This book is getting so interesting, Miranda invited Annemarie to her house and in their way, the Laughing Man called Annemarie "angel". "You" sends a second note to Miranda, she finds it in a bag of roles at Jimmy's, "you" asks her to write a true story in the letter and it says she can't show the letter to anyone. Miranda and Colin find out that Jimmy is keeping $2 bills in hid Fred Flintstone bank. Miranda's mother says that everyone has a "veil" that keeps us from seeing the big things in life and just makes us see the small things and we have to lift a corner of it to see the real world. Miranda starts wondering if you are born with a "veil" and if there are people who always see the big things, like "you". Miranda is starting to feel weird but good around Colin since their heads touched one day, she thinks that maybe Annemarie is feeling that too. Julia starts questioning Annemarie about her job at Jimmy's, she said she doesn't need the money and that Annemarie shouldn't be eating those sandwiches or drinking sodas. Julia goes to Jimmy's and tells everyone that their cheese isn't real cheese, Jimmy kicks her out of his shop. Sal's mom goes to Miranda's apartment with some potato chips and says that she misses Miranda. Richard's shoes are gone. After thanksgiving everyone is in the lunchroom because the a naked man is running around Brooklyn. While Miranda and Annemarie are talking, Annemarie just goes into space, Julia comes, tells Miranda to ignore what's happening and keeps talking until Annemarie is back in the conversation again, then she left. Julia calls Miranda an idiot, and she tells her that Annemarie was having a seizure because she has epilepsy, that's why she can't eat sandwiches or drink sodas. Miranda sees Sal and Marcus on her way home, Sal avoids Marcus, who ignored both of them. Annemarie tells Miranda that someone left her a rose, she refuses to think it was Colin. Miranda finds the third note in her coat and it had "proof": "3 p.m. today: Colin's knapsack. Christmas Day: Tesser well. April 27th: Studio TV-15. Marcus waves at Miranda instead of ignoring her and walks with her. They talk about time travel again and Julia gets in the conversation. The Laughing Man runs away from Marcus. One of Jimmy's rolls is missing and Miranda later finds the first proof, the missing roll at Colin's knapsack. Miranda and her mom discuss about how Miranda gave a sandwich to the Laughing Man. Richard wants to marry Miranda's mom. Jimmy thinks that Colin, Annemarie and Miranda stole his bank and he won't let them return to work so they write a letter explaining that they didn't stole it.
"Mom says each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world, like a bride wears on her wedding day, except this kind of veil is invisible" (Stead 71)
This quote explains what the veil is. I think that is pretty much like being blind from the heart. We don't realize so much that's going on in the world because our veil won't let us see it. We have to learn how to lift our veil to see everything clearly and not muffled. That way, when we look at the whole picture, we will understand things that we didn't get before. It is really important that you can find out how to do this yourself so you can be independent and so you can do good in life. Also you need to know when to lift it, when is it extremely necessary to lift it and what are the moments that would be better off with the veil on, so you can't see what's happening. All of this will help us be successful in life and it will help us find clarity and truth.
" 'Look. It's like every moment in time is a diamond sitting on this ring. Pretend the ring is really big, with diamonds all around, and each diamond is one moment. Got it?' " (Stead 102)
This is Julia explaining how time works. She says that each diamond chip in her ring is a moment and all of the moments are happening at the same time, so there is no past or present or future. If time travel does exist, and you will travel in time when you are older, you are technically already doing it, just that you don't know it yet because that hasn't happened to you yet. So, you can arrive before you left because if you leave 5 minutes after you say you'll leave and you return to the "present" 5 minutes after you said you'll leave, you would have already arrived even though the you that you feel, the one that was saying you'll leave, hasn't left yet. It is all complicated and hard to understand but if time doesn't really exist, then we should try to appreciate what we think is time. If time travel is possible, probably you are traveling through time right now, in the "future" so that's why you don't know it yet. This discussion has been showed all through the book, so I guess this is important in the story, Miranda doesn't get how time works, although Marcus and Julia have tried to explain it to her. i think that she isn't lifting her veil, or else, she would have understood already.
