And that’s not a bad thing to talk about with our kids. Q, Ben and Radar may not be popular, but they are friends. We see them following their interests and succeeding, even when corny. But more important, Paper Towns shows smart kids being smart, doing daring things. This novel can spur a discussion on a number of topics: death, suicide, revenge, acceptance, and forgiveness, and may even get some to open up Whitman. The thing about Margo Roth Spiegelman is that really all I could ever do was let her talk, and then when she stopped. Showing Jewish kids in a secular story can and will bring them to the table to talk about Jewish issues. But this is a book that smart Jewish readers should read. Section Two: When Margo decides to burst into his window in the middle of the night, she is just proving how adventurous and daring she is. Although both Margo and Q have Jewish names, the only time Judaism is mentioned is when Q thinks about saying Kaddish. Which, this is showing indirect characterization to both Margo Roth Spiegelman and Quentin Jacobsen. Paper Towns does not contain Jewish content. One night, she appears at his window asking for his help to play revenge pranks. Their journey is hilarious and heartfelt. The Summary of Paper Towns: In Miami, high school senior Quentin Jacobsen has been in love all his life with his mysterious, beautiful, and adventuresome neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman. The dialogue is smart and sophisticated and if for no other reason than to see what they will do next, the reader stays put. In Paper Towns, Green creates fully drawn band geeks, intellectuals and gamers.
The question is: does she want to be found? And if not, will she still be alive when they find her? With the help of his friends, Radar and Ben, as well as Margo’s friend, Lacy, Q takes the reader on a road trip that is unexpected, full of heart, and laugh-out-loud funny. She has left a series of cryptic and clever clues that include Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, the use of capitalization, and a place called Agloe. If he wants to fulfill his fantasy, he’s got to find her. In the morning, Q drags himself to school, with hopes of exploring his new and improved relationship, but Margo has disappeared. Now on very different paths (Q is an uber-clever nerd, while Margo lives in the popular zone), she shows up at his bedroom window in the middle of the night for a funfilled night of revenge, thrills, and creative pranks. Quentin, aka Q, has been in love with the beautiful Margo Roth Spiegelman since the two of them discovered a dead body in the park of their Orlando subdivision when they were nine years old. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.” This is high school senior Quentin Jacobsen, the protagonist of John Green’s newest novel, Paper Towns. Ages 12 up.“Margo always loved mysteries. Readers who can get past that will enjoy the edgy journey and off-road thinking. The title, which refers to unbuilt subdivisions and "copyright trap" towns that appear on maps but don't exist, unintentionally underscores the novel's weakness: both milquetoast Q and self-absorbed Margo are types, not fully dimensional characters. Q's sidekick, Radar, editor of a Wikipedia-like Web site, provides the most intelligent thinking and fuels many hilarious exchanges with Q. Margo's parents, inured to her extreme behavior, wash their hands, but Quentin thinks she's left him a clue in a highlighted volume of Leaves of Grass. She goes on crazy adventures you wouldn’t expect to be real. Just as suddenly, she disappears again, and the plot's considerable tension derives from Quentin's mission to find out if she's run away or committed suicide. She doesn’t like to stay in one place for a very long time. Quentin has loved Margo from not so afar (she lives next door), years after she ditched him for a cooler crowd. Weeks before graduating from their Orlando-area high school, Quentin Jacobsen's childhood best friend, Margo, reappears in his life, specifically at his window, commanding him to take her on an all-night, score-settling spree. The story is about a young man named Quentin (Q for short) Jacobson who has a crush on his neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman, an intelligent, mysterious girl who runs away from home. When Quentin Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman are nine years old, they find a dead man leaning against a tree. Green melds elements from his Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines the impossibly sophisticated but unattainable girl, and a life-altering road trip for another teen-pleasing read. Paper Towns, one of Green’s novels, is to be released as a film in 2015. John Greens Paper Towns commences with a prologue that introduces the reader to Q, the novels protagonist, and Margo.