![]() Every reader will have favourite moments. Music lovers will appreciate the playlist at the end of the notes. Using a poem of Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’ as a loose framework, and including references to TS Eliot, Emily Dickinson and Greek mythology, it is witty and frequently hilarious. Summarising the events of this novel gives little clue to its essential nature and richness. ![]() Enlisting the help of his friends Radar and Ben, and Margo’s friend Lacey, Q embarks on a search for Margo which fast becomes obsessive, culminating in a twenty-three hour drive at breakneck speed from Florida to a paper town called Agloe in New York. However, the clues that she leaves for Q suggest that the Margo that everyone thinks they know, may be far from the person Margo really is, and Q fears for her life. Shortly after, Margo disappears, not for the first time. One memorable night, Margo appears at Q’s window and insists he accompany her on an evening of revenge after her boyfriend has dumped her in favour of her best friend. Friends in childhood, Margo and Q now move in different circles: Margo is reckless, popular and ‘cool’, while Quentin is clever and nerdish, hanging round the school band’s practice room, listening to them despite being tone deaf. Plot Quentin Jacobsen (‘Q’ to his mates) is in his last year of high school in Orlando, Florida. Paper Towns was published in 2008, four years before The Fault in Our Stars. She has eclectic taste in music, likes breaking into abandoned buildings and theme parks, and… is missing. Margo Roth Spiegelman isn't your typical Jessica Simpson/Alba/Biel girl next door, though. ![]() ![]() Introduction In Paper Towns, eighteen-year-old Quentin Jacobson is in love with the girl next door, Margo Roth Spiegelman. Identity, dissatisfaction, friendship, exploration, literature, writing, home, perseverance, admiration Ĭurriculum areas and key learning outcomesĪCEEN001, ACEEN008, ACEEN009, ACEEN024, ACEEN027, ACEEN049, ACELA1553, ACELA1557, ACELT1771, ACELT1635, ACELT1812 The Grass Part 3: The Vessel o Title o Characters o Ideas and Themes Introduction o Plot o Structure o Prologue Part 1. These notes may be reproduced free of charge for use and study within schools but they may not be reproduced (either in whole or in part) and offered for commercial sale. PAM MACINTYRE PhD updated by Jacqui Barton School Library JournalĬurriculum Areas and Key Learning Outcomes: Instead, the teen thinks deeper and harder – about the beautiful and terrifying ways we can and cannot know those we love. He skirts the stock coming of-age character arc – Quentin’s eventual bravery is not the revelation. Green builds tension through both the twists of the active plot and the gravitas of the subject. Michael Cart, Booklist The mystery of Margo – her disappearance and her personhood – is fascinating, cleverly constructed, and profoundly moving. In addition, he’s a superb stylist, with a voice perfectly matched to his amusing, illuminating material. That he brings it off is testimony to the fact that he is not only clever and wonderfully witty but also deeply thoughtful and insightful. Yet, if anything, the thematic stakes are higher here, as Green ponders the interconnectedness of imagination and perception, of mirrors and windows, of illusion and reality. Paper Town By John Green Book Summary: There are echoes of Green’s award-winning Looking for Alaska (2005): a lovely, eccentric girl a mystery that begs to be solved by clever, quirky teens and telling quotations (from Leaves of Grass, this time) beautifully integrated into the plot.
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