So many things happen at once! It is just so hard to stop reading this book. It keeps you thinking, what will happen next? what does this mean? why did she do this? So you have to keep reading in order to answer all of your questions. It is full of surprises, there are things that you would have never expected, like the fact that Annemarie has epilepsy! Since when? I think that Miranda won't understand time until the very end, because she is not getting any further in her understanding. I think that Colin has feelings for either Annemarie or Miranda, I just can't figure that out yet, maybe I already did but I don't know it. I hope that Julia and Annemarie solve their problems because I think that Julia needs attention and I think she is insecure and that's why she is "mean". Maybe if she has a friend she can count with, she would be nicer. I really, really hope that Jimmy sees that the kids didn't stole his bank and that he lets them go back to work, they really had fun in that shop. I think that after Miranda's mom thinks this through, she will accept Richard's proposal and marry him, that would make them both happy. I want to find out what happened with Richard's shoe, its weird that someone breaks into your house and just takes one shoe, not even a pair, just one. I am dying to know who "you" is. Now that there has been more talks about time travel, I'm starting to think that this "you" is a time traveler, I don't know, I just suppose. I am enjoying this book a lot because even though that the "main" topic is time travel and "you" and all that stuff, it also talks about friendship and the importance it has in life. I want to end this book so bad! There are so many mysteries I want to find the answer to. Guess I'll just have to keep reading...
Some People say $2 bills bring luck... Maybe this one will give me luck in answering all of my questions. I don't know... I'm just saying.
When you reach me is a book written by Rebecca Stead. It is about a girl named Miranda, who starts receiving mysterious letters from someone that she calls "you" who tells Miranda to write a letter to him/her. Miranda's mom has been practicing to enter the $2000 pyramid show with her boyfriend's and Miranda's help. Miranda complains about having to wait for Mom at Belle's so they decide to have a spare key in the fire hose. Miranda had a friend named Sal who also lived in her building but they are not longer friends. Miranda already started the letter to "you" the day Sal got punched, which was the day his friendship with Miranda ended (but Miranda didn't know that yet). Mom gets accepted at the show and they keep practicing. Everyday when miranda returns home from school, she has to walk past the "laughing man", a weird man who sleeps under Miranda's mailbox. Sal starts spending less time with Miranda so she makes a new friend called Annemarie, who was Julia's (a girl Miranda doesn't like, at all) best friend. Mom has already mastered the speed round in the show so they start to practice the winner's circle part, which is harder because there are no hand movements included. Miranda meets the boy who punched Sal, Marcus Heilbroner, and they have a conversation about time travel. Miranda and Annemarie meet Colin, who starts spending lunch with them and who got a job for the three of them making sandwiches at Jimmy's during lunch, Jimmy is creepy according to Miranda but Annemarie thinks that he is still nice. Friday afternoon, Miranda gets home and finds her door unlocked, which never happens and she goes to Sal's apartment, he told her that maybe she just forgot to lock the door but Mom later says that she did lock it, they go check the fire hose and find out that the key is gone. Monday morning, Miranda finds the first note, where "you" asks for the location of the key, which is weird because he/she already took the keys before asking for the location. Jimmy won't let Miranda make sandwiches because he says her "V-cuts" aren't good enough so she counts bread and makes hot chocolate.
"M,This is hard. Harder than I expected, even with your help. But I have been practicing, and my preparations go well. I am coming to save your friend's life, and my own.I ask two favors.First, you must write me a letter.Second, please remember to mention the location of your house key. The trip is a difficult one. I will not be myself when I reach you" (Stead 60)
This quote is the first note Miranda received from "you". This quote got me thinking a lot. Miranda received this note after her key had disappeared, she said that the situation happened backwards. Then I remembered to when Miranda was talking to Marcus about time travel, in the book that Miranda was reading, two ladies told the kids that they will return (to their current time period) five minutes before they left and that they will return to the patio. Marcus said that they were lying because the kids would have seen themselves running to the patio because it had already happened, that got Miranda confused and she didn't understand what Marcus meant. I chose this quote because it makes me think that "you" may be stuck in time, because he asked for the location after he took the key. Also, "you" said he is "coming" to save Miranda's friend's life and his own, which starts the question, how do you save your own life if you a re already dead? That is what I'm questioning, and I think that this quote is really important in the book because it may lead to the answers to every mystery in this book.
