Found

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.

Margo

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 her because 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.

Crazy in Love - Beyoncé ft. Jay-Z

Gone

In this chapters of the book, Margo and Quentin finish their crazy adventure. They go to Sea World and then they returned to their houses at 5:00 or so. Later at school, Margo doesn't show up, at first everyone thought it was the other times Margo had ran away, they thought she would come back. But, a few days later, Quentin starts to find clues he thinks Margo left for him. Ben and Radar helped him look around Margo's room for clues she might have left. They found a poetry book "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman with lots of blue highlights and one phrase highlighted in green:

Unscrew the locks from the doors!

Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!

Quentin couldn't understand. Lacey will go to prom with Ben, who later figures out the phrase were instructions.

"She let go then, but kept looking at me, taking step after step backward.She raised her eyebrows finally, and smiled, and I believed the smile. I watched her climb up a tree and then lift herself onto the roof outside of her second-floor bedroom window. She jimmied her window open and crawled inside" (Green 81) 

 Poor Quentin, if only he knew that was going to be the last time he saw Margo before she disappeared. This quote shows how much Quentin cares about Margo, and how much he is in love with her. We didn't stop looking at her until she was inside her bedroom. I wish Margo realized how much Quentin loved her, maybe, if she had, she wouldn't have escaped. It would be really nice to have someone love you the way Quentin loves Margo. I think that if Quentin would have known that was the last time he would see Margo maybe he would have told her how he feels.

"It became a weekend of reading, or trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me. I could never get anywhere with the lines, but i kept thinking about them anyway, because I didn't want to disappoint her. She wanted me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the bread crumb trail until it dead-ended into her" (Green 117)

Quentin must be tired! All that reading but still he doesn't know what it meant. This happened before Ben realized that the phrase was actually something Margo was telling Quentin what to do. He was really losing his mind trying to figure out what it meant, he read the whole poem like a hundred times. I wouldn't like to feel this way because you feel like you will never find a n answer to what you are questioning. If I was in his position, I think I would have had a headache.


"Now we're stressed out" is a fragment of the song "Stressed Out" by Twenty One Pilots.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_uzF-Tdw0g That's the link to the full song.






This book is so catching! Once you start reading it, you can't stop. I was wrong in my last prediction because I thought that Quentin and his friends were going to be part of Margo's group, but that didn't happened because Margo was gone. But Lacey started spending tim with Ben since they're going to prom together. I think that in the next chapters of the book, Quentin will unscrew Margo's door from its jambs and he will find something that will lead to another clue. If thats the las clue, I think he's gonna find her, if it's not the last clue, I think he will keep looking until he finds something.
 

Agloe

Finally! Quentin (Q, as Margo used to call him) discovered where Margo is, but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Before that happened, Q, Radar, Ben and Lacey decide to go to the mini mall again, to look for more clues they think Margo left, where they run into Gus (the guard from Sun Trust building) and he was with two other guys, it turns out they had always explored places like the mini mall with Margo who always wrote something in her black notebook. On Friday Q finished looking for Margo in every pseudivision (a term Q's mom uses to describe places like paper towns) there was in Florida and there was no sign of her. Later Radar and Q went to the mini mall again and this time they found a map. They pinpointed the places that had been pinpointed before but some of the locations were ripped off so their names couldn't be read. The night before graduation Q looked the zip code near the Catskill Park in New York in Omnictionary (a website that Radar uses to look things up), he found a response that said:

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.

He looked up the full article and it said that there was only 1 building in Agloe and the population was zero, but in an anonymous user comment said:

fyi, whoever Edits this-the Population of agloe Will actually be One until may 29th at Noon.

That's Margo's capitalization, looks like Q has finally found her. The next day, Q's graduation gift results to be a car, so he, Radar, Ben and Lacey skip graduation to go on a 23 hours road trip to find Margo before she's gone for good. No body has clothes exept their dresses and gowns, the only things they have are half of a sneakers, 212 beers that were for graduation, printed directions to Agloe, wintergreen gum, a pencil, tissue, $35, a BP card, and more stuff from Lacey's purse. During the first 3 hours, Ben has wanted to pee but they won't stop until hour 4, so they continue their trip with just 4 stops during the whole it and Ben wanting to pee.

"Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a precious thing. She was a girl" (Green 199) 

Excuse me? Of course Margo could've never be a miracle or, even worst, a THING! She's just a girl,a person, just like everyone else in tis world, even though we don't always realize that. There are people that are so much like you, but there are others who are completely different as well. But here's the thing, different does NOT mean worst. Yes, there are people who hurt other people, but they're still people. No matter what you do, even if it's good or bad, you are a person. It was about time that Q realized that Margo was a common girl. I'm not saying Q is bad for saying she was a miracle, actually, I'm glad he finally realized she wasn't one. Maybe meeting her was a miracle, but not her. I wouldn't like for someone to think of me as a miracle, even though I would like of someone thought that meeting me was a miracle. I wish Margo knew this.

"This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again" (Green 228)

Applause for Q! So few words, yet so meaningful. Reading this book, I've realized that every character has something important to say, something significant and needed. This quote happened the last day of school when Quentin was leaving his school and he realized that he would never do many things that he did in high school,like waiting for Radar and Ben to finish band practice, or see what a mess his locker was. This quote showed me that you have to cherish every moment because one day, you will never get to do that again. Never. So you have to appreciate every moment and the people that lived them with you, before that moment, becomes a memory. It's like Margo said, you don't wanna look back to your life and say, I graduated from school and college and got perfect grades and live a perfect but boring life, you want to look back and find precious moments you could share, because those moments, are the ones that will always live with you.

I'm so excited to know what happens next in the going-to-Agloe-to-find-Margo road trip! It seems like this group of friends is willing to do anything for their dear Margo, from eating out of a BP card to pass all speed limits. Maybe supporting Ben wanting to pee seemed the hardest part of their trip, but who knows, maybe worst things are around the corner. Now, what do I predict will happen next? Well, since I will finish with the book soon, I predict that after the long trip to Agloe, they arrive soon enough before they loose Margo. Q speaks with her and convinces her to go back with him and maybe they'll even end together as I had already predicted in my previous blogs. Lacey will talk to her too and Margo will forget her for not telling about Jase's relationship with Becca. Well, the only way to find out, is to keep reading!