realizes that this is Margo’s writing because of its unusual capitalization. It is written fifteen days before so Quentin starts to have more faith that she is
alive. He calls up all his friends because heonly has 24 hours left and the trip to Agloe is going to take about 23 hours or more. But because it is graduation day,
he visits school, tells his parents that he is going to miss graduation. He leaves with his friends on a road trip to Agloe.
Quentin and his friends are all in Quentin’s minivan driving and they’re preparing for their first stop at the gas station. As they’re preparing a list of items
to buy, they’re alsocalculating the maximum amount of time that they can takeat the stop in order to reach Agloe as scheduled or asearly as possible. Soon, they
pull into the gas station andeveryone rushes out to do their job of shopping at the storeand to fill the gas. Everyone is moving like lightning andafter exactly six
minutes as they had planned, they leavethe gas station. As they’re driving again, they take the supplies that they purchased and categorize theminto order. While
categorizing the purchases, they talk about the food they purchased, and Radar and Benwear the new t-shirts they bought over their graduation gown.
After exciting Florida, they arrive in South Carolina where they’re greatly affected by the traffic. Due to the fact traffic and the ride getting boring,
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Quentin and Radar make up games to play along the journey such as “That Guy Is a Gigolo,” and “metaphyicalispy.” Soon, Ben and Lacey falls asleep and Quentin
describes his minivan like a car by making comparisons like the passenger seat being a living room, and the back row being a first bedroom, and etc. After one
hour, Quentin and Radar are talking about their twitches after continuous drinking of Bluefin which is supposed to keep them awake. Their char continues until
arriving at the second gas stop. Once again, everyone gets off and follows the same routine as before.
About half way through the trip, Quentin and Ben start to get into a minor argument about finding Margo and as Quentin is about to curst at Ben, he
sees two cows in the way while he’s driving. Quentin believes that he’s going to die with all his friends because there was no way to stop the car, but Ben takes
control of the wheel and turns to the side avoiding hitting the cows and in fact, saves everyone. As a consequence of almost an accident, Quentin gets injured and
the glass bottles where drinks and beer were all cracked. Anyways, they continue to travel and decide to name Quentin’s car “The Dreidel” considering the almost
car accident they had earlier. Finally, they arrive at Agloe and follow a path and as soon as Lacey
discovers Margo’s car, everyone runs to the deserted barn where the car is parked. Margo is found to be writing in her mysterious black notebook and she acts
surprised to see them all of a sudden. Then, Margo and Quentin start to talk but their frustration lead to minor quarrel but they start to talk things out. Margo
explains to Quentin what the black notebook is and Margo tells Quentin the story
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that she wrote in fifth grade. Also, Margo tells Quentin the real reason why she left earlier than planned and how she’s a paper girl and the town of Orlando isn’t a
paper town.
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4. CONCLUSION AND SUGESTION 4.1