"For a long time, Colin was just this short kid who seemed to end up in my class every year." (Stead 54)
This quote are Miranda's thoughts about Colin. She says that she barely knew him and that suddenly, he was always with her and Annemarie in school. They were strangers and then, in a blink, they were friends. I liked this quote because it shows how everything in life changes so quickly without us even realizing it. We have to cherish every moment we have, because one day, it will be a memory. This quote also shows that we have to prepare ourselves for changes in our lives because when life hits you hard out of nowhere, you'll know how to react in order to be alright. Miranda and Annemarie were impacted when Colin started to spend time with them, at first they were confused, but they got used to it while the time passed and they created a new friendship, and thanks to that they found a job and they have a strange friendship with Jimmy. This also shows us that we don't have to judge someone by what they seem to be, because once you know them, they might end up being someone entirely different from what you had in mind. Like Colin, who seemed just the guy with a skateboard and ended up being friendly and someone you would like to spend time with. That also happened with Annemarie, Miranda just saw her as Julia's best friend until they got into a fight and Miranda got a chance to really know Annemarie and discovered that there was a lot about her that she didn't know before.
I'm really loving this book. It's one of the most interesting books I've ever read and it is just amazing. There is just one way to describe it, it is a page turner. It is almost impossible to stop reading, it keeps me wanting to read more and solve the unsolved mysteries. I think that Colin is going to start having a crush for either Annemarie or Miranda and that it will make situations awkward. I think that Jimmy might fire Miranda because she mentioned that her V-cuts are getting worst, while Annemarie's and Colin's are perfect. Mom will keep practicing, I know that, and I think that she will do really well in the contest and, probably, she will even win the $20,000 price. Also I think that Richard will propose to Mom and I think that she'll say yes. I really hope that Sal and Miranda solve their problems and be friends again because friends are very important in life and you shouldn't lose them because they will help you in life when you need them, specially when you are only child, you need friends to support you, because your true friends will love you always, no matter what. I can't wait to keep reading, I am really enjoying this book, and I think that I'm going to like it a lot.
I loved reading this book! I couldn't wait to finish it, and now I did. Franny is stronger now, she can't walk yet, but she's better. Fleabrain took her on more adventures like shrinking to his size so she can know his world and he took her through all the 7 wonders of the world in one night. It's Franny's birthday and she is inviting some friends over, like her best friend Walter Walter, Katy and Teresa (the girl who thought she was contagious). Fleabrain and Franny shrink Nurse Olivegarten temporally but they regret it later when they discover there's no instant cure for it. She had a little fight with Fleabrain and they stop talking and spending time together. Fleabrain tries to reach Franny with his letters but she isn't responding to any of them. One day Franny starts to miss Fleabrain and she wants to be his friend again. They become friends again but they don't talk as much as they did before. Franny tries to go back to her old school but they say she can't assist anymore because she's in a wheelchair and the school is not designed for wheelchairs. Alf is scratching a lot and Franny's parents suspect he has fleas and they are about to put a flea spray that kills all fleas and Franny is worried about Fleabrain dying because of the spray, but luckily he doesn't die. At the end, Franny goes to the front of her old school and protests because she can't assist there. Now everyone understands that Franny isn't contagious and that they can get close to her without catching Polio as well. Some scientists finally discover a cure for Polio.
"Spring had always meant hope to Franny, for good times and imagined beginnings." (Rocklin 183)
This quote is really important in the book. It shows how Franny is starting to feel like she can do anything she can to feel better and recover soon. Before she had just wished that she got better, now she has hope and she is sure that she will be better really soon and that she can go back to do the things she did before she caught Polio. This happened when Franny knew that some scientist found a vaccine that would help cure Polio and all of Franny's family was happy about that. Unfortunately, the vaccine had to be tested in order to be able to sell it and for people to use it without having any colateral damage later. However, it was too late now, for Franny to take the vaccine, there was nothing she could do at this point. everyone was upset that the cure wasn't found before so Franny could get cured faster. Franny got a little mad because she felt that she was never going to get better, but she had hope and she knew, even though sometimes she thought she couldn't, that she would get better. Her family tried to help her by telling her that the exercises that Nurse Olivegarten made her do to get better. It is important in Franny's recovery that her family is there for her when she needs them and that they will help her understand what she's going through.
"He was happy for her. Oh, he was so happy for her. He was happy" (Rocklin 224)
This quote is when Francine and Fleabrain fight. Fleabrain missed Franny very much and he missed the moments he spent with her. He wrote a lot of letters to her, hoping for an answer but he didn't get one, Franny didn't answered to his many letters, she was sad. Fleabrain wasn't angry, he just missed her, she was a true friend to him. They were so close, it hurt having to lose contact with someone that close to you, specially when you care about that person, you care about him/her so much, that even though you two are in a fight, you want the other person to be happy and you wish them the best, even when you don't admit you do. That's how important friendship is, your true friends will always treat you well and they will always care for you, if they aren't your true friends they wont'c care if you are mad with them because they don't value your friendship, unlike true friends who will always appreciate you for who you are inside. Those are the ones you have to stick with because those are the ones that will never let you down, those friends are the ones YOU can't lose and you have to take care of them because they have value in your life.
I chose to include this specific picture because it relates to Franny's situation. she is ill, but if there's a "we" in her life, she will get better, as it explains in the picture. That "we" is the support all of us need to move on and go forward.
I'm really glad about how the book ended. Franny is stronger than ever. She has a strong character and that's what matters in life. Franny has showed me that you don't have to give up and that even in the toughest moments in your life, you have to keep your chin up and, the most important, never lose hope because with hope you will find a solution to the problems you thought were impossible to solve. At the end, Franny and Fleabrain reconcile and they go back to being friends again. I really hope that Franny fully recovers from Polio and that she can go back to normal as she wanted. I'm also glad that medicine has advanced because now it is less probable that someone with Polio dies or never fully recovers than back to the time when Franny lived. I think that medicine is one of the biggest progresses that our world has been successful with. Something I learned with this book is that friendship can make a stormy weather feel like a calm sunset in the sea shore. It also taught me that I have to value my friends because one day I may lose them, and I will not like how that feels. I really recommend this book because it teaches you many things, like the importance of friendship and little moments.
Spider Charlotte's web dedicated to her Wilbur, her pig friend.
Fleabrain Loves Franny is a book wrote by Joanne Rocklin, it's about a girl named Franny Katzenback who lives in Pittsburgh and has Polio, in 1952. She starts receiving notes from a flea that lives in Alf's tail (Alf is Franny's dog) named Fleabrain, he is like her Charlotte from Charlotte's Web (Franny's favorite book). Franny returned to her house after being in treatment for her illness and when she finally meets Fleabrain, they go on marvelous adventures together. Nurse Olivegarten was Franny's nurse who was sure that her treatment will make Franny walk again and get rid of her wheelchair but Franny thinks that the treatment is painful and she doesn't like to do it. The first adventure Franny and Fleabrain had was when Fleabrain took Franny in a magical horse ride because Franny had never tried a ride in a horse before, and she couldn't try it now because of Polio but Fleabrain used his FB Saliva #1 to make Franny able to ride a horse in the middle of a night through the sky. Nurse Olivegarten always wanted Franny to show everyone her progress but franny wasn't comfortable with that, at least not under that kind of pressure, but she did insist her sister Min to let her walk a bit, even though she couldn't do it.
The previous quote shows a moment when Franny is feeling sad. 'Loneliness hurt', that's what Franny felt, loneliness, before she had Polio she had many friends, and they played with her outside and they were kind. Everything changed when she went back home, they didn't played with her anymore, she couldn't play the things they played, she was in a wheelchair now and she was far from walking and running. Some of her old friends said that she was contagious so if they touched her, they would have Polio too. Fleabrain wanted to end that loneliness and that's why he used magic to make Franny happy, but he didn't realized that that's not the only thing she needed to reencounter the joy in her life. Franny also felt bad because of her sister, who had always been the "saint" one, but Franny knew that she was no saint and that she was just pretending to be good to Franny because she was sick. But later she discovers that Min really cared about her and although she wasn't saint she still cared a lot about her younger sister. Sister Ed, she was what Franny missed the most from the Children's Hospital. She was a kind nurse that motivated Franny and she helped her through hard times during her recovery, it was hard for both them having to say goodbye after such memorable days at the hospital. Now, Franny's motivation was Fleabrain, he was her friend and he was the one who will help her cure.
"She'd wiggled one left toe, but in real life! She was looking right at it, wiggling away. Her toe bobbed above the water, then under, then up again, like a dancing toe-fish. Or a puppet. And she, Franny, was the puppeteer!" (Rocklin 79)
Yay! Franny moved all by herself, just a toe, but something is better than nothing. This event happened when Franny was in the bathtub and she was taking a normal bath with the help of her nurse until she got a call and left Franny in the water. She started to imagine how would it be if she could actually move her legs by herself without braces and without supporters. She tried calling Nurse Olivegarten but she couldn't hear over her phone call. This was a moment that brought hope to Franny. Hope that she would finally be able to walk, run and play just like old times, when nobody thought she was contagious and her friends played with her. This was hope that one day soon, she would be a normal girl. A toe, such a little part of our body, and yet, moving it means a lot. "Enjoy the little things in life for one day you'll look back and realize they were big things" (Unknown), moving a toe may sound insignificance to the majority of us, but what we don't realize is that when you lose the ability to control your body, moving a toe, that insignificant toe, will be the best thing ever because you are controlling it, you are moving it with your brain, the same brain that couldn't move anything before, it moved a toe, your toe. Imagine how joyful Franny was when this happened, she will appreciate this moment forever, it was the start of something big, it was the start of recovery.
I can't wait to keep reading! I really want Franny to be able to play again and go back to her school, I hope that she recovers soon. Fleabrain has been a great friend to Franny and she has really gotten better since she met him, but he really needs to see that Franny doesn't need fantasies, she needs her old reality back. I think that Franny is soon going to be able to do the things she did before and I think that Fleabrain will still be her friend but they won't spend as much time together anymore because Franny will have other things to do now that she is back to normal. I think that her friends who treated her badly will apologize to her, but that isn't so easy to forgive, specially when it was about something as serious as Polio. But Franny is a good friend so she will forgive them and they will go back to what was like before and now everyone will appreciate what they have. But, I can't fill my head with expectations about what's going to happen, the only way of knowing for sure what comes next is to keep reading the book until I'm done with it.
The book has finally come to an end. Jonas found his friends playing a war game on a holiday and he tries to stop them from playing it and Asher gets mad at him, but it's helpless, they can't understand what war really is. The next day, The giver explained Jonas what happened ten years ago with the last Receiver, Rosemary, he said that after she saw loss, she was released and the memories she had were set free. Jonas learned what release was when he watched a tape of his father releasing a baby twin, he realized that the baby was killed and he was angry at his dad. The giver tried to explain that nobody knew that release was murder, and that's why they were ok with it. Jonas stayed with The Giver that night and they plan something so the memories are all set free. The plan is this: at the Ceremony in December, Jonas will sneak out of his dwelling at night and will go to the Annex where The Giver will be waiting for him with some food and supplies, then Jonas will go to elsewhere in his bicycle while everybody goes to the ceremony, The Giver will place some if Jonas' clothes beside the river so everyone will think he drowned, when Jonas reaches the edge of elsewhere and crosses it, all the memories he had will be set free and everyone in the community will have them, so The giver must stay there to help everyone handle all the pain. The next day, when Jonas goes home and finds out that Gabe will be released so he leaves that night to be able to save him, he grabs his father's bicycle and the leftovers from the family units' dinners. He goes to elsewhere, where he has to hide from searching planes and manage to survive and keep Gabe alive, he gives him strength with happy memories. By the time he reaches the snowy part of elsewhere, he starts feeling weak, but then he found a sled and he sled down a hill just like in his first memory, he reached the edge of elsewhere safe and with Gabe and he sets all his memories free, he finds a home where he heard music for the first time and he believes that maybe, he heard music from far away, from the place he had left.
"Jonas looked at her. She was so lovely. For a fleeting instant he thought he would like nothing better than to ride peacefully along the river path, laughing and talking with his gentle female friend. But he knew such times had been taken from him now. He shook his head. After a moment his two friends turned and went to their bikes. He watched as they rode away" (Lowry 134)
The previous quote shows how Jonas' life has changed since he became the new Receiver. He started seeing all the colors and he started feeling. He was able to feel because he stopped taking his stirring pills and he had been feeling for four months. When Fiona asked if he wanted to go on a ride beside the river, he wanted to say yes, but he knew he couldn't because now he had feelings for her. If Jonas went with Fiona in the ride, it wouldn't have been the same as before, because before, Jonas saw Fiona a s his friend and he felt good around her but now, he started to like her, and the created tension and made Jonas feel awkward around her. But this this quote means that Jonas' life changed completely, he now has a different perspective of life, and he wasn't blind anymore, he felt things, he saw things and he knew things that no one else did, he saw the world and he wasn't going back to living a fake life. I think that what Jonas did was the right thing to do because that way he's proving that he can't be controlled or manipulated.
"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared" (Lowry 153)
I chose this quote because I think it shows a lot about Jonas' relationship with The Giver. After The Giver tells this to Jonas, he says that he is now sharing the memories with him and that he doesn't have to handle the pain by all by himself. It shows how they both care about each other, how they both love each other and they want the other to be safe. I think this is important because caring for each other is what makes a family grow in a healthy way. In some way, Jonas and The Giver have become family, specially because they don't know who their blood relatives are so they need someone they can trust and rely on. This quote shows the importance of sharing because by sharing, you help other people and you help yourself, it also shows the importance of love because with love you can create so much, you can create magical things that feel nice and they give you strength and courage to keep going in your life. If you have someone to truly love, and someone who loves you, you can't give up.
It's so good to have finished the book! I'm glad I liked this book because if I hadn't liked it, it would probably have been really boring for me to read it and answer the questions I was asked about it. I think that Lois Lowry is a very good writer because the way she wrote this book shows us how creative she is, I mean, she created a whole world that isn't like in fairytales, where there's magic or somewhere where the impossible happens, she created a more realistic community that is more similar to our actual world than the other worlds created. This book has many messages to give us, one of them is that we have to fight for what we think is right, Jonas almost died trying to save his community, he almost starved, froze, but he was brave, and he survived, and he was alive. I would really recommend this book because it's a really good book and once you start it, you just want to keep going until you reach the end without even realizing. I think that if anyone is going to read this book, read it before you watch the movie, that way, you will create a different world in your head, you will imagine differently and that will make the book even more special for you.
I decided to include the trailer of the movie here.
Yay! The book finally came to its end! The mystery is finally solved. The everlasting road trip lasted 21 hours at the end. Everything was going fine until they almost died, they were in the road and there was a gigantic cow in front of them, Ben saved all of them by turning the steering wheel right, avoiding a crash with the cow. When they arrived to New York, they had little trouble finding Agloe but at the end they found Agloe's only building, it was an abandoned farm house. They went inside and found Margo in a desk writing something, at the begging she was a little mean with them, but then she softened up when she was alone with Quentin. She explained everything to him, she had wrote a story when they were little, the story was about ten-year-old-Margo being in love with ten-year-old-Quentin because he was brave. That night was Quentin's and Margo's first kiss. She didn't agreed in going back to Orlando, instead she would go to New York and travel. I'm happy for Quentin because he finally found Margo, but I'll admit, I was a little disappointed when Margo said she wasn't returning.
"But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists" (Green 299)
I'm shocked! Seriously, this book contains so many important things that we need in our life. I've learned so much reading this, and I bet that every other book John Green has written it's the same, full of wise stuff. Imagination could be a very powerful weapon, even if it seems insignificant. Fascists don't know what diversity is, they just want everything to be as they want it to be. So, imagination, is creating your own things so fascism its destroyed because everybody gets to decide how they live so they don't live according to another person's desires. I feel like Quentin says many things that are true and he is very intelligent.
"It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in" (Green 304)
Ok, let me explain this, to "these things" he means "I'll write you" or "I'll call you" and he says that those phrases keeps them (Margo and him) from falling apart because they both like each other and they might not see each other for a long time. Sometimes, we need to say those things to know that we won't loose the person that's going away entirely, so we try to keep communication. That's something humans do, they hold on to tight to persons so when they leave it's to hard for us to let go. And then, when the moment arrives, we go into darkness and we feel lonely, but we have to see the others who are by our side as well. It was hard for Quentin to let margo go her own way when what he wanted was for her to build a future with him and they'd return together to Orlando to continue their lives where they started living them. We are always looking for a last hug and a last kiss to keep something with us.
I can't believe it! I actually finished the book! I really liked it. Paper Towns was a really incredible book. I enjoyed it until the last moment, although I was a little disappointed by how the story ends because it's not what I expected, I wanted a happier ending, I wanted margo to go with Q and the rest that went to look for her. I wish that Margo hadn't been so mean at first with them, but that's how I would have wanted the story to be. There's nothing I can do about it, just imagine how it would have been the way I wanted it to be. Well, the point is, I really liked reading it. It wasn't like other books I've read, where I don't actually enjoy, if I'm about to read something, I would want to enjoy it because reading a book that you don't enjoy it's not reading. I like the way John Green writes because his stories are inspired by real life stories and situations that many people can relate themselves to. I would really like to read a book that's similar to this one. I wonder if John Green writes his books based on things that really happened. In my opinion John Green is a really good author that I would recommend.
I decided to include the Paper Towns movie trailer in this last post, so... here it is.
In this chapters of the book Quentin, Ben and Radar continue finding the clues Margo left. After Ben discovered that the phrase highlighted in green was an instruction, they went to Margo's house to unscrew her doors. When they did, they didn't found anything, which made Quentin feel upset. Some days passed until Quentin decided he would try Margo's instructions in his doors, this time he found a little paper with this address: 8328 bartlesville Avenue. He looked it up and found a strange building 34.6 miles away so he plans to skip class the next day with Ben and Radar to go to this building, which was an abandoned mall, they break a window to get in but they just found 3 rooms connected bu TROLL HOLES; a bookstore, an office with calendars in every desk (all of them in February except one, which was in June), and a room that seemed to be a souvenir shop. They found nothing but a phrase in the wall that said:
You will go to the paper towns and never come back
When prom night arrives, Radar takes Angela while Quentin goes back to the building to see if he can find something and this time, he does. He found Margo's nail polish and blanket, which made him discover that Margo is not dead. He stayed there until Ben called him while he was drunk and told him he was his designated driver. He went to prom's afterparty and when he went to the bathroom, he found Lacey in the bathtub, he went in and then Lacey felt asleep, later Quentin took both Lacey and Ben to their homes.
"This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead" (Green 140)
This quote shows how scared were Quentin, Ben and Radar when they found the building Margo had sent them to. It was all covered with dust and it was old. There were old doors that didn't open. The windows were covered, and no on e was there. That was the place that took Quentin to the conclusion that Margo was dead because he couldn't find her sooner. I wouldn't like to be in a place like that because, like Quentin, it would remind me of loneliness and dead. Now that's SCARY!
" "No one will ever be the new Margo," I Said. "Anyway, you have what she really wants. People like you. People think you're cuter" (Green 184)
I decided to include this quote because it shows the different personalities of the different characters. It shows how sweet and motivational Quentin (Quentin is the one talking, he is the "I", since he is the one who tells the story) can be with someone that's feeling sad and ashamed, people like Quentin are really nice friends. It shows that Margo is unique and no one would ever be like her and no one would ever replace her. It shows that Becca (the "she" in the quote) wants what the others have, she is not original and she needs to be like the others to feel accepted. It also shows that people like Lacey (the "you"), they think she's pretty and that she is a nice person. In this quote Quentin is speaking to Lacey when they're in the bathtub when she starts complaining about the things that Beca has done to her, and Quentin tries to cheer her up. I like how this little amount of words can say much about some of the characters in this story.
As I read, the story gets better and better. I realized Quentin won't stop looking for Margo never. He will continue looking until he finds her, because he is crazy in love with her! I think that after prom night, everybody needed some rest, so after that, I think that Quentin will want to keep looking for Margo but his friends tell him that she's gone and that he should stop looking for herbecause maybe she will never appear. But Quentin decides not to listen to his friends and goes look for more clues. Anyway, that's not so right because Radar and Ben are unlikely to fight with Quentin, maybe they will help him after all. I can't wait to see what happens next! I'm really enjoying this book.
"Mom says each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world, like a bride wears on her wedding day, except this kind of veil is invisible" (Stead 71)
